Understand the challenges of planning and tracking work as a team
5 min
By the end of this lesson, you’ll be able to:
- Identify the challenges organizations and teams face when coordinating and planning work within and across projects
- Describe the impact of ineffective planning and tracking
Explore coordination challenges
In some organizations, coordination within and across teams on projects is time-consuming and expensive. It fails to provide the clarity every person needs to contribute to the overall goal.
Ineffective work tracking can lead to a host of business costs that will slow down your project.
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Teams move faster towards the right outcomes when they have better processes to plan their work together.
Take control of your planning
Teams should share milestones with clearly articulated dependencies and constraints, and communicate efficiently and effectively so everyone has a clear view of what’s happening, who’s doing it and what it impacts.
👇 Click each box below to explore some of the most common challenges of communicating..
The System of Work
Atlassian’s approach to planning and tracking work is rooted in our System of Work practices. This set of principles is designed to help teams collaborate openly, move quickly, and continuously improve.
We recommend three core best practices to plan and track work:
- Create a shared understanding
- Get clear on the work
- Adapt for impact
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