Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

As a business owner, you understand the value of project management. You need to be able to organize your team, assign tasks to people with the right skill sets, and prioritize your projects and clients. However, knowing how to meet demand and increase the profitability of your business can seem overwhelming. In order to maximize the available capacity of your organization, you need capacity planning.

Change likes to keep me on my toes, so I rely on agile project management software that's nimble enough to roll with every plot twist. I've learned the hard way that slapping an "Agile" sticker on a slow, click-heavy platform is like adding racing stripes to a bicycle - it feels faster, yet you're pedalling just as hard. When priorities shuffle or a sprint needs resizing, I want to make the changes and keep going - no extra hoops, no head-scratching.

This month, our Product team rolled up their sleeves, dove into your feedback, and transformed your requests into powerful new features and improvements. From game-changing updates to subtle enhancements, here’s everything you need to know about what’s fresh and upgraded in Teamwork.com!

In the world of client work, it’s no surprise that your people are your biggest asset. But when you're juggling multiple projects, clients, and timelines, it can be hard to know if you’re using that asset wisely. Who has the right skillset to lead this new initiative? Who’s certified in Adobe After Effects? Do we have enough React developers available next week?

No matter which methodology project managers subscribe to, I've found we need to organize and execute tasks proactively and efficiently. In my experience, you don’t just wake up one day with all facets of a project ready to roll. It takes planning, planning, and more planning. As I've managed increasingly complex projects, I've seen how project management tools make a manager’s job easier and more productive, and a project’s planning stage gets a major boost from project planning tools.

There are little things we do at work every day, over and over. While it may only take a couple of seconds each time, if you repeat it dozens of times, the task wastes time — and time is money. I've watched small teams waste hours each week on repetitive admin tasks that could easily be automated. This is why it’s crucial to streamline repetitive tasks by automating them.

A project timeline is a visual representation of the key milestones and deadlines for a project. It helps keep everyone on track and organized. Aligning the assorted tasks so they tie up neatly and ensuring everyone’s on the same page at all times is hard work. Creating accurate project estimates can be just as hard. I've seen this firsthand in my experience managing complex projects.