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Knowledge, stories and advice from the Tactical.ly team and our key partners

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Who has time to write such great articles? Well thankfully our partners do! Here are some good pieces with great observations and insights from people we respect and trust...and occasionally some pieces from us too.

Motivation

What’s your business word for the year?

Hayley Stone

We’ve noticed an increasing trend for individuals to shy away from making traditional New Year’s resolutions in favour of designating a particular word for their year – a way they intend to live, in other words. “Adventurous” might be one. Or “focused”. Or “joyful”. You get the idea.
Motivation

Motivation ideas

Hayden Judd

Keep yourself and your team motivated in economic uncertainty
Business growth

Increasing profitability through tough times

Hayden Judd

Increased pressure on small NZ businesses continues to mount. So what are some easy actionable things you can do to help increase profitability?
Business performance

Should my agency consider a distributed workforce model?

Hayden Judd

A distributed workforce model provides significant advantages for digital and marketing agencies. It allows them to increase their talent pool, eliminate geographical constraints and reduce costs
Digital performance

Validating concepts reduces risk

Hayley Stone

Concept validation is an important step in any digital product development and should never be ignored, overlooked or minimised. It is the process of testing a concept or idea for a new product, offering, or service to determine if it is viable and feasible for the product to move forward and succeed.
Productivity and optimisation

Agile for Agencies

Luke Pivac

The problems using agile in digital service delivery agencies
Project management

Prioritising Requirements with MoSCOW

Luke Pivac

The Agile MoSCoW method. No, not the city! But the unique and cool way you can prioritise requirements apart from sequencing, ordering or weighting.
Productivity and optimisation

Billable utilization - what you need to know`

Tim Copeland

Is your billing utilization really telling you what you need to know? We take a look at what billable utilization is, ways to calculate it, and what to watch out for. Tim Copeland Tim Copeland Read more posts by this author.
Project management

The fixed-price project lowdown

Nicole Tiefensee

What fixed-price projects are, what to watch out for when managing one, how they compare to time and materials projects, and how Runn helps with cost, budget and schedule control of fixed-price projects.
Distress performance

Reacting quickly and positively to Lockdowns

Hayden Judd

How you act now as we experience lockdowns can make or break your business in this pandemic
Sales and growth

How to Grow Your Business While Staying True to Your Craft

Benek Lisefski

When our inner artist and inner entrepreneur are at odds, how do we grow a freelance business?
Leadership

Enhancing Servant Leadership Through Emotional Intelligence

Luke Pivac

Great leadership is all about Emotional Intelligence
UX and design

The Best Designers Are Both Creators and Curators

Benek Lisefski

How to find the perfect balance of new and old, according to your strengths
Leadership

Problem-solving with our opinions.

Aidan Kenealy

Take three people that have never seen an elephant, blindfold them, and set them a task to describe it by touch alone. What do you think would happen?
Project management

Enhancing your Agile workplace

Luke Pivac

Some useful tips to enable your team to work in an optimal and collaborative environment, and it all has to do with information radiators and osmotic communication.
Project management

Reporting Agile Projects

Luke Pivac

Using information radiators to report is an easy and powerful mechanism
Leadership

I’ll Take My Coffee Virtual, Thanks!

Aidan Kenealy

Project management

Scrum in a few words

Luke Pivac

The Scrum framework is a subset of Agile, but it can be so much more than that.
UX and design

How to Build a Recession-Proof Design Business

Benek Lisefski

UX and design

5 questions to ask before you create a customer journey map

Katherine Barrow

Sales and growth

You Say “NO” but They Come Back Begging for a “YES”

Benek Lisefski

That’s how you know you’ve *made it* as a freelancer
Project management

Setting Up Ways to be Adaptive

Luke Pivac

A key outcome of an agile mindset is becoming adaptive
Productivity and optimisation

Kanban In a Few Words

Luke Pivac

The basics of Kanban and how it can be effective for you
Motivation

It’s Okay to Miss Your Targets.

Aidan Kenealy

If you weighed 150kg and set yourself a goal to lose 20kg in a year, would it be considered a failure if you only lost 19kg?
Productivity and optimisation

Five things you can do to avoid project cost overruns

Nicole Tiefensee

Cost overruns are all too common when managing client projects. Here are our top five tips to keep cost overruns on the low, while keeping your client and team happy.
Leadership

Can I call myself a mentor?

Aidan Kenealy

Productivity and optimisation

Project change - more than just scope

Nicole Tiefensee

Find out about project change and how to stay on top of it in this second part of our blog post series on project control.`
Digital performance

Digital transformation = Yogurt...

Leroy Clarke

How is #DT yogurt?
Sales and growth

Selling Solutions

Tim Copeland

We take a look at what makes selling for a digital agency unique and why it is so hard to find a good salesperson with the right skills.
Sales and growth

Sales and Delivery. Relationship status: it’s complicated.

Nicole Tiefensee

While there were vast differences in the agencies’ offerings, from marketing and advertising to software development, and the frameworks used to deliver projects, there was one common thing that stood out to me: the lack of synergy between the sales and delivery functions within the organisation.
Sales and growth

A better sales pipeline

Tim Copeland

The problem with sales pipelines in professional services agencies.
Productivity and optimisation

Digital transformation vs digital evolution

Katherine Barrow

Why we should stop talking about digital transformation and start talking about digital evolution
Productivity and optimisation

AI is more than a Chat bot

Leroy Clarke

UX and design

Post UX - War and Post-its

Katherine Barrow

Productivity and optimisation

The digital project manager’s guide to project control

Nicole Tiefensee

This is the first part of our blog post series on project control. Learn what project control is all about, what questions it is trying to answer and how an effective control system will set you up for success.
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