How to Keep Project Decisions from Getting Lost in Chat
The problem is not that your team doesn't write things down. It's that the one sentence explaining why a decision was made lives in a thread that scrolls away in a week.
Odile Rennick
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Buyer Problems
Problems teams hit before they buy another tool.
How Much Should a Small Team Pay for Project Management?
Per-seat pricing looks fair until you do the math at five, eight and twelve people — then it starts explaining who gets left off the tool, and it's usually the person you most need to see the work.
Dean Halloway
What to Look at When Picking a Tool for a Small Team
Most evaluation checklists compare feature lists and assume everyone will eventually learn the tool. That assumption is the one that breaks first.
Dean Halloway
We Missed a Deadline Because Two People Each Thought the Other Had It
Nobody forgot to assign an owner. The work was a sentence in a chat thread, and a sentence can't have an owner because it isn't a thing yet.
Dean Halloway
Is a Spreadsheet Enough to Run Your Team?
Yes, for a while, and longer than most tool vendors want to admit. Here are the four specific moments when a shared sheet stops being enough, in the order they usually hit.
Odile Rennick
You Don't Have to Move Everything In
The reason most teams never adopt a project tool isn't the tool. It's the imagined weekend of copying three years of history into it before they're allowed to start.
Dean Halloway
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