Wunderman x Resource Guru: Generating client visibility & trust
Find out how Wunderman use Resource Guru to give clients visibility and trust for pitches and projects.
Written by Team Guru
Work Life: Stories & strategies
Reach peak productivity and team harmony with practical guidance on resource and project management.
How to create the ultimate project budget template (+ FREE template)
A good project budget template is a crucial component to ensuring you maintain control of costs throughout the life of a project. But how do you go about creating a budget for your next project? What…
Written by Team Guru
How to find the best resource planning tool
I am sure you know the feeling – you’re working on an important client project and you need another team member to add the finishing touches before the deadline. You send them an email with the…
Written by Team Guru
How smart Project Managers use scheduling and communication to combat project burnout
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…
Written by Natalie Semczuk
Reporting sickness absence notifications to Slack using Zapier
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…
Written by Team Guru
Work isn’t always billable
You can now specify whether bookings you add to Resource Guru are billable or not and get a breakdown in reports.
Written by Percy Stilwell
Using off-the-shelf project management methodologies as a framework
No matter how experienced you are, handling any project is a challenge. When you’re responsible for ensuring the objective is met and the end result is delivered, it’s exciting and maybe even a little scary. But,…
Written by Verity Maybury
Workplace stress to success: workload & schedule management tips
Endless emails, emergency meetings, project plans, client kickoffs—deadlines and daily responsibilities can pull us into a storm of stress. It doesn’t matter what job title you hold; pressure and tension affect work performance and our ability to…
Written by Team Guru
Stress-busting habits of happy PMs: Tips from Brett Harned & Sloan Miller
Managing projects and staff requires a talent for balancing whatever comes across your desk—meaning you benefit from being centered, too! Whatever your role or job title, picking up new ways to minimize stress and become the most confident…
Written by Team Guru
The Zen PM – The power plan for turning chaos into calm
Good project managers secretly thrive off annoyances. That may be a head scratcher, but handle your frustrations a certain way, and they can be turned into victories. In the midst of myriad issues, PMs are required…
Written by Brett Harned
A DIY integration between Resource Guru and Slack, via Zapier
12th March 2015 update: we just improved webhooks to make this integration even better Resource Guru’s webhooks just got a shiny new interface and became a whole lot easier to use. This gives us a great…
Written by Andrew Rogoff
Solving the resource scheduling problem
What is Resource Guru and why are we building it? If you work in a company that uses a spreadsheet for resource scheduling then you will understand the problem we are trying to solve. Before co-founding…
Written by Andrew Rogoff