At the core of project management is a simple idea: Know what you want to build, the steps you need to take to get there, and how long each one will take to complete. Sounds easy enough right? But as any seasoned project manager will tell you...
One of the hardest things about running any project is dealing with the messy middle. You might have a vision of what things should look like when you’re done, and a good idea of where you are now. But getting there? It’s safe to say even the best...
What happens when a new user signs up for your product? If you’re like most companies, you might send out a few half-hearted emails or give a quick ‘tip tour’ the first time they log in. But other than that, you think the tool speaks for itself...
How did Google grow from 40 to 88,000 employees and $100+ billion in global revenue? Sure, their killer products, ubiquitous search engine, and cloud services played a huge role. But they also had a not-so-secret, secret weapon at their disposal...
“Unless we have a purpose there is no reason why individuals should try to cooperate together at all or why anyone should try to organize them,” wrote legendary management consultant Lyndall F. Urwick in the 1964 issue of Harvard Business Review...
Now more than ever, it’s clear that the defining driver of the online economy is personal data. Giants like Facebook and Google have built billion-dollar businesses on knowing what you want to see and giving advertisers access to that information...
You’ve got a great product. You’ve beat the odds, listened to your users, planned a killer product launch, and have thousands of potential customers clamoring to get their hands on your latest thing. Then all of a sudden, Jeff from sales stands...
It’s every project owner’s greatest fear. You spent months grueling to build a product you think your customers will love. Your dreams are filled with TechCrunch features and top spots on Product Hunt. The big day arrives. You flip the switch, and...
The humble meeting gets a bad rap. Like email, Slack, and smartphones, meetings were never intended to take over every minute of our waking lives. But somehow they have. Look at anyone’s calendar who has multiple projects on the go (i.e. pretty...
Cloud apps are indispensable tools today, as they allow you to take your work everywhere there’s an internet connection and to free up space on your computer’s hard drives. When teams are working on the same project (or ones that influence each...