Running projects
Planning deadlines with a calendar that matches the board
Use a project calendar view to plan agency deadlines: spot clashes on a month grid, schedule from the Unscheduled tray and keep the board in step.
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Gareth Thurlow
Founder, Skybase
Gareth founded Skybase to give agencies and client teams one place for client work, from the brief to the sign-off.
Articles by Gareth Thurlow
Running projects
An inbox your team can triage in ten minutes
Notification overload is fixable. How to manage project notifications with inbox filters, snooze, mute, keyboard triage, email digests and quiet hours.
8 min read
Agency operations
Lead time and throughput: reading your delivery numbers
Lead time vs throughput for agencies: what each delivery metric means, why the median and 85th percentile beat the average, and what to do when they slip.
9 min read
Product guides
Six automations that take hand-offs off your plate
Project management automation for agencies, kept simple: six rules that assign, notify and tidy up at every hand-off, and the limits worth knowing first.
9 min read
Client work
Client approvals without the email chain
A client approval process for agencies: named approvers, review links that open without signing in, a clear decision with a note, and every version kept.
10 min read
Running projects
Kanban for agencies: a board your team and clients will use
How to set up a kanban board for agency work: columns for stages, labels for states, job types, priorities and due dates that everyone can read.
9 min read
Agency operations
How to migrate your agency from Trello in an afternoon
How to migrate from Trello to Skybase with a JSON export: what comes across, how to invite your team and clients, and what to tidy up on day one.
8 min read
Client work
Sharing work with clients: what they should see
How to share a project with clients: what a free guest can see and change, how to keep internal work private, and when a client counts as a paid user.
8 min read