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Deliver complex projects on time

Collaboration methods and software that enable your teams to focus on the right work at the right time so that they can deliver on time.

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Late projects are frustrating, and they’re not your fault

“Modern day” project management methods were developed over 60 years ago when long distance phone calls were considered high tech compared to postal mail. Worse yet, the tools built to facilitate those dated methods can’t accommodate the speed, uncertainty, and complexity inherent in today’s product development cycles.

The result? Team members are working on the wrong thing at the wrong time — so the project slides a day without anyone noticing. This keeps happening until the target dates have come and gone. And no one knows why.

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Developing great products shouldn’t be this hard!

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A better approach to project management

Playbook is a paradigm-shifting Project Management and Team Collaboration platform that ensures every team member has correct priorities, every day, for all their projects. This results in predictable end dates, happier teams (who don’t have to multitask), and status reports that are up-to-date and available 24/7 in real time.

The solution was developed by engineers with extensive experience in process science who spent many years helping teams improve their product development processes and tools. It was designed to facilitate the best practices from Lean, Agile, and Critical Chain and modify them so they work for complex projects such as R&D.

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Getting started with Playbook
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  • Get a flexible Free Trial with access to all features, with no commitment to purchase.
  • Import your existing project plans from the planning tools you currently use.
  • Receive comprehensive training and live coaching while using Playbook on one of your active projects.
  • Use your Free Trial site until all stakeholders believe it will work in your company.

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Why choose Playbook?

Playbook integrates resource management, visual work management, and plan management into one system so you can manage priorities across multiple projects and identify schedule risks with real-time status reports across your portfolio.

  • Process-driven views

    Playbook has views designed to facilitate key methods from Lean, Agile, and Critical Chain: Decentralized Planning, Standup Meetings, Daily Task Updates, and more…

  • Real-time status reports

    Status reports shouldn’t take time to generate and they should be accurate. Every report in Playbook is up to date and available 24/7 in real-time. All of the information is directly from the database so there's no personal interpretation of the data before you see it.

  • Meaningful KPIs

    Tired of finding out at the last minute that you’re going to be late? Meaningful KPIs create an early warning system that tells you weeks in advance when key metrics are going off track. That way, you have plenty of time to respond.

  • Built-in process science

    The results may seem like magic but they’re really just a branch of science that most people haven’t studied. But don’t worry, the principles are built in so it’s not necessary to learn them unless you would like to. And in that case, we have plenty of free training that explains how it all works!
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And don’t worry if there’s never a good time to start an improvement initiative--we have a lot of experience helping companies fix the plane while it’s flying.

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