May Resource Roundup

Looking for insider intel on the latest and greatest tools, services and resources in the industry? Look no further, it’s the monthly resource roundup! Each month, we pull together top recommendations shared by the Bureau community. This edition, you’ll find project management books, invoicing tools, accessibility guides, productivity hacks and much, much more. Get in here, get up to speed and keep a good thing going by sharing favorites with your team and friends.

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Project Management

• Interactive Project Management: Pixels, People & Process by Nancy Lyons & Meghan Wilker

• Project Management for Humans: Helping People Get Things Done by Brett Harned

• The Big Lie Inside Project Management: Why Your Projects Struggle & Often Disappoint

• Resource planning tools: Harvest, Accelo, NetSuite

Hiring & HR

• The 2016 Deloitte Millennial Survey: Winning Over the Next Generation of Leaders

• 60 Performance Review Phrases You Can Use Today

• Employee recognition tools: Bonusly, MahaloHR

• 401(k) providers: Guideline (via Gusto), Tradewinds

Business, Operations & Finance

• The E-Myth Chief Financial Officer: Why Most Small Businesses Run Out of Money & What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber & Fred G. Parrish

• POWERSHiFTER: Grow Your Online Revenue: UX Researching Your Way to Better E-Commerce Experiences

• Invoicing tools & software: Taxjar, NetSuite, Zoho, Invoiced

Accessibility & Compliance

• The ADA Checklist: Website Compliance Guidelines for 2019 in Plain English

• The 2019 Guide to Website Accessibility (for Lawsuit & Demand Letter Prevention)

• The Agency Guide to Web Accessibility

• ADA / WCAG 2.0/1 audits / contractors / reports: SiteImprove, Lighthouse

Productivity Hacks

• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

• The Productivity Pit: How Slack is Ruining Work

• Scheduling platform: Meetingbird

• Email tools: Superhuman, Mailspring, Spark, Station

Design, Web & Dev

• 13 Ways Designers Screw Up Client Presentations

• Stock photos: Unsplash, Pexels

• Inclusive managed web services: Atatus, Uptime Robot, DigitalOcean, Loggly, OSSEC, WordFence Premium, Pingdom

• Heatmaps: Lucky Orange, Concurra

Inspiration

• The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life & Being Unafraid to Feel

• Q&A: How Ikea Recreated Famous TV Living Rooms, Boosting Traffic to Its Products by 50%

• Reflecting on The 11 Laws of The Fifth Discipline (from Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline)

• Creative Types by Adobe Create

Podcasts

• The Bureau Briefing

• Manager Tools Podcast

• Freakonomics 323: Here’s Why All Your Projects Are Always Late—and What to Do About It

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