A Comprehensive Guide to Maximizing Collaboration in Your IT PMO

May 21, 2023 - 7 min read

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As an IT Project Management Office (PMO) leader, you understand how critical collaboration is to the success of your organization. When different teams work together effectively, the PMO can deliver high-quality projects faster and more efficiently. Let’s examine the many ways to maximize collaboration in your IT PMO.

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Understanding the Importance of Collaboration in IT PMO

Before we dive into the benefits of collaboration in IT PMO, let's first define what we mean by collaboration. Collaboration is the process of working together toward a common goal, as each team member is expected to bring their individual strengths, skills, and expertise to the table. Collaboration requires open communication, trust, and teamwork.

Defining IT PMO Collaboration

Effective collaboration is essential in IT PMO. It enables teams from different departments to share knowledge and collaborate on complex projects. Collaboration can help align IT projects with overall business objectives, streamline decision-making, and improve project outcomes.

Collaboration within an IT PMO can take different forms. Here are a few examples of IT PMO collaboration:

Team members working on a project together
Departmental collaboration to align IT projects with business goals
Cross-functional team collaboration, where different departments work together to deliver complex projects

Benefits of Effective Collaboration

Collaboration brings significant benefits to the IT PMO, such as:

Improved project outcomes: By leveraging your team members’ strengths and expertise, deliver projects faster, more efficiently, and with greater accuracy.
Better decision making: By pooling the knowledge and expertise of your stakeholders, make informed decisions that align with overall business objectives.
Shared knowledge and expertise: By working together, team members can share what they know and come up with fresh and innovative ideas and solutions. Ultimately, collaboration can foster a positive culture of innovation.

Common Challenges in IT PMO Collaboration

Collaboration in IT PMO comes with its challenges, like:

Organizational silos: Different departments within an organization may work in silos, making it challenging to foster collaboration.
Communication barriers: Poor communication can hamper collaboration, leading to misunderstandings, delays, and missed opportunities.
Resistance to change: Some team members may resist changes to existing workflows and processes.

Establishing a Collaborative IT PMO Culture

Establishing a collaborative IT PMO culture is essential to maximize the benefits of collaboration. Let’s investigate some strategies to foster a collaborative culture within your IT PMO.

Fostering Open Communication

Open communication is critical to effective collaboration. Encourage team members to share their opinions, ideas, and feedback regularly. Create an environment where team members feel comfortable speaking up, even when they disagree with each other. Encourage open communication by scheduling regular team meetings, one-on-one sessions, and brainstorming sessions via collaboration tools like Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom.

Keep in mind that effective communication is not merely about talking but also about listening. This will help to build trust and promote a culture of openness.

Encouraging Teamwork and Trust

Collaboration requires teamwork and trust. Highlight the importance of working together on projects and building strong relationships based on trust. Assign cross-functional team projects that require collaboration and actively support cross-functional teamwork. This will help team members to understand each other's strengths and weaknesses and learn from each other.

Remember that trust is the foundation of any successful collaboration. Encourage team members to trust each other and be transparent in their communication to avoid misunderstandings.

Promoting Continuous Learning and Improvement

Learning is an essential part of effective collaboration. Encourage team members to attend training sessions, conferences, and workshops to improve their skills and share knowledge with their colleagues. Foster a culture of continuous improvement, where team members are encouraged to provide feedback and suggest ways to improve processes and workflows.

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Implementing Collaboration Tools and Technologies

Collaboration tools and technologies can help facilitate effective collaboration within an IT PMO. Here are some of the most common collaboration tools and technologies used in IT PMO.

Project Management Software

Project management software enables teams to collaborate on project planning, tracking, and reporting and to manage project timelines and resources, assign tasks, and monitor progress.

Project management software can also help teams identify potential roadblocks early on and take corrective action before they become major issues. By providing real-time visibility into project progress and resource utilization, project management software can help teams prioritize tasks, allocate resources effectively, and make informed decisions to stay on schedule.

Communication Platforms

Communication platforms such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom provides a space for communication and collaboration among team member since you can work in real time, share files, and hold virtual meetings.

Communication platforms can also help teams stay connected and informed, no matter where they are located. By providing a centralized platform for communication, communication platforms can help teams collaborate more effectively and make faster decisions.

File Sharing and Document Collaboration Tools

File sharing and document collaboration tools such as Google Drive, SharePoint, or Dropbox let teams collaborate on documents and files in real time. They allow team members to share, edit, and review documents collaboratively, streamlining the workflow.

These tools can also help teams reduce the risk of errors and inconsistencies. By providing a centralized platform for document management, file sharing, and document collaboration, project management software helps teams ensure that everyone is working on the latest version of a document.

Developing Collaborative Processes and Workflows

Developing collaborative processes and workflows can help enable effective collaboration within an IT PMO. Here are some strategies to develop collaborative processes and workflows.

Aligning IT PMO Goals and Objectives

Aligning IT PMO goals and objectives with overall business goals allows for smooth collaboration between departments. Remember to communicate this alignment to the teams involved so everybody can understand the importance of collaboration and encourage cross-functional teamwork.

If the overall business objective is to increase customer satisfaction, the IT PMO can align its goals to support this objective by prioritizing projects that improve customer experience, such as implementing a customer service chatbot or improving website navigation.

Streamlining Decision-Making Processes

Complex decision-making processes can hamper collaboration. Streamline the decision-making process by establishing clear roles and responsibilities, defining decision-making timelines, and communicating decisions effectively.

If a decision needs to be made regarding a project timeline, the IT PMO can put forth a clear timeline for when the decision needs to be made and who is responsible for making the decision. This can be communicated to all relevant team members to ensure that everyone is on the same page.

Facilitating Cross-Functional Collaboration

Cross-functional collaboration is critical to the success of IT PMO. Encourage this collaboration by assigning cross-functional team projects, holding cross-functional team meetings, and facilitating cross-functional communication and feedback.

If a project involves both the IT and marketing departments, the IT PMO can assign a cross-functional team to work on the project. This team can include members from both departments and can meet regularly to discuss progress and provide feedback.

Facilitating cross-functional communication and feedback is also important. The IT PMO can establish communication channels, such as a shared project management tool or regular team meetings, to encourage team members to share information and provide their opinions on processes and workflows.

Conclusion

Effective collaboration is the key to a successful IT Project Management Office. Collaboration requires teamwork, trust, and open communication. By implementing the strategies and tools listed in this article, you can create a collaborative culture within your IT PMO that maximizes the benefits of collaboration.

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Project Management 5 min read

Dark Matter of Work: The Cost of Work Complexities in The PMO

Efficiency is everything for organizations – especially as we face a possible recession and mass layoffs continue. Plus, the way we work continues to evolve and become more complex, causing efficiency to suffer even more. Over the past few years, modern work complexities have been eating away at your bottom line through an invisible yet powerful presence in your organization — what we call the Dark Matter of Work. Just as CERN identified Dark Matter as the “invisible” content that makes up 95% of the mass of the universe, the Dark Matter of Work represents activity and details that we can’t immediately see but that have a significant influence on everything around it. From the tools we use to conduct our work to where and when we execute it, work complexities have truly exploded in recent years and will only become more complicated over time — making it increasingly difficult for employees and business leaders to get visibility into work and truly understand work in progress. Wrike is focused on shining a light on the Dark Matter of Work. That’s why we recently commissioned research to investigate its impact on PMO leaders, employees, and organizations as a whole. We wanted to understand to what extent Dark Matter exists and discover the financial cost of Dark Matter affecting us all. The results are staggering and can point PMOs towards key ways they can increase efficiency to endure the unknown economic future. Let’s explore the results. Impact on the PMO While we cannot “see” the Dark Matter of Work, we can identify where it exists. It lives in synchronous applications and unstructured work, such as instant message threads and video calls, as well as the gaps between systems and applications that aren’t integrated. Without a single work platform that is powerful and versatile enough to track, manage, action, and align all work to goals across an organization, there exists a dangerously low level of visibility amongst knowledge workers and leaders. At present, most project managers and PMO leaders generally have little visibility into the work their teams are doing and cannot track the progress of much of that work in real time. And if we ask knowledge workers, they say employer visibility into their work is even lower — suggesting there may be more Dark Matter of Work than we think. Wasted time Time wasted on activities such as repeating work that’s already been done, attending unproductive meetings, or following up on actions and statuses costs the average enterprise millions. The cost of the Dark Matter of Work The total cost of Dark Matter for PMOs and project managers is quite substantial and will continue to increase exponentially unless addressed. Low visibility For business and PMO leaders, visibility into work has only increased slightly since 2020 — from 48% to 51%. And other project managers are struggling to view their assignments and expectations. More human costs Amid the Great Resignation, the mass layoffs, and the continuing remote work environment, PMOs must work to address the human costs of the Dark Matter of Work, as well. Too many applications As hybrid work continues, PMOs rely more and more on applications to stay connected. But many of these tech tools do not integrate with each other, decreasing visibility, increasing wasted time, and resulting in duplicative work. Plus, app integration is also moving at a slow pace from 2020 (43%) to now (49%). Looking ahead If left unchecked, Dark Matter will increase by 42% in the next five years. According to the survey, the projected cost of Dark Matter in 2027 looks to be: How can you minimize these costs? A single source of truth is essential. PMOs need a solution that is robust enough to manage and orchestrate complex workflows and simple enough for team members to use. The organization with full visibility into these workflows and applications and the data they create at all levels will be best equipped to overcome the impacts of the Dark Matter of Work and come out on top. For more on the Dark Matter of Work, its costs, and the solutions, check out the full report here — and usher in a new age of digital collaboration. Or start a free two-week trial of Wrike today to see how our work management solution can centralize work and increase efficiency for your PMO!

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The Ultimate Guide to Project Management

If you're learning about project management for the first time and you've come across our Wrike blog, you'll realize we've written quite a lot of articles on IT project management, methodologies, and leadership strategies over the years. We collected the best of the best into one ultimate guide to help you understand and learn all about project management. Great for knowing where to study project management as a beginner. It's organized here by general topic, so it's easy to find what you need. Project Management Fundamentals: Learning the Basics There is much to learn in the art of managing a project. For beginners to the field, (and for those willing to review the basics) here's a list of common methodologies, terms, and tips on where to study project management as a beginner. These will also be helpful for learning how to teach project management and introduce the basics to your team! 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If we cease to learn new things, we set ourselves up for failure. Here are strategies and lessons for honing your management skills and refine your project management approach. How Neuroscience Can Make You a Better Project Manager 4 Lessons Hockey Has Taught Me About Project Management 5 Project Management Ideas that Should be Extinct 10 Phrases That Can Ruin Your Project Kickoff Meeting Is your team self-organizing? Who Works More? The Secrets of Male and Female Working Habits in Wrike's New Infographic How to Stay Motivated at Work: The Science of Productive Breaks [INFOGRAPHIC] 8 Attitudes Guaranteed to Sink Your Agile Projects 5 Project Management Lessons to Superheroes [VIDEO] 15 Books Every Manager Should Read Productivity: Tools and Tips for More Efficient Work There are many tools out there that can help you streamline your day, mitigate distractions, and get things done more efficiently. 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[INFOGRAPHIC] Making the Most of Project Management Courses Why (and How) Small Businesses Choose Project Management Software Hope you enjoyed this ultimate guide to project management. Would you add other helpful articles to help people learn? Please share any of your suggestions in the comments. Share this guide with your friends and colleagues to spread the wealth of knowledge!

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Asana Alternatives for Better Project Management

If you're looking for a versatile work management platform for your team, chances are you've come across many options. As different businesses have varying needs, there are many highly-rated solutions that dominate this space. When it comes to modern project management tools with valuable features and essential functionalities at reasonable pricing, you'll notice Wrike or Asana on the shortlist. At first glance, many features may look similar between these two systems. But after some inspection, you’ll find some significant differentiators that make each platform unique. Let’s compare Asana to Wrike as well as to other common Asana competitors, Trello and Monday.com — so you can understand why Wrike is the best Asana alternative. Or start a free two-week trial of Wrike to jump straight in and see for yourself! Try Wrike for freeRequest a demo What is Asana? Asana is a collaborative project management software. It provides essential features focused on streamlining organization-wide collaboration and managing team workloads. Asana helps track project progress and provides visibility into ongoing projects. The tool is useful for organizations in the process of streamlining project execution and encouraging better team collaboration. It does this well but doesn't provide a wide range of functionalities beyond simple project management and alignment. Asana pros Asana allows teams to manage all their work and projects in one place from an approachable and simplified interface. Asana offers some pros including: User-friendly, intuitive interface Multiple views for the same work Decent user reviews and ratings Free-forever option, or payment plans starting at $11/month per user Ability to assign tasks with due dates and timelines Some automated workflows, reporting, and integrations Asana cons Though Asana is a decent work management platform liked by its users, a few key areas could be improved. The biggest Asana cons are: Too simplistic to scale. Most agree that Asana is best suited for basic task management as opposed to enterprise project management. In Asana, work is confined to only four levels of hierarchy: portfolio, project, task, and subtask. With no folder options, users are forced to diminish complex projects into only these levels. Pricing is expensive. Asana’s most basic plan costs $11/month per user, making it one of the more expensive work management tools on the market. Limited reporting and visibility. Asana offers very limited reporting and analytics views. While the graphs in Asana are very colorful and easy to build, they are not very detailed or insightful. Plus Asana does not offer shared saved reports, so each individual user must rebuild or duplicate a report in order to save them. The calendar view does not display subtasks. And setting up dependencies is manual and difficult, making the Gantt chart challenging to use. Only allows for one assignee. Asana does not allow users to assign more than one individual to a task or approval, which makes collaboration difficult, creates confusion around accountability, and results in multiple tasks to capture duplicate work. No account-wide standardization. Many Asana features are tied to the specific project they live in, making scalability and standardization across the account difficult and completely manual. If your team wants to continue to use the same request form, workflow, or automations from project to project, you’ll have to duplicate that project, form, workflow, and automation every time you want to create a new project that follows the same process. Plus, Asana only allows statuses at the project level, and they are not customizable. This makes it difficult for teams whose workflows follow a different or more complex sequence. Why should you use Asana alternatives? Asana may have a colorful design, but it also has some significant limitations in its project management capabilities. The tool sells itself as a cross-functional platform capable of managing complex work easily, but its lack of features leaves busy teams that handle large-scale projects wanting something more. So if you’re looking for project management software that’s a better fit for your team than Asana, you can learn more about the top Asana alternatives below. Top Asana alternatives Now that you understand the pros and cons of Asana, let’s compare the tool to its competition. In our opinion, the best Asana alternative is Wrike. But let’s dive into the details to compare the features and capabilities of the top three alternatives to Asana: Wrike, Trello, and Monday.com. Asana vs. Wrike In our opinion, Wrike is the best alternative to Asana. And with its recent Wrike Lightspeed updates, Wrike decidedly beats Asana with: Cheaper pricing Ease of use and scalability Better reporting and visibility Multiple assignees Enhanced collaboration Cheaper pricing Asana does offer a free-forever option, but its limited functionality isn’t worth it. Wrike offers plans starting at $9.80/month per user. Even to match just some of the functionality in Wrike’s Team plan, Asana’s Basic plan won’t cut it. You’ll have to at least upgrade to Asana’s Premium plan and pay $11/month per user — making Wrike the cheaper, more valuable option. Easier to use and scale Until recently, many users considered Asana’s modern user interface to be more intuitive than Wrike’s. But with Wrike’s recent UI overhaul as part of Wrike Lightspeed, users can now leverage the robust capabilities of Wrike in a more simplistic design. Plus, Wrike allows more intuitive and infinite nesting for item types, while Asana only offers four levels of hierarchy. Asana is quite limited here, resulting in entire subprojects being dwindled to a single task or dumping all tasks from every subproject into the same location, creating chaos and clutter. Unlike in Asana, Wrike users can use folders to house multiple projects or tasks — making it easier to stay organized and build a scalable work environment. Better reporting and visibility Asana’s design may be simple, but so are the tool’s reporting capabilities. Wrike provides in-depth automated reporting, which significantly reduces the time teams spend generating and distributing reports. Wrike lets you create shareable reports on projects, tasks, and subtasks, so you can get a complete 360-degree view of your team’s productivity and efficiency. Plus, Wrike lets you customize how each user views reports or dashboards. For example, if you created a dashboard for “Assigned to Current User,” then any and every user who clicks into that report will see items assigned to them. In Asana, you’d have to build a dashboard for each individual user to capture that information. Multiple assignees Wrike allows multiple users to be assigned the same task, approval, or project. This reduces siloes and brings multiple stakeholders into the same work item to discuss, review, or approve items. It’s especially great for teams who collaborate cross-functionally and for facilitating a discussion between creators or reviewers. In Asana, you can only assign one person to each work item — which restricts visibility and collaboration. To work around this issue, Asana users end up duplicating tasks to capture the work for each assignee or stakeholder. If four people need to review an asset, then you’ll need four separate approval tasks in Asana. This can create very cluttered projects with a long list of tasks as well as multiple siloed areas that complicate communication. Enhanced collaboration Asana can’t match Wrike’s cross-tagging functionality. Wrike allows users to add items to multiple projects or folders, which means the same task can live in multiple places so users don’t have to navigate to different places for an update. Asana does offer a “multi-homing” feature that allows users to link the same task to multiple projects, but it’s limited to just tasks and subtasks and can’t cross over into other portfolios — creating silos and preventing cross-functional collaboration. Wrike empowers users with all the context they need in as many locations as they need it. Collaborating with reviewers via approvals is also easier in Wrike than in Asana. With Wrike, users can automatically hand off work to multiple team members with a simple status update on a single task or project, eliminating bottlenecks throughout review and approval processes. In Asana, features like automated approvals can’t be standardized across an account, forcing users to duplicate set-up and maintenance of each project to create any type of approval standardization across the account. Plus, Asana users are limited to one approver per task — creating multiple, duplicate, siloed approvals. Try Wrike for freeRequest a demo Asana vs. Trello In second place, Trello is a decent alternative to Asana. But Trello has its own limitations, so let’s compare the two. Primarily a Kanban-style project management tool, Trello beats Asana with: Better Kanban board view. Both Asana and Trello offer board views, but Trello is specifically designed as a Kanban tool and offers more customization there. So if you prefer to work in a board view, Trello might be a better fit for you and your team. Cheaper pricing. Trello and Asana both offer free-forever options, but they’re very limited in their functionality. To upgrade and get similar capabilities and views, you’d need to pay $11/month per user for Asana’s Premium plan compared to the slightly less expensive $10/month per user for Trello’s Premium plan. Free automations. Trello’s free plan is more designed for complex, repeatable processes than Asana. On Trello’s free plan, users can automate actions like various steps in their workflows. If you want to match that functionality in Asana, you’ll have to upgrade to one of its paid plans. But Asana offers a wider variety of views and better time tracking than Trello. On Asana’s free plan, users can leverage list, board, and calendar views — with more detailed views like timeline and workload available on other paid plans. Additionally, Trello doesn’t offer native time tracking like Asana does on its Business plan. Asana vs. Monday.com In third place, Monday.com is another alternative to Asana. Monday.com is a cloud-based software that allows teams to create custom workflows to plan, run, and track processes, projects, and everyday work. Here are some key ways that Monday.com beats Asana: Cheaper pricing. While both tools offer a free-forever option, you’ll likely need to upgrade to access key functionality within each tool. On the first available plan, Monday.com is the more cost-effective option at $8/month per user compared to Asana’s $11/month per user. Better spreadsheet view. Monday.com is mostly a spreadsheet-like tool, while Asana provides a very limited spreadsheet view and focuses more on improving its other work views. If you prefer to work in columns and rows, Asana may not be the right choice since you can only sort by one column at a time and their filtering capabilities need some improvement. Easier time tracking. Monday.com offers great features and reporting for tracking time on the Pro plan for $16/month per user. To match that functionality in Asana, you’d either have to spend time building a third-party integration or upgrade to the Business plan for $25/month per user. On the other hand, Asana offers better approvals and integrations than Monday.com. Asana offers easy-to-use task approval features, which Monday.com does not. These approvals are critical in helping users receive or provide feedback quickly. Additionally, Monday.com only offers 50 integrations, while Asana offers 200. A lack of integrations can result in more manual work for your teams or admins. More integrations means more automation capabilities as well as more time saved on manual builds. Try Wrike for freeRequest a demo Learn why people choose Wrike over Asana today Overall, Wrike is the best alternative to Asana. While Asana is a good option for teams who need to manage a small amount of work, it's hard to stay organized or scale. If you want to streamline team management and have all of your team's workflows and processes standardized in one place while enhancing collaboration, then Wrike is the ideal tool for you at only $9.80/month per user. Asana’s plans are limited and rely on workarounds or integrations to make up for the lack of key features, like multiple assignees, robust reporting, task-level statuses, and more. If you need a platform that has all the automation and work management features you need in an easy-to-use, customizable interface, Wrike is the best option out of all the Asana competitors or other apps like Asana. Start a free trial to see how Wrike enables 360-degree project visibility, powers smart automation, and transforms strategy into results.

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A Comprehensive Guide to Maximizing Collaboration in Your IT PMO