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Last updated on 9th December 2022 In HG Wells' 1923 novel Men Like Gods, he imagined a utopian, real-time world of future communication. “For in Utopia,” he writes, “except by previous arrangement, people do not talk together on the telephone.  “A message is sent...

Last updated on 9th December 2022 Are we cyborgs? According to Elon Musk, the answer is yes. In an on-stage interview at the Code Conference, Musk said: “We’re already cyborgs...You have more power than the president of the United States had 20 years ago. You can...

Last updated on 9th December 2022 Wassup? A nonsensical phrase. That everyone knows and recognises. All thanks to marketing.  Sometimes a marketing project is so incredibly good that it becomes a celebrated part of pop culture. The marketing project we’re...

Last updated on 9th December 2022 An incredible 660,000 startups are registered in the UK every year. (And that figure is roughly the same in the US.)  That’s equal to 70 businesses created every single hour.  The bad news is… 60% of them will fail before...

Last updated on 9th December 2022 What do Tim Cook and The Rock have in common? They both wake up before 4am. The Rock is even quoted in a Bodybuilding article as saying: “I love putting in that hard work as early as possible to get my day started off on the right...

Last updated on 9th December 2022 In the recent Disney documentary, Into the Unknown: Making Frozen 2 viewers got a chance to see just how much work really goes into these feature-length animations.  The team behind the movie was 800 people strong. According to...

Last updated on 9th December 2022 Trello is one of the most popular project management tools on the market, best known for its “Trello boards” that help users to visualise and manage their tasks.  But Trello isn’t for everyone - and if you’re looking for an...

Last updated on 9th December 2022 According to our 2021 Project Management statistics, 95% of people feel that having a list of tasks to do is good for their mental health.  So it’s clear that having a checklist can not only help you to stay on track, but it can...

Last updated on 8th December 2022 Imagine if you could plan everything you need to do this week in just 20 minutes. From replying to your emails, to finally chipping away at that huge project that’s been looming over you. Well, now you can.  In this article,...

There's an old adage that progress rarely happens in a straight line. And it’s particularly true in the complex world of project management.  While, in an ideal world, projects would come together like this… …the reality is that this is pretty much never the...

Last updated on 6th December 2022 In this article we’re going to cover everything hybrid working – from what it is, to the pros and cons, and how you can make it work for your business (if you choose to!) A recent McKinsey & Company study found...

Last updated on 6th December 2022 In this article we’re going to cover all of the steps required to implement a foolproof creative workflow process.  Even in creative fields - where more freedom is given to workers so they can come up with weird and wonderful...

Last updated on 6th December 2022 To quote Robin Sharma, author of the 5am Club: “Productivity is less about what you do with your time, and more about how you run your mind.” We all know that successful people are the ones who get the most out of every day. So it’s...

Last updated on 6th December 2022 In this article we’re going to explain everything you need to know about release management (sometimes called deployment management.) With Project.co release management keeps us in order. We get feedback from users, plan out how we...

Last edited on 6th December 2022 Socrates once said "Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives." And never has that felt *more literal* than when you’re up against a tough deadline, or have a big project in front of you! Whether you’re working in...

Last updated on 5th December 2022 On the morning of 12th March 1928, a leak was discovered in the St. Francis Dam - built just two years earlier, about 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles in the San Francisquito Canyon. Later that day, the dam burst. More than twelve...

Last updated on 5th December 2022 It’s no secret that the world of work has changed - most likely forever.  Increasingly, employees are free to, at least, mix their time between remote and office-based work. On an individual level, that’s great. No more commute,...

Last updated on 5th December 2022 In this article we’re going to take a look at how to create a hybrid work schedule.  ‘Hybrid work’ has been somewhat of a hot topic since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, with businesses looking to reduce the amount of office...

Last updated on 5th December 2022 Project failure: two words many of us spend our lives trying to avoid! Of course, the specific factors that cause a project to fail are basically too numerous to list. A key cause of project failure is a lack of project visibility: a...

Last updated on 5th December 2022 In this article we’re going to take a look at 12 reasons why projects fail, and also some solutions so that you can fix these failures if you ever run across them. Or, ideally, prevent them from ever happening to your projects! ...

Last updated on 5th December 2022 Workload management is all about prioritising your tasks and using your time wisely. Easier said than done, right? But managing your workload is key to maintaining a healthy, productive lifestyle. Plus, it helps you to keep doing your...

Last updated on 5th December 2022 In this article we’re going to take a good look at employee engagement, answering questions like “What is employee engagement?” and “How can employee engagement be improved?” According to our 2022 Employee Engagement survey, 15% of...

Last updated on 5th December 2022 In this article we’re going to take a look at the 11 best productivity apps in 2022. We’ve created a definitive list of apps that target different areas of work and life so you can be as productive as possible, this year and...

Last updated on 5th December 2022 ‘Asynchronous communication’ - communication between people at different times, in different places - goes back a loooong way. How far? Well, the ancient historian Hellanicus wrote of the first ever handwritten letter being sent by...

In this digital-first, hybrid era of working, with teams more dispersed than ever before, employee engagement has never been more important. To get a better understanding of how employees feel about engagement in their workplace, we surveyed 192 respondents in September 2022. We asked them about work-life balance, productivity, recognition and more.

Last updated on 5th December 2022 In 1999, Tony Hsieh was beginning a new role as CEO of Zappos, the online shoe and clothing retailer.  And, at Zappos, each and every new hire goes through the same four-week onboarding process - even the new CEO. During the...

In this article we’re going to explain and compare the 8 best productivity methods.  Productivity has become a bit of a buzzword in recent years, particularly with the shift to hybrid and remote working.  Despite fears that productivity would plummet with...

From ‘mind map’ to ‘brainstorm,’ and ‘guarantee’ to ‘warranty,’ there are certain words, in business and life, that are destined to be forever used interchangeably.  And so it is with ‘program manager’ and ‘project manager.’ Two crucial roles, with many...

In this article we’re going to show you how to track leads from marketing to sales in just 5 simple steps.  According to the LinkedIn State of Sales Report 2020, 94% of top performing salespeople called the leads they received from marketing either “excellent” or...

Last updated on 6th December 2022 In this article we’re going to go through the steps required to manage creative teams successfully - WITHOUT stifling them.  Proper management is essential if you want your team to thrive and be successful. According to a Global...

Last updated on 22nd May 2023 In the fast-paced world of business, one thing remains constant: the importance of solid client communication. It's not enough to offer great products or services anymore; you need to connect with your clients on a deeper level. As we...

Nike have always been product promoting machines and for their House of Go campaign, they went even further than usual. For a whole month, Nike in Chicago opened a multi-floor pop-up shop, which included a high-tech treadmill surrounded by three giant screens filled...

If the year 2020 taught us anything, it’s that - at the risk of stating the obvious - pandemics are terrible!  However, one of the best things about humans is our ability to adapt to change. A lot of industries had to innovate and change (evolve or die, as the...

Are you one of the millions of people who have had a meal-kit delivered to your door?  This relatively young market is currently worth around 9.13 billion (USD) globally and is expected to keep on rising to around 20 billion dollars in 2027.  The current...

It’s hard to believe that less than twenty five years ago social media didn’t exist. Nowadays, it’s such an all-encompassing force.  Social media is where we go to get our news. Organise events. Talk to friends. Promote things. Buy things. See what the President...

Last updated on 9th December 2022 ‘Stay focused.’ ‘Ignore the noise.’  ‘Starve your distractions, feed your focus.’ These well-meaning motivational soundbites are designed to offer inspiration and keep the reader at the top of their focus game. But they’re...

Last updated on 9th December 2022 So, you’re planning an event!  That’s awesome. But with everything you need to plan and consider, it can also be a little bit nerve-wracking.  Imagine if your event planning went so badly that you were left with thousands of...

There are two types of people in life.  Those that strike when the iron is hot. And those that make the iron hot by continually striking. Which one of those do you think has more continual and long-lasting success? There’s an assumption that creativity strikes...

Last updated on 9th December 2022 When you’re managing your own projects, you might be able to scrape by with calendar reminders and strategically placed post-it notes, but when you have other people to consider it becomes more difficult.  Project management for...

You may think there aren’t many similarities between athletes and software developers, but they do have one thing in common:  Sprints. When an athlete sprints, they run as fast as they can over a short distance. And a developers’ sprint is pretty similar.  A...

There’s no point having the perfect processes, systems, office environment and project management software, everything that makes your business work. And then have a team that doesn’t like working together. Team building activities are not only fun, but they can help...

You’ve won a project with an exciting new client. Wooohooo! But as soon as the excitement subsides you know it’s time to set everything up so the project runs smoothly. You create a spreadsheet schedule, share it with the client via email, and introduce your...

Project management can get all-consuming and very busy at times, but it’s super important to surround yourself with resources that can keep your momentum going. There are tons of project management books out there, it can be hard to choose where to start. So we’ve...

Picture this: you’re in an unstructured meeting that seems to be dragging on forever. The conversation is jumping from one topic to another and it feels like no real progress is being made. No one knows what the goals of the meeting are or what their responsibilities...

Last updated on 9th December 2022 “Teamwork makes the dream work”…as the saying goes. But did you know that’s not the complete quote? This phrase was first attributed to John Maxwell, an American clergyman. The quote in full is: “Teamwork makes the dream work, but a...

Type ‘You had one job’ into Google images and you’re going to see some pretty hilarious errors.  Of course, they’re probably not hilarious to the people who made the mistakes (or those who have to foot the bill to get the errors fixed!)   The problem...