{"id":18867,"date":"2021-04-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/project-management-progress-reporting-tedious\/"},"modified":"2021-04-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T05:00:00","slug":"project-management-progress-reporting-tedious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/project-management-progress-reporting-tedious\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Project Management Progress Reporting So Tedious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <!-- .post-meta --><\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_0 et_section_regular\">\n<div class=\" et_pb_row et_pb_row_0\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4  et_pb_column_0 et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text et_pb_module et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_text_align_left  et_pb_text_0\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p>History is full of stories of how little things, if left untended, can eventually bring really big things down in a heap of dust. Like empires. Like civilizations. And yes, like projects, too. And while we&#x2019;ll leave a discussion of empires and civilizations for another day, we can certainly spend a few minutes here looking at one of the project management world&#x2019;s most deceptively small threats: <strong>progress reporting<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img class=\"lazyload\" title=\"project management report\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2017\/05\/Reporting-Tedious-1.jpg\" alt=\"project management report\" height=\"400\"><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How Important is Progress Reporting?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ask any project manager how important <strong>progress reporting<\/strong> is to the success (and sanity) of a project, and the response you&#x2019;ll receive will be in the form of a facial expression that translates into: How important is oxygen to breathing?<\/p>\n<p>That&#x2019;s because, while there are many important <a href=\"\/keys-to-succeeding-at-enterprise-project-management\">parts and pieces of a project<\/a>, progress reporting is at the core. Without reliable and updated <strong>progress reporting<\/strong>, knowing whether a project is at point A or at point Z is at best an educated guess, and at worst a desperate stab-in-the-dark. Neither of those cut it when money, time and jobs are on the line (not to mention innocent, helpless stress balls).<\/p>\n<p>So yes, we all know that <strong>progress reporting<\/strong> is important. So then, why &#x2013; exactly &#x2013; do so many <strong>project management software<\/strong> solutions make it SO TEDIOUS to report progress?<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-cta\">\n<div id=\"content-cta-text\">Increase your business agility with Planview AdaptiveWork&#x2019;s project management software<\/div>\n<div id=\"content-cta-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarizen.com\/resource\/product-tour\/?refer=blogpost\">Take a Product Tour<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>It&#x2019;s All in the Software<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many <strong>project management solutions<\/strong> require project team members to log into cumbersome software, navigate their way through a maze of updates and reminders and report their progress via some bloated and pretentious interface.<\/p>\n<p>And for project managers, that means project team members who dislike tedious things aren&#x2019;t reporting their progress in a reliable and efficient manner. Instead, they report it after being nagged, begged and\/or threatened. As complicated and risky as project management already is, it just seems bizarre that some <strong>project management software<\/strong> makes <strong>progress reporting<\/strong> part of the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, not all <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarizen.com\/work\/project-management-solutions\">project management solutions<\/a><\/strong> are created equal! And that&#x2019;s why the few solutions that truly understand what project managers deal with on a day-to-day basis offer progress reporting via email, mobile apps or other &#x2018;outside the application&#x2019; means.<\/p>\n<p>Using these progressive, intuitive methods, project team members can review expected progress and update actual progress without having to log into anything. They simply hit a few keystrokes, click the &#x201C;submit&#x201D; button, and that&#x2019;s it. Progress is updated. Project managers know what&#x2019;s going on. No more begging, pleading, threatening or guessing. It&#x2019;s bliss.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, maybe bliss is an exaggeration. But anything that makes <strong>progress reporting<\/strong> easier is to be celebrated.<\/p>\n<p>Because while there&#x2019;s (yet to be) a civilization or empire felled by tedious <strong>progress reporting<\/strong>, there&#x2019;s a countless number of projects &#x2013; and, sadly, project managers &#x2013; who have.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!-- .et_pb_text --><\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_code et_pb_module  et_pb_code_0\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_code_inner\">  <\/div>\n<p> <!-- .et_pb_code_inner --><\/div>\n<p> <!-- .et_pb_code --><\/div>\n<p> <!-- .et_pb_column --><\/div>\n<p> <!-- .et_pb_row --><\/div>\n<p> <!-- .et_pb_section --><\/p>\n<div class=\"client-logo\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarizen.com\/customers\/\" title=\"Siemens Energy\"><img class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2020\/08\/siemens_energy-200x100.png\" alt=\"Siemens Energy\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarizen.com\/customers\/\" title=\"IIROC Success\"><img class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2020\/07\/IIROC_logo-200x100.gif\" alt=\"IIROC Success\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarizen.com\/customers\/\" title=\"Financial Services Institution\"><img class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2020\/04\/FINANCIAL-SERVICES-IMG-200x100.jpg\" alt=\"Financial Services Institution\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarizen.com\/customers\/\" title=\"M Squared\"><img class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2020\/03\/m-squared-logo-200x100.jpg\" alt=\"M Squared\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarizen.com\/customers\/\" title=\"Aliancys Success\"><img class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2019\/12\/aoc_aliancys-logo-800x400-200x100.jpg\" alt=\"Aliancys Success\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarizen.com\/customers\/\" title=\"Bonfiglioli Success\"><img class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/media.planview.com\/clarizen\/wp-content\/upload\/2019\/11\/bonfiglioli_logo-800x400-200x100.jpg\" alt=\"Bonfiglioli Success\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History is full of stories of how little things, if left untended, can eventually bring really big things down in a heap of dust. 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And while we&#x2019;ll leave a discussion of empires and civilizations for another day, we can certainly spend a few minutes here looking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pmo-project-management-organizations"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Is Project Management Progress Reporting So Tedious?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you find project management progress reporting 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