Tag Archives: project management

We manage too many projects, so you don’t have to

John Reeve | January 13th, 2009

One of the unique qualities of Intervals, our web-based project management tool, is that we are far more involved in it than your typical software company. At Pelago, we built Intervals out of a need to utilize better workflow management before realizing it could be useful to other creatives and developers. And we continue to […]

The Low End Theory of Project Management

John Reeve | January 7th, 2009

The web 2.0 sub-sphere of online project management tools is evolving. Small businesses are discovering the “simple” approach to project management is not enough for getting things done in the context of their reality. While they aren’t looking for anything complex, they are definitely seeking out more comprehensive alternatives to the overly hyped simple tools. […]

Intervals Improvements, Features and a Happy New Year

John Reeve | January 6th, 2009

It’s hard to believe 2008 has come to a close. We’ve been so busy cranking out improvements and new features we didn’t notice the time (though I can assure you, we did track it). Here we are, just a few days after the New Year, with an update on what’s new in Intervals. Milestones The […]

Managing Projects & Getting Things Done, at the Same Time

John Reeve | December 30th, 2008

Most online task management tools available today are great for helping the task-oriented individual or small business get things done. Once we’ve settled on one that matches our personality and worfklow style, we set about entering tasks and managing them. Intervals is very much like other hosted task management apps in this regard. The primary […]

New Milestones Feature Launching Soon

John Reeve | December 18th, 2008

A new way to manage projects and tasks Within the next few days we’ll be launching the much-anticipated milestones feature and redesigned home/dashboard page for Intervals, our web-based project management tool. This new feature will enable you to group tasks into deliverables, making project management a whole lot easier when dealing with so many tasks. […]

Putting the project before the scope

John Reeve | December 16th, 2008

Conventional wisdom dictates that any web design & development project should start out with a detailed scope of work, especially when flat bidding a project. This scope document is a road map, a guide dictating what stays in and what gets jettisoned in order to keep the project under budget and on time. That would […]

Looking back on 2005 when Intervals began

John Reeve | December 12th, 2008

We’ve come a long way since 2005 when we first opened up Intervals to a public beta. Fortunately, there are some cool sites out there, like archive.org, who’ve captured the history of our web site. Intervals will soon celebrate it’s four year anniversary. That’s four years of tuning and tweaking, making Intervals one of the […]

20 signs you don’t want that web design project

John Reeve | December 10th, 2008

Jeffrey Zeldman gives us his 20 reasons why you may want to say no to that next web design project. Though obviously meant to be a humorous commentary on the unpredictability of managing web design projects, some of the signs happen all too often. Then again, they are all based on actual client experiences. Here […]