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Automating reporting for projects, programs and portfolios to avoid stale data and to reduce overhead.

Prioritizing real-time communication and collaboration (particularly for early in career).

Storing all data in a single location for easy access and reporting.

Reducing context-switching as much as possible to allow teams to stay focused from a tool and task perspective.

What we have learned is that success for virtual teams means: Switching between just two projects causes a 20% productivity loss, and it takes up to 23 minutes to regain productivity from an interruption. We also know that switching between multiple tasks has a compounding effect on a worker’s ability to focus and is very expensive from a productivity perspective. Switching between multiple tasks is very expensive Because of this, it is not a surprise that 66% of workers crave a single platform for all their communication.

There are downsides of using multiple tools and context-switching which results in 69% of workers wasting up to an hour each day – that adds up to 32 days per year of wasted time navigating between tools. Using multiple tools and context switching challenges productivity Perhaps not surprisingly, Office 365 was the #1 tool used by virtual teams. What really surprised us is how overwhelmingly team members have embraced the technology that allows them to communicate collaboratively, with over 90% responding that they are satisfied with its use. Remote work and virtual project management are here to stayīased on recent surveys, the remote work trend has accelerated in the past year with 80% of corporate remote work policies shifting to virtual and mixed collaboration. Related: Project & Portfolio Management in the Microsoft Cloud with Sensei IQġ.

In this blog post, we explore these trends and how we have seen our clients successfully transition to a single source of truth and centralized collaboration with project management in Microsoft Teams.

And while each project, program, portfolio, and business is different and their needs vary, there are clear trends in remote work that have emerged and that you should consider. I have the privilege of speaking to individual Project Managers, PMO Directors, and Executives within client organizations on a daily basis.