Playbook Project Management Software

Late projects are frustrating, and they’re not your fault

“Modern day” project management methods were developed over 60 years ago when long distance phone calls were considered high tech compared to postal mail. Worse yet, the tools built to facilitate those dated methods can’t accommodate the speed, uncertainty, and complexity inherent in today’s product development cycles.

The result? Team members are working on the wrong thing at the wrong time — so the project slides a day without anyone noticing. This keeps happening until the target dates have come and gone. And no one knows why.

A better approach to project management

Playbook is a paradigm-shifting Project Management and Team Collaboration platform that ensures every team member has correct priorities, every day, for all their projects. This results in predictable end dates, happier teams (who don’t have to multitask), and status reports that are up-to-date and available 24/7 in real time.

The solution was developed by engineers with extensive experience in process science who spent many years helping teams improve their engineering processes and tools. It was designed to facilitate the best practices from Lean, Agile, and Critical Chain and modify them so they work for complex projects such as R&D.

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...Playbook added that catalytic capability to use all the other pieces in the right way.

CTO, Grid Solutions Company
The level of communication, the level of accountability, the visibility of progress is unprecedented here. So we are very happy with that.

Engineering Director, Medical Device
A product development cycle is something now that we really understand with consistency, demonstrated repeatability, and the ability to hit schedule...

John Labellarte, VP & Chief Operating Officer of Milwaukee Valve
I like how quickly we can see the impact of a delay on a small task. Now we can see when a task has an impact on the schedule.

Project Manager
My team is empowered. Their day is less confusing. They do their own planning. They are ‘tickled pink’.

Sr. Program Manager
There was added expense of hiring technical services and training our team in the methods used. But conservatively, the savings from the reduced project time paid for this expense within three to four months—at least a 300% ROI.

Sr. Project Manager

Process-driven views

Playbook has views designed to facilitate key methods from Lean, Agile, and Critical Chain: Decentralized Planning, Standup Meetings, Daily Task Updates, and more…
Real-time status reports

Status reports shouldn’t take time to generate and they should be accurate. Every report in Playbook is up to date and available 24/7 in real-time. All of the information is directly from the database so there's no personal interpretation of the data before you see it.
Meaningful KPIs

Tired of finding out at the last minute that you’re going to be late? Meaningful KPIs create an early warning system that tells you weeks in advance when key metrics are going off track. That way, you have plenty of time to respond.
Built-in process science

The results may seem like magic but they’re really just a branch of science that most people haven’t studied. But don’t worry, the principles are built in so it’s not necessary to learn them unless you would like to. And in that case, we have plenty of free training that explains how it all works!