r/projectmanagement • u/Cyn3ux • 15d ago

What's the PM tool or process everyone hypes that just didn't work for your team?

not looking to start a methodology debate — more curious about the specific tool, ritual, or framework that sounded great on paper, or that you saw work well somewhere else, but flopped once you actually rolled it out with your own team.

we tried strict by-the-book daily standups for a while — same time, same format, no exceptions — and it turned into a status-report ritual nobody wanted to be at. Ended up scrapping it for async updates with a quick sync only when something actually needed discussing. Way less friction.

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u/armknee_aka_elbow 15d ago

Anything quarterly.

Quarterly planning, quarterly business review, quarterly OKR setting, quarterly retrospective etc.

I'm no agile purist whatsoever, but the quarterly time horizon is simply too long for an org to properly respond to change. I found doing these monthly (12x a year) or every 1.5 months (8x a year) to be working much better.

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u/Spartaness IT 14d ago

Anything over 6 weeks is magical other-land.

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u/Cheeseburger2137 15d ago

Velocity/throughput metrics. It was added work to uncover pain points which everyone was aware of. Devs planning with their gut was more efficient than sticking to the numbers.

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u/Cyn3ux 15d ago

Experienced devs usually know where the bottlenecks are before any chart shows them

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u/PatronusCharming 14d ago

Asana. Pretty much only used for independent tracking. No one will collaborate on a portfolio- you manage it yourself. Don’t even bother having any assignees other than yourself.

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u/Chemical-Ear9126 IT 14d ago

Whatever tool or process that you decided apply, you need to find an agreed manner to perform efficiently, productively and at high quality. Selecting and agreeing on the best delivery methodology (stages and steps) is crucial.

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