It’s About Time! The Journyx Blog

Does your enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution include employee time and expense tracking? While convenient and efficient at first glance, this “free” ERP function could cost your company in the long run if you aren’t careful. Read More

If you’re a project manager – even if not by title, but as a part of your job – you know how difficult and stressful it can be to manage all the minute details of your projects in a way that: Delivers the project on time. Keeps the project on or under budget. Keeps all the project resources and stakeholders HAPPY. Most projects won’t satisfy all of these requirements – at least, not in a way that doesn’t seriously jeopardize the sanity and well-being of the project manager and her team. Did you know… Read More

Let’s say you’re making cookies. There are several factors and resources you would need to think about in order to make those cookies, such as: Ingredients: Do you have all the ingredients you need? What ingredients are you missing? How easy or difficult will it be to obtain those ingredients? Tools: Do you have the right bowls, measuring cups, appliances, pans, and other tools necessary to make the cookies? How easy or difficult will it be to obtain those tools? Time: How long will it take to make the cookies? Will additional time be required for things like preparing the dough or batter, or cooling the cookies down? By when will you need the cookies to be ready to eat or transport? So, in order to form your plan for making the cookies, you need to consider all of these factors first. In the same way, you need to consider resource management when you build your project plan. Read More

Let’s be real: not every department is directly delivering new revenue.  Depending on which department you operate — especially as you get “farther back from the front lines” — it may feel very hard to show the value you deliver to the organization.  You may feel like your team’s budget is a target for cost-cutting measures, especially when the CFO is creating pressure to meet this year’s EBITDA goals.  Maybe such measures are called for, but it’s also quite possible that your team and its spend are not tuned to deliver optimal value back to the organization.     There are five steps you can take to retune your team to do just that.     Read More

Microsoft Excel is one of the most widely-used business applications in the world, and it’s popular for many reasons – not least of which it’s easy to get, and it can be used in so many different ways. While I use Excel for reporting and analytics at work, my wife and I also use it to keep track of our bills and their due dates. It’s no wonder that companies would look first to Excel to solve new business problems that come up. Read More

What is it like to intern at a software company in Austin, Texas? My name is Ryan O’Daniel and I’m currently an intern here at Journyx, where I have learned many things during my time and have had to adapt to this fast-paced environment. If you’re also in college and either already working in an internship, or considering your internship options, I wanted to compile some tips to help you to be more successful wherever you are, and give you a glimpse into what it’s like working at a software company in 2018. Read More

Sixteen years ago — following in my father’s footsteps, albeit somewhat by accident — I became a project manager. Many of the things I learned in that challenging role have helped me succeed as I’ve moved into different roles: product management, engineering management, product and marketing operations, and eventually operating the bulk of a small company. One thing I learned as a project manager that has stuck with me is the importance of crisply defining success for any particular project or task. Read More

Do you pride yourself on your ability to multi-task? As it turns out, there’s actually no such thing: multi-tasking is impossible, because our brains are only meant to process one task at a time at full capacity. What we’re actually doing is known as “context-switching” (or switching between different tasks). So, when we think we’re being productive by trying to complete two tasks at once, we’re actually doing ourselves more harm than good. Read More

Implementing and rolling out any new software can be stressful, especially if it’s around an activity that your employees don’t enjoy doing to begin with. As we’ve mentioned here several times before, employees hate filling out timesheets, so it’s first important to take steps to empower them and make it easy. This will go a long way towards helping you select a timesheet software solution. Read More

Companies ask their employees to track time for a variety of reasons. Each group that uses the time information from employee timesheets has some unique requirements and challenges based on what they need to do with the data. Project managers have specific needs for tracking project time in a way that makes monitoring work and making adjustments as efficient as possible. Read More