Cascading Events in DayBack When working with projects, many times you may have events with dependencies. If one event’s scheduled time changes, you probably want any dependent events in the future to adjust accordingly. DayBack’s custom event actions allow you to have that kind of automated control over your…
I don’t need a new productivity hack; I need to rewire how my mind sees time Conference season is winding down in software land and while it’s been good to catch up with people I rarely get to see, it’s also really clear that my people are pretty stressed…
Overview Having switched from GoToMeeting to Zoom, we’re having a lot more meetings with customers since Zoom makes it so easy for new users to join the meeting. That means we have a lot more meetings to schedule and we needed a way to see our existing meetings on the…
New to DayBack for Salesforce, Calendar Analytics let you measure your schedule. Plot progress against your goals over time, balance your workload, and quickly see patterns that are invisible in traditional reports. Calendar Analytics is available for all DayBack sources, not just for Salesforce. We’ve been using analytics internally…
Analytics is coming to DayBack Calendar is here! Measure changes to your schedule and chart calendar data against your goals. You’ll be able to chart any additional fields you’ve added to the calendar. And you’ll know when the crests or troughs of your activity cross your thresholds. In the example…
Project management means frequently switching your focus. One minute you’re looking at all your deadlines across a range of projects, and the next you’re zoomed in on one project’s critical items. Calendars suck at this. Fortunately, DayBack’s new text filters let you overlay all your calendars and still quickly…
Defend the time you need to get your work done When I put a deadline on my calendar, it often seems far off in the future, with lots of time to get everything done. But as the deadline gets closer I wonder where all the time went. Regardless of my intention to make incremental…
Project management grammar Projects wander. Customers have unreasonable expectations. We make promises we can’t keep and that our customers misinterpret. Yet a simple grammar hack may help curb all of this. Consider the difference in clarity between these two versions of a project’s “next steps” we might send to a customer:…
