RespondAbility Managing a Complex Extended Project Use Case Video

Challenge and Success Criteria

A project team with central office and school-based members had to manage through a complex project remotely. Standalone task trackers and traditional project management software made it very hard to keep everything in sync and took a lot of time. This approach resulted in long virtual meetings, delayed responses, missed timelines, and ultimately it put the project at risk of missing its goals.

Results

We share an example of how one team of educators used RespondAbility’s built-in tools and workflows to coordinate their work in a virtual environment. Everything is now in one easy to update and easy to access place with automatic reports and reminders to keep the team informed and on track. Time spent in unproductive meetings or searching through disorganized email threads have been eliminated for everyone involved. The focus is now on activity and results.

Gavin Doughty, Founder/CEO

Gavin is a 15 year veteran of the Chicago Public Schools (Director of Performance Management, Director of Enterprise Architecture) and the State of Illinois (Deputy Chief Operating Officer and interim CIO for the Central Management Services agency. 

At CPS he was responsible for the creation of the nationally recognized Turnaround Performance Management framework and for building CPS’ Information Security and Enterprise Architecture departments.

Gavin has gained a keen appreciation of what’s truly important for success: exceptional communication, the ability to work across multiple organizational levels and the focus to unify educators behind one goal – providing students with a better education.