I’m no stranger to project manager job interviews. Between full-time job searching years ago and chats with agency owners for contract work now, I’ve had my fair share of discussions about my experience, work style, philosophy, and project history over my career. While interviews can be a tedious exercise, they’re also a great time toRead more …
A small but noteworthy update. We’ve aligned event details on the Dashboard with those of the Schedule. When you click on a Dashboard event, you will now see the details popover in all its glory instead of its less flamboyant tooltip predecessor. A lot of you have been asking for this so I hope youRead more …
We’re working on a bunch of important features here at Guru Central and, I have to admit, adding emoji support was not one of them. So, why have we done this now? Good question! It’s a bit random, like this octopus … 🐙 It has been said that the Chinese word for crisis, 危机 wēijī, isRead more …
The most difficult project I’ve worked on took place a few years ago—it was a complex development project with a somewhat rude client and a team that was enthusiastic but in over our heads. We struggled with our project velocity, allowing scope creep to influence our resource allocation and blowing our personal schedules by workingRead more …
We’re thrilled to have Dan on our customer success team helping to spread harmony and positive vibes to all our users. Having previously worked in the creative services industry he’s experienced, first hand, the problem Resource Guru is solving and empathy goes a long way when you’re trying to help people. More recently, Dan headedRead more …
Years ago, I was handed a brand-new project to manage and needed to get my team up-to-speed—with a tight two-month deadline to launch and no room for errors. In order to onboard my team, I linked everyone to the project brief, added them to the project task board, and held a hasty all-hands meeting impartingRead more …
Baden-Powell, founder of the world Scouting movement, once said “Leave this world a little better than you found it”. I think he was referring to the cleanliness of one’s campsite, but it’s a nice life philosophy to have, and one we try to embrace as a company here at Resource Guru. That’s why, when weRead more …
Resource Guru is growing :) To help us support our amazing customers and all the people who contact us daily, we’re recruiting a new Customer Success Guru to join our family. Headquartered in London, we have a great company culture and offer competitive salaries, autonomy and the opportunity to work remotely. We’re passionate about solvingRead more …
As a remote team, Slack, the messaging app, is a key part of our daily life here at Resource Guru. As our central communications hub we use Slack to discuss work, share photos, and keep track of notifications from tools like Trello. We plan to release an official Resource Guru – Slack integration in theRead more …
Now you can see when your time is money. Need to schedule some time for work on your company website? Oh, but hang on, internal jobs mess with your reports. Not any more! You can now specify whether bookings you add to Resource Guru are billable or not and get a breakdown in reports. All youRead more …
