When you discuss a contract, it can make everyone’s eyes glaze over fast. Most people are far more interested in the meat of the deal: how you’ll execute the project and the payoff. However, thorough marketing contracts are vital to an agency’s success. Proper contracts between your marketing agency and the client, independent contractors, and subcontractors protect all parties, outline expectations, and establish boundaries.
We’ve all been there—the wild chase to get teammates to log their time. Whether you distribute an email mid-week, comb through individual timesheets and send one-off direct messages, or post an announcement on a broader channel, chasing teammates to log their time is a big annoyance. Enter Time Reminders!
Are you looking beyond Jira for your agency’s project management software? Sure, Jira offers some distinct advantages. It’s an agile project management tool that gives users a way to communicate and customize workflows and complete scrum projects. It also offers several helpful integrations. But (you knew there was going to be a “but,” right?), it’s hard to learn how to use it and the interface seems outdated and confusing.
To succeed as an agency — or a business of any kind — you need a clear vision of what success looks like. Is success more revenue? More clients? Higher customer satisfaction? A Super Bowl ad? All of the above? Key performance indicators (KPIs) are a time-tested way to measure performance and the success that strong performance generates. Tracking KPIs is also a part of project management best practices.
50 million users can’t be wrong: Trello is a great way to manage work and projects… until it isn’t. Launched in 2011, Trello took the project management scene by storm with a refreshingly simple approach to keeping track of work. And for small teams and lightweight workflows, Trello still has a lot to offer. The only problem? Teams and projects aren’t always small and lightweight.
Researchers expect growth in the DevOps market to reach a whopping $25.5 billion by 2028, so now is a great time to learn what it takes to execute an efficient DevOps project. Understanding how to build a DevOps pipeline is a crucial first step. If pipelines exist to move things forward, a DevOps pipeline is about moving software projects forward from one process to the next.
"Currently, DevOps is more like a philosophical movement, not yet a precise collection of practices, descriptive or prescriptive." Like abstract art or that indie movie your quirky friend made you watch, the DevOps methodology is one that is largely open to interpretation. Nevertheless, there is still a range of principles and best practices that DevOps engineers and project managers need to be aware of.
We’ve all heard it before: “Failing to plan is planning to fail.” When Alan Lakein said this back in the 1970s, he may not have been talking specifically about media planning — but the shoe absolutely fits. Media planning (the process of determining when, where, and how frequently to run ads for an organization across which media and channels) is nothing if not a bit chaotic. There are so many parts and pieces going into simply creating the media.
Not a fan of meetings? You aren’t the only one. Lencioni is right: In many cases, meetings are both boring and unnecessary — a double whammy. They don’t necessarily help your agency accomplish its goals and drive growth. That’s why we recommend replacing all of your meetings (okay, maybe not all, but most of them) with a project management app instead. A smooth project management system helps your agency work efficiently and effectively.
Nothing can slow down the work you do for clients more than the approval process. Whether you’re going back and forth between various iterations because feedback was unclear, or chasing down a client to get final sign-off, it can be a huge time waste that often results in missed deadlines or less-than-stellar work. Enter proofs, the latest (and most requested!) feature we’re excited to roll out at Teamwork.
