Productivity

Staying productive is the hardest and compelling task for all employees: be focused at your desk closing task for all day long. It isn’t simple. Isn’t it? Productivity is a famous topic, covered in hundreds and hundreds of posts, most of them giving a lot of interesting hints to keep up a high energy level at work. However, in … Continue reading "5 ways to get a more productive environment"

Procrastination is one of the biggest weakness of nowadays, the worst person you could hire in your company is the procrastinator: not the one unable of working in team, not the one unable to make the right decision, not the one unable of organize his own work, just the procrastinator. Just reading these few first lines you can … Continue reading "5 tricks to turn procrastination into productivity"

When a company feels the need of introducing a project management software is probably because a deep change is happening. Time of changing introduce a feeling of uncertainty that often terrifying people. It is instead usually a great opportunity for a company to grow and improve methodologies and results. When your work is well organized, working … Continue reading "The Most Effective Way to Solve Management Problem"

If your desk and your monitor are full of notes and reminders it is clearly time to do something about it. There is a better way to collect your notes and to-dos and it’s called Twproject. You are busy at work, we know that, and you have a lot of things to remember and do… … Continue reading "No more notes on your desk with Twproject"

Work meetings can be stressful and often perceived as a waste of time for your whole team. Finding the best moment, coming with a clear idea of the meeting purpose, taking important decisions, define a project’ plan and all designated resources: all these points can decide if your meeting will be a complete failure or a success. If … Continue reading "5 Secrets to Improve Your Meeting"

Companies becoming “liquid”, teams spread over thousands kilometers: workspace has changed, it is wider and faster. This is the reason why you need the right collaboration tools to… make the work work! Collaboration tools: what is happening right now It has already happened and it is happening. Despite being a big, medium or small company, … Continue reading "We need to talk: collaboration trends and mistakes to avoid"

In our experience with thousands of great companies, that we’ve met thanks to Twproject, we have analyzed so many teams at work, encountering always the same characteristics defining great leaders with successful and happy collaborators. Being a leader is not an easy job, you have to carefully balance humility, strength and integrity, being always steps … Continue reading "6 Qualities Of Great Leaders – Infographic"

Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Even when you work remotely. No fear: this post is about how to save the day! Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong: these are supposed to be the words of Edward Aloysius Murphy Junior (1918 – 1990), words that became an ante – litteram meme … Continue reading "Murphy’s Law VS Remote Collaboration"

Organizing work to-dos is probably the hardest part of self organization, we read every day so many articles about haw to stay organized managing time productively and creating effective to-do lists. Here at Twproject we face the same problem as you do, because we are developers, marketers, designers exactly like you. When we started redesigning Twproject 6 … Continue reading "Plan Your To-Dos with Twproject"

OK you know it, the community of Project management is full of great bloggers, podcasters and experts but there are some of them that you really cannot miss. This list of course includes some gurus, some of the blogs that are known by all of us, but it includes also those we have always read … Continue reading "6 Project Management Blogs You Need to Follow"

Twproject 6 has been developed based on what you, our customers, ask for. Our main goal has always been improving your daily experience of using Twproject, and every single feature built in Twproject 6 has been made with this purpose.

If you have to get inspiration about collaborative working, think big: Gandalf, CEO of The Fellowship of the Ring Startup, has been probably the best ever…

You can think of open space offices and flame mails, but team conflicts are a little bit older than that: Cain and Abel, you know..? Since that time we learned the lesson: conflicts can destroy a team.

Project management problems and solutions Handling teamwork by project management requires expertise, skills, experience and flexibility in time. In our fifteen years of development and support of Twproject, we have found some problem patterns that are repeatedly found in teamwork management, and we have hence created corresponding solution support in Twproject. Some of the problematic … Continue reading "Eight project management problems in search of solutions"

We just released a new (free) online service for facilitating change in companies, groups, teams: it’s called Your Change Manifesto, and you can use it online here: http://yourchangemanifesto.com The service idea is heavily inspired by several of Teamwork bootcamps, experiencing the difficulties and opportunities innovative managers find in introducing change.