Surviving on the Tribal Knowledge of the Few

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I’ve been corresponding with an acquaintance through LinkedIn, discussing how a small creative business should adopt a process to manage a growing development team and an ever-increasing amount of work. When a creative group grows exponentially in size and complexity of work in a small amount of time, the need for a formal process and […]

Online Task and Milestone Management Software Video Demo

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Intervals web-based time, task and project management software includes the ability to group tasks into milestones. Web designers, developers and creatives will find milestones useful for organizing tasks into individual phases of a project, each with it’s own deadline — i.e. design phase, engineering phase, and site launch. Watch the video demo below to learn […]

How web-based time tracking software pays for itself

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In this current economic landscape many small businesses are looking for ways to save money and increase productivity. Smaller and tighter budgets require us to be more frugal with our spending while still meeting our goals and expectations for the business. For web designers, developers, creatives, marketers and others providing a professional service and billing […]

On a side note… something to do on the side

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An email from one of our Intervals customers especially caught my attention today. I noticed in the footer of the email she had joined a project known as 10:10. What is the 10:10 project? It’s a challenge to people, businesses, educational groups, and organizations, to cut 10% of our emissions in 2010. We think it’s […]

Project Management Process for Web Designers & Developers

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Often times when we talk about Intervals we tell the story of how it was created by a group of like-minded creatives as web-based project management software for web designers and developers, as well other types of small businesses. What makes Intervals unique is that it was built by Pelago, a team of web designers, […]

Recent Intervals Features and Improvements

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API Beta Release After a significant amount of research, development and customer feedback, we have officially released the beta version of the API. To get started using the API, read the online documentation for help and tips. Keep in mind that all API requests will operate on your current data, so tread lightly during the […]

Web Designers Are a Different Breed of Designer

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During my college years I studied traditional graphic design principles while attending design school. In my three years of study I spent weeks at a time on various specialized design projects. We hand drew typefaces to learn the subtleties of type. We explored complex concepts, reducing them to simple visual logos. We were taught about […]

So, You’ve Developed a Web-based Application. Now What?

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There are many web development agencies out there who are finding themselves in the same predicament Pelago was in five years ago. The nature of a web development business is that in solving business problems online for others, we often find it just as simple to solve our own. So we developed our own internal […]