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Current collaboration tools failing U.S. project teams according to Planview study
U.S. team members waste up to 9 work weeks per year trying to collaborate on projects using an average of 4 partial tools.
The current collaboration technologies U.S. project teams use to address modern business challenges lead to inefficiencies that cause them to waste more than two working months per year, adversely impacting project timeliness, quality and cost. This is according to the results of a new project collaboration survey of more than 200 business professionals commissioned by Planview and conducted by independent consulting and research firm Appleseed Partners.
The survey findings show that the use of disparate tools – both legacy tools and newer collaboration point solutions – is especially harmful to the 70 percent of employees engaging in project collaboration with distributed teams (such as contractors, consultants, agencies and employees), 38 percent working cross functionally, and a third attempting to collaborate across geographies and time boundaries.
“Everyone is a project manager these days and – while most are not certified project managers according to the survey results – they are working on teams that are increasingly virtual and dispersed both inside and outside organizations,” said Jason Morio, segment marketing manager for Planview Projectplace. “This extended team dynamic makes it even more critical to know who’s working on what, keep everyone on the same page, track progress and tasks, share documents, etc., but current toolsets are letting them down.”
Survey Highlights
Traditional and newer disparate tools lead to collaboration hurdles:
Dire consequences:
What project teams need to succeed: Modern project collaboration in an all-in-one solution:
Facilitating virtual teams
“The escalating business challenges associated with team collaboration is the reason Planview acquired Swedish product Projectplace last year,” continued Morio. “Because Projectplace uniquely facilitates people working across many different organizations and time zones, it has more than one million users in 170 countries. Planview has aggressive expansion plans for Projectplace in North America and has integrated its sales organizations to support direct and indirect sales to small teams as well as enterprises.”
One of the first Projectplace customers in the U.S. is Florida Virtual Campus, headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida.
“Projectplace is enabling us to collaborate on a major website redesign across 27 people, including our internal team spread across three campuses in Tallahassee, Gainesville, and Tampa as well as our external vendors,” said Susanne Korta, manager, Office of Process and Project Management, Florida Virtual Campus. “The ability to connect, collaborate and focus on achieving our ambitious timeline all in one tool is making all the difference.”
These survey results corroborate many of the findings of the Projectplace “The Chaos Theory” report based on the responses of 1,200 project managers in six European countries.
About Projectplace
Projectplace, an all-in-one project collaboration platform in the Planview family, was launched in 1998 as one of the world’s first online Software-as-a-service tools. Today, close to 1 million users, collaborating on 150,000 projects globally rely on Projectplace to get things done. Users include some of the world’s biggest and best known organizations, such as Carlsberg, Sony, Vodafone, BP and AEG.
More information about the survey, click here.
For more information:
Leslie Silver, anthonyBarnum Public Relations
leslie@anthonybarnum.com, +1 512 329 5670 ext. 104
Topics
- Data, Telecom, IT
Categories
- project collaboration
- study
- effective project management tools
Planview is a global leader in portfolio management and project collaboration. From small teams to large enterprises, leaders in every industry rely on the company’s cloud solutions to empower organizations to reach their goals and drive results by optimizing the capacity of their people and financial resources. Planview’s singular focus fuels a deep commitment to innovation and customer success. For more information, visit www.planview.com and www.projectplace.com.