| October 16th, 2012
I’ve had many conversations about the pros and cons of time tracking with several different web design agencies, creative agencies, and IT services companies — and their corporate in-house counterparts. One of the most common questions that comes up is, “why would we track our time if we aren’t billing hourly?” It’s a valid question. […]
| October 4th, 2012
Introducing invoicing by person, tracking down missing timesheets, project expense reporting, more granular filtering of project feeds along with the ability to subscribe to them via RSS, and more… Our October Intervals release is just the latest collection of features and improvements to make it into our online project management software. Log in to your Intervals […]
| September 28th, 2012
It was in the late fall of 1984. I was in the fourth grade. Nine years old. The teacher had just announced to our class that one lucky and talented young individual would be designing the program cover for the winter holiday performance (Yet another one of those embarrassing ensembles where our teachers would parade us in […]
| September 26th, 2012
The web design and development process is a relatively straightforward one. From sketching out ideas to writing code. From managing the project to delivering the final work to the client. The process is routine (but not monotonous), stimulating and rewarding. But when it comes time to discuss getting paid for that work we tend to […]
| September 19th, 2012
Several of our Intervals customers and blog readers have been asking about our past experience creating time and materials contracts for web site design and development. Questions wanting to know more about contract terms, amount of detail, formatting, delivery, signing, and payment. To help answer those questions, and get you started with a strong foundation, […]
| September 13th, 2012
Agile, Scrum and the Web Design and Development Industry The Web development industry, along with the software development world as a whole, is undergoing a significant transition in project management styles. The traditional waterfall methods — where projects are strictly confined to outdated specs and constantly over budget — are being replaced with methodologies collectively known […]
| September 4th, 2012
I grew up with Lego and have yet to find a toy as creative as those versatile, colorful bricks. Not a minute was wasted playing with Lego. And I witnessed the advent and evolution of the gaming console, my favorites being the Atari 2600 and the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). I wasted a lot of […]
| August 28th, 2012
Time tracking is something we’ve always done at our Web design and development agency, Pelago. When we transitioned into a SaaS company five years ago, with our flagship online software Intervals, the time tracking practices followed with us. Agile development just came naturally to us, and our time tracking habits dovetailed with our rendition of […]
