Tuesday 31 May 2011

Why Email Isn’t Enough to Manage Projects and Teams

Despite all our whining and complaining, email is a terrific tool. Stop laughing, it is. The problem with many teams and the way we manage them is that it’s the tool that gets used (and abused) the most. People leave long email threads that make it a bear to search. We file the same email under different names. We’re working with different versions of the same document, resulting in wasted time, rework and frustration.

Whether managing projects or your functional team, information just doesn’t flow the way email works. So what can you use to help people store information, access it as needed and help everyone find what they need when they need it? A collaboration tool that stores, accesses, organizes and creates a logical picture of the whole project is what we really need.

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Why Email Isn’t Enough to Manage Projects and Teams