5 REASONS

TEAMS FAIL TO COLLABORATE

EFFECTIVELY AT WORK

U.S. study of 200 professionals reveals people waste

9 weeks a year due to poor project collaboration.
Modern teams call for a new way of working together.

Modern Teams At A Glance

Modern teams work with people inside and outside the company
across geographic locations every day to produce work.
CROSS-FUNCTIONAL

VIRTUAL/EXTENDED

GEOGRAPHICALLY DISPERSED

38%

70%

28%

collaborate with team

members across functions
and departments

6%

collaborate with
internal and external
team members

collaborate with
geographically distributed
team members

COLLABORATION TEAMS

5%

Work on teams of:

11%

6 to 15 people
16 to 25 people

12%

66%

5 or less people
more than 25 people
dont know

Everyone is a project manager these days

Theyre trying to keep up with what everyone
is working on, status, tasks, and documents.
Not
primary
role

Certified
project
management
expert

30%

38%

30%

manages projects
but it is not their
primary role

32%

62%

Official, but not

a certified PM

ACCIDENTAL
lead or participate
in projects but are
not project
management certified

UNCERTIFIED

Trying to manage numerous projects, deadlines and tasks

while maintaining visibility into status gets complicated.
30%
25%

RESPONSE

20%
15%
10%
5%
0%

1-5

6-10

11-20

21-30

31-40

41-50

51+

PROJECTS COLLABORATED ON PER YEAR

Five reasons teams fail to collaborate

Resulting in wasted time, frustration and
duplication that hurts morale and the business.

THE TOP 5 PROJECT COLLABORATION HURDLES

42%
Too many emails

40%

39%

35%

33%

Information not
easily accessible to
all project members

No visibility into
individual team
member workload

Hard to collaborate
with cross-functional
team members

Everyone uses
different tools to
manage the project

The Impact on the Team

The Impact on the Business

Projects delivered late (34%)
Quality suffered (33%)
Projects went over budget (24%)

Wasted time (55%)

Frustrated team members (45%)
Duplication of effort (37%)

Current tools failing project teams

"We're using several tools to collaborate,
but they're all different. It's not helping."
EMAIL

SPREADSHEET

PHONE

THE TOP 3 TOOLS USED

FOR PROJECT
COLLABORATION TODAY

73%

62%

An average
of 4.5 tools are
used today to
collaborate on
projects.

53%

33% say
Everyone
uses different
tools.

4 Must Haves for Project Collaboration

An online place to collaborate, discuss, and share all in real-time.

43%

say they need an all-in-one

solution that must include:
Document Sharing
Project Planning
Workload Visualization
Project Dashboards

46%

44%

Document sharing
with version control
and iteration

Project planning,
scheduling, charting,
and milestone tracking

44%

42%

Workload
visualization by project,
team or individual

Dashboard
to track multiple
projects

To succeed, teams want

one place to collaborate.
Thats Projectplace!

Study conducted by Appleseed Partners,

commissioned by Planview with 200 participants
from North-American based companies.

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