Using Monday.com as a Project Management Tool
For some terribly busy managers, formally learning the ins and outs of a workflow management tool such as Monday.com sounds counterproductive. Even daunting for others. It’s all good if you decide to take up a trial subscription and navigate through the various features. However, being that Monday.com is a comprehensive task and resources planner, that too will take a lot of time and effort. This post will take you through a few use cases for Monday.com as a project management tool. The companies and application areas for which the platform has been applied thus far attest to the value it has. When implemented to cover essential workflows, a project management tool almost immediately improves productivity across team members.
Learn Monday.com in 5 Minutes Through Use Cases
Perhaps the real-life use cases presented in this post will give you the motivation to try the platform out. At the very least, you should be able to implement Monday.com to your specific business processes the first time around. While there may be different angles to approach each implementation of Monday.com to the use case, it should be noted how the platform blends with the situation. Put simply, you won’t have to alter your business processes any more than conforming to best practices requires.
Using Monday.com for Software Project Management
Developers, designers, and other nontechnical members of a software product pipeline can have Monday.com as their convergence point. Companies like Uber, Adobe, and Hulu are among the growing list of technology companies relying on the capabilities of Monday.com. It helps them when making sure tasks are carried out as prescribed by objectives and deadlines. It’s not hard to imagine the powerful combination that emerges when you pair a task flow management tool with popular notifications apps such as Slack. Not only would developers know what to work on, but other members of the team also get notified when it’s their turn to chip in. Monday.com thrives when it comes to implementing development methodologies such as agile and scrum. Issue tracking when paired with Jira also makes Monday.com a good platform to use with software development and maintenance teams.
HR Management With Monday.com
Talent is perhaps the most volatile of resources in any organization. That’s why keeping tight-knit working relationships between members of your team is key in getting the most from their presence. Human resources management teams can use Monday.com to maintain good chemistry among coworkers and run routine checks on employees. Inside the platform, you can measure how much effort an employee is putting into their work by comparing how many tasks they’re completing during any chosen time period. The gamification feature allows for an automated version of “employee of the month” competitions. Companies like Unilever and General Electric are just a couple of examples from the many currently using instances of Monday.com.
Marketing and Creative Departments
Marketing agencies can cover a lot of ground with the help of Monday.com. So too can departments responsible for creative outcomes regardless of the nature of their companies. Using Kanban boards, writers can keep tasks up to date and escalate them to other team members with ease. The same goes for designers possibly working in groups to push out campaigns. Document management through the integration of popular applications like Google Drive adds to the collaborative capacity already available within Monday.com. With little implementation effort, you can keep track of document changes, assign said documents to new actors, and sign them off without having to log into a separate system.
Conclusion
These are only a few examples of cases where using Monday.com for project management can provide convenience while improving productivity. The knowledge imparted above is also just the tip of the iceberg when looking at the possibilities associated with this management tool. Even when time-pressed, knowing that a few days set aside to explore the power of Monday.com can simplify and amplify your team’s efforts makes it worthwhile.
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