Peoplebox vs. Weekdone

I guess it is a good tool for smaller teams, that work from multiple locations at the same time - it helps to collaborate, and monitors common tasks progress and goals (to be) achieved so far. I guess it is not suited for global corporations yet, as it would require some more detailed features (like bonus calculation based on each team member's performance.

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Weekdone is an incredible tool for helping teams see what their future plans are and the progress that has been made to get accomplish those plans. We use the platform for a way to track things we're working on during the quarter by breaking them down into weekly tasks. It is helpful that we can link each task to our quarterly objectives and set a due date. We can also tag colleagues in our plans and add comments and/or attachments for easy sharing throughout the organization.

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• Allows to easily monitor activities progress.
• Helps in prioritizing tasks.

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• Creating plans, tracking progress, and logging potential problems on one page is very nice.
• The company dashboard allows colleagues to stay up to date on quarterly progress.

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• Integrations with tools like slack and asana are tedious.
• Goals are difficult to link across multiple people.
• Quantitative progress has to be updated manually in absence of the right integrations.

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• User setup and management and team/department creation is not a trivial effort. Requires some deliberate planning.
• The deadlines for plans don't connect to the due dates for tasks in systems of record. That can get confusing when Asana says a task is due next week but Weekdone still has a due date of tomorrow.
• I'd love to see more contextual support for sections like employee feedback. Maybe a sentence or two suggesting feedback based on the report's weekly entry. If a person had three Problems and only one Progress, Weekdone could suggest some corrective action to make it easier for the management to mitigate problems before they get ugly.

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We have a lunch and learn session with Weekdone next week so they can share their tips and tricks for making the most out of the platform. Since we have been using the platform for a while already, this will be helpful so we can ensure we are making the most of the tool.

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Ally and Peoplebox are very similar in nature. Both are fairly intuitive and easy to use, and both offer to create goals and objectives, assigning key results and tracking progress easily. Both tools also offer integrations with other tools like Google sheets, asana, etc but Ally integrations work much better in my experience.

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Weekdone started as a pilot within a single team so we didn't have a formal evaluation and selection process. When the pilot was over, we had developed a skill and affinity for the tool with no clear objections, so no other tools were considered. Our process for regular evaluation of incumbent technology at renewal time asks us to consider the cost to value ratio and user adoption/satisfaction. I don't anticipate there being any reason to consider alternatives, other than the long term viability of small software companies.

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• It has made reviews very easy.
• Organisation has clearly defined goals and tracking.
• Goals and objectives are transparent and open for all to view and comment on- making us very collaborative and open in culture.

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• Catching employee dissatisfaction before it grows and spreads.
• Saved time from having to manually summarize accomplishments from project management systems.
• Provided context into work planned vs work completed and added context to common blockers.
• Provide visibility into progress over time (week / quarter / annual goals) and trendlines for individuals/teams/departments/organization.
• The only negative is, some people grumble at adding yet another system to their workday.

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