May13
As I write this I'm sat in a coffee shop watching as coffee is produced right in front of me. The amount of care, dedication and precision being taken to make the perfect roast is inspiring. It's got me thinking about the similarities to what we are doing here at Project Bubble.
We have a few major updates on the way over the next couple of months that will help you be more productive and also enjoy using Project Bubble more. We can't tell you the details right now but we are sure you'll love what we are working on.
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Apr09
Time seems to be flying by this year, especially for us at Project Bubble HQ because we've been so busy developing new features. Here's what's new in April...
Firstly, due to popular request, we've made it possible for managers to be able to see if their team are tracking time, how much time they've spent so far, and on what tasks.
Simply select a user from the user dropdown, select a project, or select Assigned Tasks from the next dropdown, then look down the task list and you'll see the task highlighted in green if your team member is working on it. Please note you won't be able to start or stop the timer unless it's you that's tracking time.
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Mar19
Last week, Susan had a terrifying experience.
She was sitting at her desk among the confines of her tiny cubicle posting the latest eCard. She smiled in gleeful anticipation of the avalanche of likes and comments she knew were soon to come. As she concluded her post, the eerie feeling crept over her - she was not alone. With dread, she slowly swiveled around in her chair to find her boss, arms crossed, staring at the incriminating smartphone she held in her hand…
This is a common scenario for many employees. Clandestine Facebooking is all too common in the workplace. And many project managers spend substantial amounts of time, angst, and money to hamper all on-the-clock tweets, posts, pins, and other social media actions.
But should project managers be trying to stop it? Or should they be encouraging it?
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Mar07
We've improved the way that tasks are managed and given more power to Project Managers. We've also made some other improvements that you might want to know about.
Firstly, we just want to reiterate how much we value simple and easy task management here at Project Bubble. Our whole ethos is about keeping things simple and easy-to-use, but also providing software that gets out of your way so that you can manage your projects quickly and efficiently, saving time and getting more work done.
We've added so many features and developments over these last couple of years that sometimes we need to take a step back and look at the core features, and that is basically - simple task management and collaboration.
There are elements of the simplicity and usefulness that have gotten a little lost since introducing new features, such as time tracking, so we needed to re-visit it and get back to the original vision.
Read on because there are some important changes that might affect you and your team.
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Feb28
Ever wanted to have a time report automatically update each week, or each month? Well you can achieve this now thanks to the new Live Reports feature.
We've updated the reporting once again making it even more powerful. Not only have we added a few extra filters (which you might have noticed already), such as filter by Tag and by Status, but we've added the ability to create live reports by selecting a date range of "Last Week" for example, or "Last Month".
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Feb26
Legendary psychologist Abraham H. Maslow once philosophically stated: “What a man can be, he must be”. Some might say this is the true definition of motivation – the innate need to be all that one can be.
But what drives a person to start and continue the journey to be all that they can be? And, more importantly, how can you, as a project manager, enhance motivation in your employees?
In order to enhance motivation, you must first understand it. Therefore, this week we will discuss the ins-and-outs of motivation, and stay tuned next week for information on how to motivate others.
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Feb14
Now it's even easier and quicker to manage your projects & tasks. You can now use keyboard shortcuts to save even more time while using Project Bubble. Quick, and simple.
How do they work? It's really easy. Firstly take a look at our keyboard shortcuts guide which includes all of the shortcuts (so far) with a bit of info on how you can use them.
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Feb06
We've just made reporting even better in Project Bubble. You can now download CSV exports directly from reports, plus we've improved the standard CSV exports across each tab.
Getting your data out is just as important as getting your project, task and time data in. Therefore we've been focused on improving the export facilities in Project Bubble so that you can easily extract the information presented on the screen, and send it to your spreadsheet tools for data analysis and reporting.
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Feb05
As a project manager, do you know how to set goals? You're probably saying, "Well, is the Pope Catholic? Of course I do!”
In actuality, the truth is that most people often misjudge two things when it comes to goal setting:
- They underestimate the importance of goal setting
- They overestimate their knowledge of goal setting
Goal setting is an important part of the project management process. We'll take a look at why goals are important, the theory behind goal setting, and how we can use this theory successfully in the workplace.
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Jan12
According to research conducted through Opinion Corporation of Princeton, NJ and innovation evangelist Steve Shapiro, New Year’s resolutions are not as easy as most people think.
Their survey found:
- A mere 8% of people succeed in maintaining their New Years resolutions every year.
- Slightly more people (19%) achieve their resolutions every other year.
- 49% of those who make yearly resolutions have infrequent success.
- One out of every four people never succeed - they fail on every resolution every year.
That means that 3 out of 4 people almost never succeed. Why?
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