The Drum recently caught up with Fred Krieger, founder and chief executive of Scoro to discuss the business benefits for firms to hire a chief time officer, and how to fight the weapons of mass distraction that proliferate in many firms. Fred also shared the findings from a recent survey Scoro carried out with its marketing and creative agency customers. He explains: “We asked them to tell us what their operations were like before Scoro, and then what they are like now.

Project management might feel like an internal affair, but it’s really all about the client. Client feedback should be encouraged at every stage of the process to enable your teams to deliver the best projects. Here, we’ll take a deep dive into the role of client feedback in successful projects. We’ll explore why feedback is so important, discuss how to respond to negative feedback, and provide some best practice tips to help you collaborate more effectively with your clients.

Putting your finger on exactly what makes a great creative team can be surprisingly complex. Of course, creativity is a must, but having a team full of creatives with no standardized way of working or leadership can quickly lead to chaos. In this blog post, we’re going to look at how digital agencies and businesses can harness the creativity of their teams.

When managing projects with Scoro, there’s really nothing you Gantt do (was that too much?). With this update, we took our users’ feedback on board, improving the Gantt chart even further and tweaking the chart usability to fit various workflows. See what we’ve been up to.

Today, we’re excited to announce that Scoro is now available in German. As with other language options in Scoro, the German translation is available to both new and existing customers anywhere in the world. German isn’t the only language we’ve added to Scoro in the past year. Clients in 60+ countries trust Scoro on a daily basis, so we feel it’s important to support multiple languages.

Creativity is a funny thing. Creative people need the freedom to be able to come up with concepts and develop their ideas. But too much freedom can be a bad thing. The truth is that even the most out-of-the-box creative projects require firm and structured management if you want to get the most from the team responsible. In this blog post, we’re going to deep dive into the whys, wherefores, and how-tos of creative team management.

As we all know, COVID-19 has had a seismic impact on how just about every industry approaches the work they do. When the pandemic first took hold, many businesses were left floundering, desperately trying to figure out not only how to continue working, but how to do so effectively. The digital project management tools that we have relied on to get us through this extended period of unrest and remote working have been indispensable.

The Gantt chart is one of the most enduring project management tools in history, owing mainly to its versatility, ease of use, and wide scope of application. In fact, a recent survey reported that for 45% of project team members, it is their most used software feature, while for 22% of respondents in a similar survey, it is the most desired project management tool.

“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.” – Nelson Mandela Just as the original term ‘milestone’ denotes a marker indicating distance traveled, so milestones in project represent a task or activity completed so far. But they are actually far more useful and versatile than that. In this post, we define project milestones, and explore why they’re an essential part of the project management process.

As the popular maxim goes, “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” Nowhere is this truer than in the creation of a project plan. And, as training organization PM4DEV explains, “a project can only be successful if the success criteria were defined from the start.” Without a plan, you can’t define or measure the scope of the project or its success.