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Pingpad is a modern project management app for teams that live in Slack. It provides visual planning of a Trello, project and task management of an Asana or Write, and the knowledge base of Wikis. This presentation highlights 7 primitives that every project needs, including best practices and what to expect from any alternative tool.
The 7 Project Management Primitives
Published on Mar 03, 2018
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7 Project Mangement Primitives
By Ross Mayfield, CEO of Pingpad for Slack
Pingpad is a modern project management app for teams that live in Slack. It provides visual planning of a Trello, project and task management of an Asana or Write, and the knowledge base of Wikis. This presentation highlights 7 primitives that every project needs, including best practices and what to expect from any alternative tool.
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Modern project management is more agile, visible and connected. Practices have evolved and tools have changed.
Project management and task management are changing fast. Agile has become widespread, and increasingly is becoming the norm for even non-technical teams. The importance of making work visible while having the flexibility, access and power of digital is now possible. And teams are connected with conversation more than ever.
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Successful projects today share 7 primitives
The 7 primitives are fundamentals when setting up any project and any alternative apps.
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1. Conversation
This is the biggest change in work today, not just for projects. Work has become conversational.
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75% of teams adopted group messaging. Slack is the fastest growing enterprise app and platform in history
This change means most teams moved away from email for communication.
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Teams are more connected than ever, and spend 80% of their time in group messaging
Where your team spends their time, and how they prefer to work, requires adapting your project management tools and practices.
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However, teams suffer from Slack Overload and things slip through the cracks
Does this sound familiar?
Status, ownership and priorities are unclear
Important decisions and details slip through the cracks
People ask the same questions over and over
Discussions and comments are spread all over the place
Status, ownership and priorities are unclear
Important decisions and details slip through the cracks
People ask the same questions over and over
Discussions and comments are spread all over the place
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Kanban boards with agile practices make work flow visible
Two principles of Kanban:
1. Make your work visible
2. Limit your work in progress
1. Make your work visible
2. Limit your work in progress
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Already easy to understand, Trello made the interface familiar to most workers
No need to train your team on a kanban, just focus on your boards, lists and cards
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Every task should have a single owner. The directly responsible individual.
Shared ownership of tasks is lazy and leads to failure. Every thing should be owned by some one.
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Strive for a "I've got this!" culture where people seek ownership
Celebrate ownership. When you see your team pulling ownership to them, you'll know it's working. (It's not hard, but this could be the topic of a whole presentation).
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4. Knowledge
Who stuck knowledge in a project management presentation? How is that productive!
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Your project management app should capture knowledge as a by-product of getting things done
Pingpad makes it easy to capture shared knowledge. Turn the Knowledge Flow of Slack use into a Knowledge Stock.
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Leverage knowledge in-context while getting work done, without interrupting your most valuable people
A system of record for projects means your team gets what it needs to know while doing what they need. Pingpad does this with a modern wiki knowledge base.
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Projects happen collaboratively in real time, shouldn't your apps? Real time synchronous editing like you find in Google Docs gets your team on the same page.
Every task in Pingpad is a Card that is edible by everyone on your team at the same time.
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6. Sort & Report
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The wealth of status, ownership and knowledge should be manageable with a simple and powerful interface
Pingpad's Recent Changes and Table view give you simple yet powerful capabilities for finding, searching and reporting.
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Bots should assist with every action you want to take, without leaving Slack
Since work is now happening in Slack, you need to let your team act without leaving Slack. Bots for native Slack apps can do this.
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Bot should keep your team informed about what they own and move projects forward
Since Pingpad is built on Slack, the team stays informed and aligned.
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Pingpad is the first project management app to provide all 7 Project Primitives. Get started for free at pingpad.net
Even if you don't choose to work with Pingpad, look for these primitives within your practices and toolsets.
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