Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Mallol Arquitectos, founded four decades ago, is the biggest architecture firm in Panama and Central America. The company and its 140 talented employees are well known for their professional tradition, experience in projects at any scale, and culture of innovation.

Have you ever come across the phrase "it is all in the smaller steps that add up to the bigger things?" Well, the same ideology can be applied to Agile Development. Rather than having a project go on for years, why not break it down into smaller releases, or "sprints"? In a sprint, projects are broken down into chunks of work or iterations, which can be worked on for short, repeatable phases or working cycles Here's how agile development is going to help you improve your business agility.

Scoro is, no doubt, one of the most comprehensive work management software available. It’s often praised for the interlinkage of all features and data, intuitive interface, and high customizability, enabling every business to find their ideal workflow. But a product is only as powerful as its users. And we genuinely want our customers to know the best ways of using our product.

It doesn’t matter how much time you spend planning a project, creating proposals, or talking to your client—if you don’t get your project cost estimation right, all of your hard work will be for nothing. Project cost estimations help you predict how much you should charge a client for an upcoming project. But if you get it wrong, you’re suddenly tied to a project that doesn’t make your agency a profit and wastes valuable team resources.

When a company grows quickly, it’s hard for teams to stay aligned. In today’s remote work environment, people require an increasing number of technologies to do their jobs effectively, but often lack a central place to coordinate work. As a result, the average person spends 60% of their time on work that’s about work—like writing status updates and sitting through alignment meetings—rather than on the strategic work they were hired to do.

Our January update focuses on several long-awaited changes and brand-new features to improve Scoro’s resource management capabilities and provide you with an even better overview of how your team’s time is used. In addition, there’s an update to our Google Calendar integration – we know you’ve been looking forward to it. Here’s what’s new in Scoro.

The new Financials application was released with OneDesk’s December 2021 update and is currently in Beta. This application is for organizations who wish to handle finances surrounding their projects, tickets, and tasks within OneDesk. The Financials application can showcase features of your items such as planned and actual cost, work, forecast revenue/expenditure, and more. Additionally, the Financials application supports cost and billing calculations.

With technological innovation accelerating faster than ever—and the pandemic entering a new phase—CIOs have never faced more uncertainty and complexity. That’s why we’ve partnered with Caspian Studios to sponsor Season 3 of the CIO Classified podcast. CIO Classified is a podcast for CIOs, decision-makers, and technology leaders that want to push their business forward and stay on the cutting edge.