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I have a total experience of 13 years, my last job was an assistant manager with concentrix.
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In my experience, those pieces of biz tend to be sweat shops and the fact leadership relies on a PM tool to save the day illustrates the magnitude of the problem from their POV. Not worth your time
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You’ve hit a painful, common nail on the head.
It is one of the many erroneous assumptions - bordering on magical thinking - in our world.
A tool sitting on top of chaos will not only fail to solve the problems, but will exacerbate them. Also, the experience will more often than not, destroy credibility for PMs tasked with driving implementation and adoption AND perpetuate the notion that we generate overhead not value. A tool facilitates what we bring. It doesn’t create it.
No tool in the world is a replacement for clarity about process and roles and responsibilities, and an appropriately configured PM team that has overt executive and leadership team support.
In a similar vein - an investment in a proper PM lead, let alone 1 or 2 relatively junior PMs, (regardless of their amazing skills as individual contributors or managers with some oversight experience) can unf#^{k an agency within the confines of a ridiculous 30/60/90 that is entrenched in dysfunction and got that way over years.
This is right on. The first thing you need is a process that works. The tool will help faciliate it but isn't a magic wand. But I would take advantage of leaderships willingness to invest in a tool. Rolling out an app like Hive or Monday.com takes planning and needs buy in from everyone or it will just become another bear for PM to wrestle.
When I rolled out Hive I used it as an opportunity to bring other disciplines into the activity so they could have some skin in the game and be accountable for doing their part to make the tool work adn be efficient.
No one wants another thing to do so a big key is showing people the benefits of adopting a new tool and how it will make their lives easier and better.
For example, when I implmenented Hive a lot of people across my organization flipped out because a lot of the things they were dong over email were now moved to Hive and it disrupted thier way of working. But once I was able to show them the benefit of a 90% reduction in email and having a single point of truth for each project (vs info spread across many, many email threads) they quickly got on board!
I love a lot that the current workforce allows but one thing should never be an issue and that is insubordination. If leadership says this is the PM two that we're going to use for this particular client. Then the individuals regardless of what area they cover social creative marketing etc need to study and learn that particular tool. The employer or or p.m. should also have tutorials done or trainings especially if the trainings can be provided complimentary and most cases I believe they are. So with that said it sounds like a leadership issue not so much the tool. It sounds like you are past that point in the situation so I would ask for a pros and cons list from each area. From their leadership that outlines the top five things under pros and cons for each one of those programs.
I think we can all agree a PM tool will never solve the issue but should help flag issues, prepare for the current and upcoming workload, etc. As for compliance, something that has helped is I will take members of the team (small groups) to show them how it’s used. Once they saw what happens when the information is or isn’t entered correctly, compliance begins to increase. It also has helped with getting timesheets submitted in a more timely manner. It doesn’t happen overnight, but over time things got better.
When we implemented a new PM tool, we looked at Trello….however we decided on Hive and we loved it…it was also a very cost effective solution. You might want to to look into hive.com and see if it suits your needs.
After trying multiple tools, we settled on Notion. What sets it apart is its flexibility—it adapts to what’s useful for you rather than forcing you into a rigid system. Every team and project has unique needs, and Notion adds more value because it allows you to build your own workflow, unlike other tools that are strict and limit customization.