Organising contracting in a moderately sized business

Graeme Johnston / 2 February 2022 Something that’s crept up on me over the years is my frustration with the typical format of contracts, the process for dealing with them and the difficulty of doing much about it in a practical way. Contracts have never been my core business, but I’ve drafted them, negotiated them, […]

Tip cards in Juralio

Sophie Powell-Hall / 27 January 2022 You might have noticed we’ve recently added ‘tip cards’ to Juralio. We’ve given a lot of thought to how to help you use Juralio. Our approach is to make it easy at every step: We show you key things when you first log in and when you first go […]

Less is more in project management: 1869 edition

Graeme Johnston / 18 January 2022 Let’s assume that you’re working on a project with many other people. A project that’s complex, in the sense that there are lots of moving parts, and success depends significantly upon adaptation to developments (for instance, the actions and inactions of people outside your team). Two of the big […]

Rough notes on open source concepts

Graeme Johnston / 29 December 2021 I prepared these notes on “open source” and related concepts for my own purposes, as an attempt to cut through the complexity of this topic. They’re not very profound, but as the topic often seems to be misunderstood, I thought I’d publish them as a very simple introduction to […]

A farewell to cookies

Graeme Johnston / 23 December 2021 Some questions asked to me the other day: Q: Why doesn’t your site have a cookie banner? A: Because we don’t use cookies. Q: Why not? My answer to that second question seemed to interest the questioner. This post summarises the points, in case anyone else finds it interesting […]

Passive-aggressive transparency

Victor Bekink / 14 December 2021 Passive-aggressive transparency defined This is my name for an annoying, time-wasting, potentially stress-inducing behaviour that I suspect almost everyone working on complex projects in a team has, at some point Suffered from. Inflicted upon others – unwittingly or otherwise.  In business today, increasing emphasis is attached to transparency and […]

Milestones, risk and workflow labels, and hashtags come to Juralio 🎉🚀

Molly MacGregor / 07 December 2021 We’re excited to introduce these new elements of Juralio, to help you manage your work better than ever: Milestones Risk labels – with traffic light colours Workflow labels – for capturing things like “on hold” or “under review” Hashtags – with a wide range of uses ♢Milestones: high-level progress […]