Marathon implementation times

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Lacking essential monitoring capabilities, Gamify's only recourse for tracking their implementation progress was a constant back-and-forth with their engineering team. This inefficient communication reduced clarity for everyone involved in a project, consequently stretching their implementation timelines to over six months.

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Processes lacking efficiency

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The team's processes bogged down by manually piecing together implementation tasks, and communication lapses that spanned weeks—led to significant delays and internal frustration. Derek reflected on the pre-Rocketlane days, saying,
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"Things were a lot slower and less organized than they are now.”

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Clients left in the dark

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Clients often found themselves in the dark due to poor communication, and a lack of a dedicated place they could go to for real-time status updates. The smaller team size further compounded these issues, resulting in periods where they received no contact for weeks, escalating their frustration and uncertainty.

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Difficulty in scaling operations

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Due to manual implementation tracking and heavy reliance on the engineering team for updates, communication became scattered across various channels like Slack, phone notes, and even written notes on desks. As the client base grew, it became evident that this approach was unsustainable, not only for team efficiency but also for the overall customer experience.

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Leadership's blind spot

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The C-suite deeply cared about customer feelings and project timelines, but the leadership team had limited visibility into the implementation process due to an over-reliance on rudimentary methods like spreadsheets. This lack of insight made strategic decision-making and resource allocation challenging.

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The team at Gamify sought to not only offer clients a clear view into the progress of their implementations but also enhance their own organizational efficiency. They aimed to streamline task management, keep all essential information in a single, accessible location, and ensure that as their operations scaled, the complexity of implementations wouldn't become overwhelming for anyone involved.

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"Between communication lapsing more than a few weeks, implementation timelines being more than a few months, that was basically the main detriment that we tried to solve when we looked for software"

Accelerated implementation timelines

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Rocketlane provided a platform for centralizing all project-related information, which helped streamline the process. Thanks to a combination of internal and communication changes, along with implementing Rocketlane, the team reduced implementation timelines from over six months to just 30 days.

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Empowering leadership

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With Rocketlane, Derek and his team now have all the crucial data readily available on one screen, a significant improvement over extracting data from Excel spreadsheets. These reports are super handy for keeping the C-suite proactively informed about project timelines and customer sentiments, clearly indicating what's on schedule, ahead, or lagging.

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Client engagement and satisfaction

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The team used to mainly update clients on implementation progress and outstanding tasks through emails and constant communication throughout the week. Introducing a customer dashboard was a game-changer, providing clients access to a portal where they could see exactly which tasks were pending and which had been completed.