How to get hired at a creative agency

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The hiring process at any creative agency is anything but typical. The handshake and the resume don’t usually apply. Getting hired onto a creative crew at a design agency is usually a lengthy process involving several interviews and portfolio reviews. Since graduating from design school eleven years ago I’ve been on both sides of the […]

What makes Intervals different?

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Today there are quite a few options online for any creative agency researching project management software to run their day-to-day workflow. A quick search on Google will turn up several web-based applications self-described as being revolutionary or redefined. But what does that even mean? Revolutionary is a lofty word, usually reserved for wars and scientific […]

Project Management a Growing Need for Web Design Agencies

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Despite economic trends, small businesses are growing, and new web design agencies are appearing in every corner of the world. These are new international companies comprised of few employees, but who still require project managers and project management tools to keep them growing. As with any new company, there will be a learning curve for […]

What NOT to do as a Creative Web Design and Development Agency

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Pelago just celebrated it’s ninth birthday, a milestone marked by a history of having worked on 300-plus projects for over 100 clients. The one component of our business model that made us the most successful was our commitment to web design and development mediums, to the nuts and bolts of designing and building web sites, […]

Basecamp: A Clear and Present Brand

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Basecamp™ is again causing a stir in the online project management space by recently announcing they will be moving all of their existing customers from their old site address to a new site address at basecamphq.com. To make matters more controversial, they’ve also announced they’ll be branding the new site address with a small logo. […]

Project Managers: Why Every Creative Agency Needs One

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After starting up our web design and development agency, Pelago, in August of 2000, it took only a few months to realize we would have to add a project manager to our eclectic mix of creatives. Our creative design and development skills were enough to get a project started on the right track with brilliant […]

Project Management Software Review

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Over at the Avertua blog they’ve been kind enough to write an unsolicited review of Intervals, going as far as to call it the “The BEST Project Management Software Available.” From the review: I really needed an all-in-one task management, project management, and collaboration tool. And I tested just about everything out there, and every […]

Issue Tracking and Time Tracking Combined

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/sundazed/CC BY-SA 2.0 A long time ago — well, five years, but that is a long time in Internet years — before the SaaS market became a breeding ground for online task management, time tracking, and project management tools, we had a working prototype of our own app at Pelago. Being both a web design […]