Leantime Launches Project Management Platform for Non-Project Managers with Neurodiversity in Mind
3 min readCHARLOTTE, NC / August 9, 2023 /Leantime, a developer of AI-powered, science-based office expertise options, immediately introduced the launch of its open-source and cloud-based undertaking administration system for the non-project supervisor. Unlike different work administration instruments which concentrate on juggling and finishing duties, Leantime combines the most effective undertaking administration practices (lean methodology, agile software program growth, and design considering), whereas fostering a holistic and cohesive goals-oriented work expertise.
“Up to 90% of all strategic enterprise initiatives fail and actually because they have been poorly carried out and executed on,” says Gloria Folaron, co-founder and CEO of Leantime. “And even when a technique is nicely deliberate, solely 7% of workers will have the ability to say they perceive the enterprise technique and what’s wanted of them to assist the corporate obtain it. That’s the place we enter the image, bridging the hole between strategic administration software program and undertaking administration instruments.”
Folaron, a former nurse-turned-product supervisor, acknowledged a necessity for a simplified undertaking administration resolution that didn’t overwhelm her ADHD. Utilizing behavioral human science and neuroscience, Leantime is constructed based mostly on motivational, goal-oriented capabilities versus task-based capabilities, which is how most conventional undertaking administration instruments are designed. With different platforms, customers are required to continually juggle a number of lists of actions and initiatives with out having an understanding of the larger image or feeling a vested curiosity in the work. Leantime takes a step again, permitting group members so as to add their methods, undertaking plans, concepts, targets, and supporting documentation earlier than going into the execution mode of making duties and milestones.
Leantime additionally acknowledges that productiveness is intricately linked to inclusivity. Supporting neurodivergent workers, just like the hundreds of thousands of people with ADHD/ADD or the one in 5 folks with dyslexia, and prioritizing cognitive accessibility is a vital a part of fostering an inclusive work tradition. Leantime’s platform creates a cohesive work expertise, encouraging intrinsic motivation quite than extrinsic motivation and selling undertaking possession throughout all members of a group. Based on how people perform, the platform is damaged into two modules, “Think” and “Make”, which incorporates quite a lot of options and instruments that mix technique with execution.
“Being a part of a group means nobody must be struggling and but, even in 2023, companies fail to prioritize instruments that work for everybody,” says Marcel Folaron, co-founder and CTO of Leantime. “We make it simpler for companies to be inclusive by making work administration accessible to the entire group.”
Leantime’s cloud-hosted platformis on the marketfor small and rising groups: Core $4/person (as much as three customers free), Core + Strategy $11/person, Core + Strategy + Program $19/person, and Everything + AI $25/person. The firm additionally gives personalized pricing and plans for cross-functional enterprise groups. In addition to its present suite of instruments, Leantime might be releasing quite a lot of new plugins for each cloud and open-source customers together with Strategy Management and Program + Strategy Management, with Whiteboard and AI out there as add-ons. Leantime is now centered on elevating extra capital to develop its integration growth and plugin infrastructure, set up key partnerships and enhance its gross sales funnel, and rent extra builders.
Joseph Andrew