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Michelle Griffin

Michelle has nearly 20 years’ experience in telecoms and media, starting at O2 Ireland and IBM before becoming COO at farmerswife. She leads the development of the farmerswife and Cirkus platforms, blending technical expertise with strong leadership skills.

How to Improve Multitasking Skills: Effective Tips

When managing a project, multitasking skills are essential as you often face numerous tasks simultaneously. Instead of trying to complete everything at once, it’s beneficial to understand how to multitask effectively, as our brain isn’t designed for multiple tasks at the same moment. We become fatigued, overwhelmed, and errors creep in. Want to enhance your […]

Our latest updates – November 2022

Project Requests and Approvals Using Cirkus you can setup a workflow to capture new project or campaign requests for your team. Provide a Request Form in Cirkus to gather these demands, and even pass them through an approval process before creating the project with tasks, subprojects assignees and even dates applied. Project Requests are powered by […]

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Personnel Bookings

Personnel Bookings allow you to schedule resource Vacation, or other non project related events in your team and see these bookings across all projects. You can also use our Booking Template and Request Workflow to gather requests of this type and pass them through an approval process.  Let’s see how it works. Setting up Personnel Bookings Personnel Bookings […]

Sync your Cirkus Schedule with other Calendars

Sync your schedule to other calendars, and see everything in one place and improve coordination with your wider team. You can subscribe to your Personal, Workspace or Project calendar from many external calendars

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Booking Requests

Make resource booking requests available on your Cirkus portal. Capture relevant information and approvals before booking to the schedule.

How to create a successful project scope statement

The creation of a project scope statement template should be your top priority before starting any project. Here we offer you crucial tools to avoid scope creep, improper planning, unclear requirements, and other well-known causes of project failure. Creating a scope statement can be seen as a difficult task, as there isn’t a prescribed way to […]

Cirkus Time Reporting

Now you can use Cirkus to report the time spent on your Projects, Tasks and Bookings.
Easily see if things are on track, or if you need to adjust your plans.

Subtasks – a new level of collaboration

What are Subtasks in Cirkus? You can use Subtasks to split tasks into smaller parts, or to define more detailed goals and assign them to multiple people. Subtasks are full Tasks with their own assignees, dates, comments and files. How to create a Subtask To create a subtask: Working with Subtasks Subtasks in Task Templates […]

Advanced Search and Export

The long awaited search and export feature has landed.
Get cracking with some advanced queries on your tasks, projects and bookings, and export your results to a csv file.

7 Proven ways to optimize your team communication

Team communication is one of the biggest challenges faced by project managers. You might think that a reduced budget or a tight deadline is your worst enemy, but even if they are both under control, your project might fail due to a simple misunderstanding. To prevent it and secure the best outcome for your project, […]

How to identify and improve your team leadership style

The success of your project relies on your team leadership skills. You are in charge of a group of workers, one that you must guide throughout assignments daily. They also look up to you, so they can become better professionals. And it can be challenging, especially if you are a first-time manager. To improve yourself, […]

Beginner’s guide: 5 Phases of project management

Project management is much more than just task assignment. Projects are like stories, with a beginning, a development, and an end, and they should be dealt with in this manner, step by step. This is the idea behind the 5 phases of project management approach, which, as suggested by the Project Management Institute, are named […]