When you’re heads-down working on a huge project, it’s easy to forget that the smallest things can sometimes have the biggest impact on your success. Let’s say you’re working for NASA and your job is to get a rocket to the moon (no biggie, right...
Sit through enough meetings and you’ll start to think their only purpose is to book another meeting. While your main responsibility is to always make sure you’re planning (and attending) effective meetings, it’s what you do after the meeting that...
The number one thing every project manager needs to level up their skills is experience. And number two? A good project management book. There’s nothing “new” about running a project. Sure, the goals and specific issues will be different in each...
There’s a reason startups are obsessed with “community” and influencers tell you to find your “tribe”. Pretty much everything is made better when you bring together a group of the right people. Even software. Redmine is the most popular open source...
In a study conducted by Stanford University Professor Behnam Tabrizi, it was found that almost 75 percent of cross-functional teams are dysfunctional. Dysfunctional was categorised as unable to meet 3 of the 5 criteria they tested: keeping on...
When you’re trying to grow your business it’s easy to get CATV—customer acquisition tunnel vision. Acquiring new customers is sexy. It’s exciting. And it makes you feel good because more people want what you’ve made. But what happens when those...
There’s a saying in the music industry that the easiest way to ruin a song is to keep working on it. Add enough effects, extra guitar parts, or more cowbell, and you’ll turn Woody Guthrie into Guns N’ Roses. Knowing when a piece of art is “done...
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many parents to work from home with no time to adapt or prepare. We recently wrote about how to minimize distractions in your workplace but add children and closed schools to that equation and the odds are stacked...
It’s safe to say that most teams live and die by their ability to work together. As The Economist writes: “In modern business, collaboration is next to godliness.” Whether you’re collaborating on a website redesign, working on a video presentation...
There’s no denying that we’re living through uncertain times. The spread of COVID-19 has forced more people than ever to adapt to working from home. And along with relearning how to communicate and collaborate when you’re not in the office one...