Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Scope creep: It’s an ever-present threat for project teams, a bogeyman lurking behind every decision, threatening to delay or even derail your current project. For project managers, scope creep is especially frustrating. It almost always seems to be due to someone else’s decision — one that’s outside of your control or that you don’t even know about until it’s too late. Yet it’s you, the project manager, that usually gets blamed for any project delays.

At its simplest, Slack is a channel-based chat tool that many agencies and client services teams use to discuss issues in real-time. Instead of relying on buried email threads, phone calls, or carrier pigeons, Slack has become a popular tool for one-to-one business messaging, private group chat, voice and video calls, and inter-business collaboration via Slack Connect.

You don’t have to be a project manager to experience the challenges that come with handling projects from start to finish. Owners and agency leaders, like you, run into project management challenges on a regular. And it doesn’t matter if you’re large enough to have in-house project managers or handle those functions yourself. Things happen – projects run off course, over budget, or exhaust your most valuable resources.

We have some exciting new updates for you this month! See the latest features released in Teamwork throughout February such as a sneak peek into a brand new look coming to Teamwork, a Google Sheets Integration, and our new Desk Mobile App!

Search engine optimization (SEO) can be one of the biggest contributing factors to online success. There's a reason why SEO is one of the most sought-after services by businesses and has an expected $83.7 billion market reach by 2025. If you appear higher in search results of a competitive keyword, you get more site visits. And increased site visits expand brand awareness, boost credibility, and lead to more conversions. A well-planned SEO campaign is your best chance of getting to No.

No matter how you slice or dice it, project managers encounter plenty of repetitive work when handling their various projects and tasks. With so much time tied up in manual processes, task management quickly turns into a task of its own. Whether it’s recreating tasks or reassigning duties, projects with similar structures, teams, or timelines require a lot of duplicate actions. But you shouldn’t have to spend that excess time on duplicate work!

It doesn’t matter how much time you spend planning a project, creating proposals, or talking to your client—if you don’t get your project cost estimation right, all of your hard work will be for nothing. Project cost estimations help you predict how much you should charge a client for an upcoming project. But if you get it wrong, you’re suddenly tied to a project that doesn’t make your agency a profit and wastes valuable team resources.

We’ve hit the ground running in 2022 at Teamwork by bringing you exciting new features to kick start the year! A few of the new features released this month are Improved Reports, Dark mode for Android, and Archive Agents in Desk. Check out each feature below in detail and see how you can enhance processes within your team throughout 2022.

As 2021 comes to a close, we’re taking a journey back to look at some of the key features we launched at Teamwork during the year – and all of this was possible because of the ideas and feedback you provided us!

Effective management is crucial for the success of any design project. Without a plan, things can get out of control quickly. And no one wants to be the deer in headlights when a client asks for that design file you promised because it was lost under a soaring stack of other duties. Design project management is particularly unruly because it usually brings together a range of skilled and qualified individuals from across the team or from a client.