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- Chat Apps Dominate All Other Channels<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The ease and simplicity of chat apps can convince teams to use them for virtually all project communications. The problem, of course, is that not everything can or should be made to fit within the confines of a chat box. Some types of communication are best handled through virtual workspaces, while others lend themselves to a phone call, video chat, or email.<\/p>\n
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- Chat Apps Never Go Away<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Chat apps are designed to constantly run in foreground or background of any device: desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphones, and even wearables. What\u2019s wrong with this? Well, it means that chat apps can quickly go from being a friend, to becoming a stalker. They never (ever) go away. And workers who aren\u2019t always or immediately available can be wrongly perceived as \u2014 or falsely accused of \u2014 not doing their job. Instead of liberating and empowering, chat apps can become a kind of robotic micromanager. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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- Chat Apps Trigger Distractibility<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
It\u2019s been known for decades that <\/span>human being process information<\/span><\/a> in two ways, and in two different regions that control the brain. Intentional focus triggers activity in the prefrontal cortex, and brainwaves travel in a top-down direction. Suddenly becoming alert to external stimuli (e.g. hearing a siren or alarm) triggers activity in the parietal cortex, and brainwaves travel in a bottom-up direction.<\/span><\/p>\n
Yes, we all know where this is going: team members need to focus on their important tasks, which means they\u2019re emanating top-down brainwaves. Yet, chat apps buzz them with endless pings and updates, which means they\u2019re flooded with bottom-up brainwaves. Given this battle, is it any wonder why so many people spend an excessive amount of time using chat apps, yet feel exhausted within a few hours and ultimately accomplish far less than they need to? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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- Chat Apps Don\u2019t Put Communication in Context <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
We\u2019ve saved the most egregious gap for last: chat apps don\u2019t put communication in context \u2014 which shouldn\u2019t be surprising, because they were never designed to do this. Like other social media tools<\/a>, chat apps were built to enable and foster organic, emergent real-time activity streams. They weren\u2019t built to make it fast and easy for team members to find and make sense of specific data in an ocean of general information.<\/p>\n
Just Add Planview AdaptiveWork Bot<\/b><\/p>\n
Despite these problems, the advice isn\u2019t for enterprises to kick chat apps off the project management landscape. Rather, the answer is to turn chat apps into a legitimate enterprise-grade work management<\/a> tool \u2014 which is exactly what <\/span>Clarizen\u2019s Bot for Slack<\/span><\/a> does. For example, from within Slack and through a single one-line command team members can:<\/span><\/p>\n
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- Log timesheets to keep projects on track. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The Bottom Line<\/b><\/p>\n
Chat apps have their place in the overall project communication toolkit. But it takes a unique solution like Planview AdaptiveWork\u2019s Bot for Slack to ensure that team members use them to advance the work journey vs. wonder why they\u2019re spending so much time and effort to get so little done. <\/span><\/p>\n
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