Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

November 2020

Choosing the Best Project Management Methodology (& Types)

Project management is a dynamic approach to ensuring your work gets done effectively and efficiently. Gone are the rigid and time-consuming processes of days of old. We’ve moved to more flexible and customizable approaches customized to fit a team’s individual qualifications. Choosing the right management methodology is just as essential to your project’s success as having the right team in place. It means the difference between clear communication and meeting deadlines.

Multiple Accounts in the Bitrix24 Desktop App

In case you have several Bitrix24 accounts, cloud or on-premise ones, you can work in all of them in the Bitrix24 Desktop app. You can add as many accounts to the Desktop app as you need by simply clicking on the plus button and authorize using the account address, login and password. Once it's done, you can have access to all your accounts from inside the Desktop app, easily switch between accounts, receive notifications and messages.

The Best Agile Project Management Tools To Use In 2021 & Beyond

You and your team need great software to manage your work. But great project management software needs to keep up not only with your team but also with market changes. Over the past five years, a new method of project management, called Agile, has responded to the demand for a more adaptive and evolutionary project management process. It does little good to adopt the Agile method while still using a software that bogs down or complicates your projects.

Our Top Black Friday and Cyber Monday SaaS Deals

With black Friday and cyber Monday around the corner and many SaaS deals already active our team decided to put together a list of the best SaaS deals that you and your businesses cannot live without this coming year. To save our readers the time we only selected the highest quality deals both in terms of value and services offered ! Happy Holidays and Enjoy the Savings!

Is Upwork the best place for finding freelancers?

Upwork is a reliable platform for professionals in fields such as copywriting, web development, graphic design, and many more. And many clients in Upwork find a freelancer(s) to take up and complete various business projects. Upwork is not only a marketplace for posting jobs, but it is also a site that allows freelancers to find projects, send proposals, and connect with clients across the world.

Asana tips: When and how to use subtasks

In order to help teams gain as much clarity as possible, you may have noticed that tasks in Asana can only have one assignee. That way, you always know exactly who is driving the work—or as we like to say, who’s doing what by when. But sometimes, a task has multiple components, or multiple contributors. You can’t add another assignee to the same task—but you can create subtasks.

New: Connect distributed teams at scale

What does it mean to be connected in a time when teams and tools are more distributed than ever? According to research[1], today’s enterprise workers switch between an average of 10 apps 25 times per day to execute work, resulting in unconnected communication, reduced efficiency, and duplicative work. In other words, instead of effectively moving work forward, many are stuck context switching and moving work back and forth between tools in a struggle to collaborate effectively.

15 Useful Alternatives to Hubstuff

Are you searching for an alternative to Hubstaff? Or do you want alternative software that can help with standard integration and time tracking? The good news is there’re tons of time and expense tracking tools available in the market today. But the challenge is choosing the one best suitable for your needs. In this guide, you will get in-depth information about 15 useful alternatives to Hubstaff.

Connect External Calendar via CalDav

Bitrix24 Calendar is an effective time management and team communication tool, but you may also have other external calendars that you use, and the option to connect other external calendars to Bitrix24 Calendar to handle all of them from a single platform would give a good chance to manage all events in one place. Now Bitrix24 offers you this cool option.

Tehnopol Science and Business Park Accelerates Growth with Scoro

Tehnopol Science and Business Park is the largest research campus and business incubator in the Baltics, as well as home to well-respected tech companies such as Cybernetica, Starship Technologies and Skype. Its mission is to empower start-ups and SMEs to accelerate their growth and Tehnopol has always used multiple digital solutions to achieve this. However, in 2019 Tehnopol began to outgrow its existing toolset.

November Update: Better Pipeline And Purchases

In this update, we’re introducing a couple of handy ways of reducing manual work in your sales process. Keep your sales pipeline moving with new options to track opportunities by sales stages. After closing, easily compile multiple purchase documents of the quoted third-party services with minimal effort. Take a closer look.

What Is a Work Breakdown Structure in Project Management?

Work breakdown structure is a good way to get any project off the ground and can often determine the success of a project. That’s why project managers need to learn how to master them. This article will help you understand the work breakdown structure and create one on your own. Project management is by no means easy.

Scoro Adds French to Its Business Management Platform

We’re delighted to announce that in addition to Spanish, we’ve also made Scoro available in French. With the growing interest in our business management software from French-speaking countries, we wanted to respond to this demand and improve the experience for both current and future clients. Companies in more than 50+ countries use Scoro’s software daily – signaling a growing demand from companies eager to manage their business in a single place.

Bitrix24 Calendar Synchronization with Android Devices

Now the synchronization process between Bitrix24 Calendar and Android devices is simpler and much easier. No additional configurations are needed, simply scan the automatically generated QD code with your phone camera or a special app to have all the meetings and calendar events synchronized two-way.

How to Create a Project Schedule

Project scheduling is a critical and crucial part of project management and planning. It’s the yellow-brick-road that, when followed, will lead you to the gleaming project closure right on time. While project scheduling can feel like a daunting task, it’s an important step to project management and planning and will keep your project from quickly falling off the rails. But don’t worry.

Monitask is now compatible with Jira

We are glad to inform you about our innovation, which we have made thanks to you and for you. Monitask is now compatible with Jira. We have implemented the ability to connect your favorite time tracker to your project management system by adding a special plugin to Atlassian Marketplace – now you can add it to Jira.

How to Rock Your First Week With nTask?

You searched the market to find the best project management tool out there, and it led to giving nTask a shot. Let us just say, great choice (by the way)! However, now that you have created your profile, how do you get the most out of nTask? To be honest, it’s not that difficult. The project management tool is laced with simplicity all over through easy maneuverability options, multiple tools, and a brand-spanking UI.

Jira Software: New Issue View - Demo Den - October 2020

Matthew Canham, a Product Manager on the Jira Cloud Issue Experience Team runs through the new issue view. Check out this demo to learn more about features we have recently released for the new issue view, configurations options for admins, and a sneak peek into what’s coming next! Thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe to our channel!

Asana tips: Everything you need to know about Workload

How much clarity do you have into your team’s workload? If you answered “not a lot,” you’re not alone. In fact, 1 in 4 businesses say they either have no process in place or rely on “gut feel” to distribute work. As a result, a whopping 80% of employees report feeling overworked and close to burning out.

Bitrix24 Tasks and Projects Update

We are happy to inform you that we've updated Tasks and Projects in your Bitrix24! Following the latest update, there have been several changes and improvements to let you work with tasks easily and more effectively: Tasks counters The counters algorithm has been improved to show precise numbers of tasks in real time. The number of counters correspond to the number of changes and new activities, no mistakes there, the math is now perfect.

Mobile Tasks and Projects Update

With the latest update, we've added several ways to work with mobile tasks and projects even more effectively. Now there is an option to filter tasks by project. Simply update your mobile app to start using this option in your mobile tasks. Now the project icon appears right near the task name directly inside the task list. Each time you click on the icon, there will open the project with all the tasks within it.

Bitrix24 Integration with Miro

Bitrix24 is constantly adding new integrations to the Marketplace to improve your work experience. Today we are glad to inform you that now Bitrix24 integrates with Miro Boards. Miro Boards presents an entire toolkit for sharing ideas, brainstorming, planning that lets teams build story and customer journey maps, mind maps, wireframing, roadmap or sprint planning, retros and more.