What Good Looks Like: Project Management
If you bought the tool and somehow made more of a mess, you are not behind and you are not alone. It is one of the most common things a growing team runs into, and it is rarely the software’s fault. Good usually does not mean a better platform. It means a shared agreement underneath the tool about who owns what, what done means, and how work gets in. Most of the way there is a few decisions, not a new system, and there is real ground you can cover on your own this week. Here are a few places to start.
Where it stops: those five clear the clutter you can see. The tool keeps failing until who owns what, what done means, and how work enters are decided and built in, which is the layer underneath the software.
Erin Peshoff is the Chief Curator of Vivia Studios. She has spent thirty years inside nonprofit operations, helped raise over $100 million for institutional missions, and built Vivia around the operating discipline most strategic engagements skip.
