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Team Adoption, Project Success
Avinoam Nowogrodski   (January 14, 2008)




No project management solution, no matter how good, can work effectively if all relevant stakeholders fear the technology or don’t understand its benefits. Here are four steps to encourage team use of project management tools.

The way businesses manage projects has undergone a significant shift, but too many project managers and team members do not yet have the right tools allowing them to adapt to this new reality. Just as it has transformed the way we shop, the way we travel and the way we stay connected, the Web has reshaped the ways we collaborate and make decisions. Frequently one of the most difficult issues confronting an organization is gaining acceptance of this shift, especially when it comes to adoption of project management software.
 
As with any change in work processes that moves staff from standalone, often paper-based methods to automated computerized systems, some will be eager to adopt software to help projects run more smoothly, accurately and collaboratively; some will be reluctant to do so because they either don’t understand the software’s benefits or fear the technology. Some managers simply love having every aspect and update of a project literally at their fingertips with integrated project management software; some just can’t bring themselves to crawl out from under the spreadsheets and sticky notes.



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