Content marketing does plenty for your organization. It pushes your site higher in the search engine ranks, pulls in traffic, educates and builds trust with your readers, and hopefully leads to them buying from you (and staying loyal into the future). But there are plenty of moving parts involved with producing just one perfect piece of content — let alone several in a week. This is where a content calendar comes in handy. Your content calendar can be as simple or complex as you need.

Project Managers are presented with some challenging tasks which can hinder the success of the project. Some of the most prevalent challenges that keep project managers on the ball involve making sure the project is on track, within the assigned budget, keeping up with the project's pace, and managing resources.

As we continue our focus on enhancing the reporting functionality throughout Teamwork this quarter, we’re delighted to introduce the first of three Planned vs Actual Reports — the Planned vs Actual Milestones Report. The aim of this new report is to give you an understanding of the actual status of your Milestones by comparing the original due dates with your current due or completed dates. With this view, you can quickly identify how a project is performing against your plan.

Whether you’re onboarding a new tool within an organization or using an existing tool, it’s critical for your team to get the maximum use out of it. However, it’s just as important to ensure your team is using it as effectively and efficiently as possible. We know that many project management tools can be limited in their functionality and others may be too feature-heavy and it can be a little unclear on where to focus within the product to gain the most value.

Searching for great virtual management software? Managing a virtual environment is not easy. For starters, you need to monitor things like resource distribution, security, and backup. And without a dedicated platform, it can be challenging to know the current status of any virtual machine on your network. That’s why you need virtual management tools. But with hundreds of apps out there, which one should you choose?

Trying to manage a project with multiple moving parts can feel like herding cats. Aligning the assorted tasks so they tie up neatly and ensuring everyone’s on the same page at all times is hard work. Enter the project manager’s best friend: a project timeline. A project timeline allows you to bulk schedule tasks so that you can see what needs to be done when and keep an eye on the overall timeline of a project.

Workflow automation is the process of simplifying your business processes and making them easier to manage. It can help you streamline your repetitive tasks while helping you focus on the important things. In other words, you can do actual work instead of toiling away on administrative chores.

Despite all of the changes to the workplace last year, one thing hasn’t changed—employees are still spending 60% of their time on work about work. These activities, like searching for information or chasing status updates, take time away from meaningful, strategic work that moves your organization forward. In 2018, we introduced Portfolios to help teams reduce work about work and organize their most important strategic initiatives with project portfolio management.

The scene: You’re working on a task when a question comes up. “Ask the PM,” says your co-worker. But which PM are they talking about? Depending on your company or the project, it could refer to the program or the product manager. But what’s the difference between them? However similar the titles might seem — these roles are not universal and can change at each organization.

In today’s technology-driven world, the consolidation of information and processes is key to business success. The more insights you have about your company, the better you can identify opportunities and bottlenecks in your business as soon as they appear and react accordingly. However, the constant addition of new processes and systems in growing businesses can make it difficult to harness company data.

You asked so we delivered. Yes — Scoro’s Gantt chart is finally here. For almost a decade, Scoro’s been working tirelessly to build the world’s most holistic business management software. With hundreds of updates behind us, we’re excited to finally add the missing piece you’ve all been waiting for – Scoro’s Gantt chart. The first real-time Gantt chart on Vimeo.

The Gantt chart can be a pivotal instrument to ensure your project’s success… when used correctly. That’s why it’s imperative to choose the right tool for your business – so you don’t end up with just another expensive and unused tool in your toolkit. But with so many different solutions on the market, choosing the best one can get overwhelming quickly.

Starting February 8th, 2021, we are rolling out an updated Monitask dashboard. We have a lot of new features coming up in the upcoming months but we are kicking things off with a refreshed dashboard. Please note, that most functionality is identical to the old view. We’ve tried to only make cosmetic changes and keep transitioning to a new version simpler for you and your employees.

Employees could spend more than the allotted time of a project, a time that’s supposed to be well spent on other projects. Needless to say, that, being able to account for time and every tiny bit of detail concerning a project forms the rationale for clients to give you more work. This article focuses on product management, task management, easy organization of your team’s tasks and workload.

In theory, the world of integrations is designed to make our life easier. By bringing systems together, teammates can share information more quickly, and managers can have more oversight over performance, deadlines, and budgets. But what happens when this individual software and system integrations become too unwieldy or complicated to manage?

A common problem that companies experience is a gap between sales and order fulfillment. For companies that have separate sales teams and fulfillment teams, this gap can be even bigger. No matter what type of industry your company is in, there is a need to quickly fulfill orders while giving the customer what they are expecting. To bridge this gap, communication is the key.

Managing relationships with customers is a crucial part of running a successful business. Providing excellent customer service is an important piece of building relationships. Even though relationships cannot be entirely managed with software, there are tools that can help, namely the Bitrix24 CRM.