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Identifying your project challenges

Looking for the right modern project management tools to help you increase efficiency and productivity across your business? To better understand the state of project management in 2023, we conducted our Future of Work Management Report.

The report reveals the responses of 8,000 employees across a wide range of industries, roles and markets, identifying the most common project management challenges faced by most organisations – day-to-day project management, tools & resources, and scalable processes.
 
The findings of the report have been used to create this checklist, a series of questions designed to identify your organisation’s current project management challenges, and the right Smartsheet solutions to address them effectively.

1. Day-to-Day Project Work

The day-to-day project work is what makes the project work. While planning and deadlines are still critical pieces of the puzzle, daily “middle work” – the work that happens day in and day out as teams work to complete a project, and the way in which it’s carried out is what determines project success.
 
Consider the following questions to determine if you’re effectively managing middle work. 

2. The Right Tools & Resources

Most project teams recognise they need the right tools and resources to be successful - however, there seems to be a huge disconnect between senior leaders and the ones actually doing the work with regards to what adequate project support really looks like.
 
Consider the following questions to determine if your business provides adequate tools and resources for you to perform your day-to-day project work.

3. Building on The Right Processes

Projects are only as good as the processes they are built on. We no longer live in a world of one-off projects and must ensure that we implement solutions that provide scalable and repeatable processes.
 
Consider the following questions to determine if you have the right project management processes in place.

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Empower your teams to work better with Smartsheet

The Smartsheet Future of Work Management Report proves companies who allocate more time, resources and support to improving ‘middle work’ are more likely to better optimise their project management and improve team morale. Employees feel more satisfied, less stressed and in control of their work tasks and contributions when they feel properly supported.

To accomplish this, companies can turn to project management software. Smartsheet solutions are designed to help alleviate team workloads by performing specific project tasks in a structured, consistent manner. Investing in the right digital tools has been proven to create significant savings in time, money, resources and work life balance.

Adopting this process mindset rather than a project mindset, and investing in the right tools to optimise and automate processes to manage middle work more effectively, results in companies that are much better equipped for today’s continuous, integrated and more collaborative project work.

With Smartsheet, you can empower your project teams to work better, together. Our unified platform provides the flexible tools, scalable processes, easy software integrations and resources to effectively overcome the three key challenges of effective project management.

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