The Slingshot Blog
Get the latest trends in project management, team collaboration, data visualization and more. Here we share our knowledge, best advice, how-tos, research, insights, and more - all with the aim of helping you boost team results.
How to Align Sales and Marketing: A Guide to Smarketing
Successful businesses know why it is important to align sales and marketing - and the chaos that can ensue when they are not in sync. So how can you keep improving your business by always keeping the relationship between the two close?
Тop 17 Task Management Tools and How to Pick the Right One
When it comes to organizing our everyday work, task management and project administration can be the most difficult things to navigate. They require us to be flexible, quick and agile, to get the results we need. Every team needs a good task management application to help them tackle this challenge.
Choosing the Best Team Communication App: What to Look For
What is the best way to choose a communication app for your team? In a pool of many, to achieve true efficiency and productivity means to make the right choice and make it consciously. Read this article to find out how to do it.
The Best Chat Apps: How to Pick the Right One for Your Team
The best chat app for your team is out there - but how can you possibly choose? We've selected the best for you in this article, showing both pros and cons so you can easily make a decision.
Building a High-Performing Team: Why and How
You want a high-performing team? That's completely within your reach. Taking the right steps to it however involves a bit more of a strategy. Read on to see what we mean.
Choosing the Right Document Management System: What to Consider
Relying on documents is inevitable; but is the clutter inevitable too? Definitely not! Let's see how with choosing the right document management system any business can find efficiency, productivity, and focus - all necessary elements for creating an effective workflow.
Digital Workplaces: Transforming the Way Teams Work
What we know for sure by now is that the workplace of today has really been changing - leading to the logical appearance of digital workplaces. In what way are they changing the ways team work and can you make sure it brings positive change?
7 Pitfalls of Distributed Teams: How to Spot Them and Avoid Them
Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, one of the first things companies had to improve was their agility. The model of the conventional team, working in the same space at all times, became outdated overnight for many organizations. Adaptation and efficiency called for distributed teams, hybrid models of work, and relying on technology more than ever.
Scrum vs. Waterfall: How to Choose the Right Method for your Project
There are different benefits to using each of the two most popular project management methodologies - Scrum and Waterfall. Understanding specifically the differences between the two methodologies, their pros, and cons and the benefits project managers experience by using each one. In this article, we take a closer look at Scrum vs. Waterfall, to give you just that perspective.
Creating a Perfect Project Roadmap and How to Use It
In this article, you will discover what a perfect project roadmap stands for, why you need it in your project planning, and how to create and use it most efficiently. Whether you have a short-term campaign, a marketing event, a virtual initiative, or a long-term goal that has to do with the launch of something bigger, the project roadmap is what keeps everyone on the same page at all times.