Why We Migrated from Basecamp to Trello for Project Management

5 Things I’ve Learned as a Remote PM

It’s been almost two years since I became the first dedicated Project Manager at Phuse, so I figured it was time to take a moment to reflect back on my experiences and share what I’ve learned with you.

Secret Santa: A Lightweight App to Organize Gift Exchanges

Last year we hacked together the bare bones of an app to organize a secret gift exchange among our team for Halloween. We called it “Secret Satan,” appropriately named for the holiday. It was a wild success and good bonding for a…

How to Give Good Design Feedback

Giving design feedback can be hard, especially if you’re not a designer. As a non-designer on a design and development team, this is a challenge I face every time I have to assess my colleagues’ work. (And my lack of expertise is always obvious, with comments like: “I dig…

Managing Wordpress from the Command Line with WP-CLI

Lessons From Our First Team Retreat

Being a remote team, Phusers don’t often get to see each other in the physical world. At the end of June, about half our team (James, Matt, Murray, Kelley, Jonathan and myself) flew out to the Mayan Riviera in Mexico for our first team retreat, Project Minga — a…

Why We Have a Client Guide

I hate assumptions. We all do, yet we’re always making them. Assumptions are especially widespread in tech agencies, where too many of us assume our clients always know everything about what we do.