At WebDevStudios, we believe that our clients’ success is our success. We ensure that success by becoming a true partner to them. Sometimes, that means forming a website project partnership by partnering up with some of their other partners. From design agencies to IT agencies, to other development agencies, we have worked with them all. […]
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By Steven Macdonald Running your own business is one of the most rewarding and also stressful and time-consuming jobs you could ever do. Especially when you’re first starting out and growing your business, there is never enough time to get everything done. You need to figure out very quickly how to be productive. The trouble
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Behind every successful website project is a great project manager. Behind every successful project manager is a great set of project management tools. Project managers are essential to the life cycle of projects. They ensure that the projects stay on time and on budget from the moment the team kicks off development of a website
As a small business owner, your options and resources are often limited. You have to wear multiple hats, including one as a project manager, which means it’s your job to select a framework that works best for your team. But sometimes it seems as if there are as many project management frameworks as there are
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If there’s a guiding light for Agile project management, then Kanban is the Northstar project managers turn to for direction. As a visual management tool, Kanban enables teams to get more done on demand without unnecessary steps. It’s especially helpful for teams working with Agile project management or product management methodologies. But Kanban has had
Bad communication isn’t just annoying — it’s expensive. The Society for Human Resource Management reports that companies with 100 employees waste $420,000 every year through miscommunication. For major brands with more than 100,000 employees, that figure skyrockets to $62.4 million. When employees, managers, and executive teams don’t know how to talk to one another, projects
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WebDevStudios (WDS) is excited to announce changes to our project management processes across our company. In an effort to better organize client projects, code repositories and documentation, we are transitioning from Basecamp and Github and streamlining our processes under the Atlassian suite of tools, which includes Jira, Bitbucket and Confluence. This change was no easy
It’s no secret that website project timelines can sometimes be unreasonable. Clients have many different reasons behind the timeline goals set for projects. It could be anything from the release of a new product, a big marketing campaign, or an event. The target date is almost always important and firm. In managing website design and
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As 2019 began, I decided to set some goals for the new year. Everyone does this at the beginning of the year, but how many people actually follow through with hitting those goals? It’s usually not too many, including myself! I then realized that in my work life, as a Project Manager, I am responsible
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Who is your main point of contact for your website development project? If you guessed the Project Manager, you are correct! Once your project is ready to kick off, you will be introduced to your project team, which includes a dedicated Project Manager. The Project Manager will be communicating introductions, status updates, deliverables, requirements, and
