Today, excuses are still a part of doing business, but we’ve seen a complete 180 on the amount of excuses that are project management or workflow related. We have a strict “No Excuses” ( Here’s a free book we wrote on how we manage) policy at Hubstaff, yet 9 months ago we had long email threads full of them. Until we started using Trello 8 months ago, we were plagued by them. You’ll assign something to Person A, ask about it a few weeks later and they’ll say, “I didn’t realize that was a priority”. Person A will blame person B, and Person C will say they couldn’t do their job because they were waiting on Person A. No matter how many meetings you have or plans you write up, someone will always be confused about who is responsible for what. If you own a business or have been part of a business, you know what we are talking about.
Since the dawn of time, workflow and project management have been befuddling almost any group of people trying to accomplish anything. It takes something classic and adapts it to the wonderful world of technology, creating a tool that is helping streamline modern businesses everywhere. I think that’s why, when it comes to project management we are such fans of Trello.
Bulletin boards have helped bring people together for a long time. They’re simple, they’re visual and they work. You can easily see what’s going on, what other people are up to, communicate with people who aren’t around you, and remind people of stuff. Sometimes even when it comes to technology the best ways of doing things are the old fashioned ones.
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