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Process documentation 101: What is it, the benefits, and how to start

What does the disintegration of a $193 million satellite and your company’s last failed project have in common? If we had to guess, the answer is a failure within process documentation. Your business isn’t going to accidentally destroy a satellite – we hope – because you failed to specify whether measurements were in the metric system. No, seriously – that happened.

The definitive guide to website project management

Website projects can flourish or flounder, depending on how effectively they are managed. Proper project management (supported by the right website project management software) can keep things running smoothly. At the same time, an absence of due processes can be a recipe for 404s, buggy designs, unhappy clients, and just about every other type of gremlin imaginable. This ultimate guide will walk you through how to specifically plan and manage website projects.

How to be less distracted in a distracting world

With every passing moment, the world seems to become more and more distracted. Between the influx of cell phone notifications and the never-ending news cycle, when do we find peace and serenity in our day-to-day life? Distractions can be frustrating, but the truth is, we are actually hardwired for them. We've all faced countless distractions from the time we were born up until this very moment.

March 2022 Version Update: Work Management Improvements | Scoro

Our March update focuses on improving Scoro’s work management features, aiming to reduce manual work, streamline processes, and enhance workload transparency to support our users even further when planning and executing their day-to-day activities. Here’s what’s new at Scoro.

Clearing clutter: How to cut out organizational debris from your business

Endless documentation, mass email threads, stringent approval processes, meetings, and more meetings. Welcome to the world of organizational clutter. With the rise in remote and hybrid work models, these processes should have taken a back seat. But that unfortunately isn't the case. A Harvard Business School study analyzing the communication patterns of employees in 21,500 companies found that we work longer days and attend more meetings than ever before.

Nordic Agency Perfectly Blend Operations and Creative with Scoro | Scoro

Aava & Bang is a communications and marketing agency with over 50 employees located in Finland. Founded in 2005, the company mainly focuses on sustainable growth marketing, communications and advertising, and provides coaching and recruitment services for companies establishing new marketing functions within their business.

How to Export Data from Basecamp

Time to move on from Basecamp? Here’s how you can move your projects easily. Basecamp was an early pioneer in online collaboration and remains a popular option, especially amongst service-based teams. While Basecamp’s benefits generally come in the form of ease of use and predictable, flat pricing, continuing with Basecamp can be challenging for many teams because.

How to Develop Leadership Skills (The Right Way)

Leadership skills are important for anyone who wants to be successful. Especially, as a manager, these skills will help you to reach your goals, and those of your team. However, how can you effectively develop leadership skills? Is there a guidebook to follow? Some type of IKEA-build-your-leadership-skills manual? Let’s find out! For starters, can we explain what is leadership with an exclusive concept? Are all leaders the same? Is leadership set in stone? No, no, and no.

15 Best Quotation Tools To Kick-Start Your Projects | Scoro

It used to be that there was an app for everything, but nowadays there are often hundreds of tools offering to solve your problem. We’re bombarded with options, which makes it nearly impossible to feel confident in your decision. And when it comes to quotation software, it’s no different. This is why it’s so important to consider whether you’re looking for a point solution, or whether a more holistic approach would be more time- and cost-effective.

Steering cross-functional teams towards success with project management skills

In the 1950s, when computers were still seen as complex calculators, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance conducted a study on the impact computers would have on businesses in the future. Interestingly, the company's CEO set up an unusual team for the study - comprising employees from multiple departments, each of whom saw great potential for computers in insurance.