Tag Archives: project management

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 […]

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. […]

Launching a web site under a tight deadline

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Our web design and development agency, Pelago, recently launched the Petunia Pickle Bottom web site under a severely shortened deadline. While we had most of the site built — HTML, CSS, AJAX, database, server-side scripting — there were still many pieces of the puzzle that needed to be finished before the site could be launched. […]

Managing Web Developers and Designers

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Photo by e-magic There has been plenty of venting in the blogosphere about the difficulty and frustration that ensues when dealing with web developers. In fact, we’ve contributed to this topic ourselves when we wrote about The Myopic Web Developer. In an ideal world there would be a unity between the designer and the developer, […]

Simple is a Relative Word

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It seems that the holy grail of any web-based project management software app is a state of consumer nirvana collectively coined as “simple.” The word has become so popular — and mis-applied — that compound superlatives are becoming more commonplace; “absurdly simple”, “unbelievably simple”, and so on. Yet, it is difficult to objectively define simplicity […]

Tilting at silos

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The web-based project management software landscape can be described as a scattering of silos, oversimplified online tools that focus on one component of project management — time tracking, task management, invoicing. While holing up inside one of these apps may work well for some small businesses, many are finding them inadequate for their needs. Or […]

Pragmatic web project planning from Sam Barnes

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Sam Barnes has posted a great article differentiating corporate project management needs from those of a smaller web design or development agency, while also revealing how much the two perspectives have in common. If you are struggling with managing web projects, read this article. Meanwhile, consider these wise words when dismissing the importance of planning […]

Recent Intervals Updates

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We’re upgrading all Intervals plans at no extra cost to you That’s right. We are upgrading all Intervals plans, at no extra cost to you, to include more document storage and more active projects. In addition, we’re adding SSL to the Not So Basic plan. Why are we doing this? Because we’ve been listening to […]