plunger

Unblock your team and let the productivity flow

‍Do you often hear something like this from your team: “I don’t know when I will be able to finish [some important task] because I’m waiting on [somebody] to get [something else] done”?

• Are you finding it difficult to keep track of what is blocking progress?
• Are you constantly let down by lack of delivery and efficiency on projects because somebody on your team is often waiting on something else to be completed?
• Are your team members always forgetting to unblock each other and have to constantly be reminded about this?

‍So they can get things done and deliver value to your business, so you can then deliver actual value to your customers?
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Wouldn’t it better if everybody didn’t have to constantly chase each other, just to remind each other to get that one thing done that’s stopping them from:

• shipping a product feature
• producing a report
• making a hiring decision
• signing an invoice
• approving a design or business document
• approving a marketing plan

‍What if:

• everybody on your team could immediately know what the blockers are and prioritize their tasks
• everybody could know if they are blocking other team members
• people didn’t have to constantly remind each other on outstanding tasks
• teams could get automatically notified when a blocking task has been resolved
• everybody stopped chasing or blaming each other for being blocked because there is a clear central view of blockers
• your team was happier because everybody has a clear view of things and more productive

This shouldn’t really be that difficult to do right? You could just create a spreadsheet and share that across your organization. It's free and everybody can jump onboard right away. But there is a cost to free. The problems are going to start to surface when multiple people start working on many things. Spreadsheets are generic and don’t really have any built in validation for what you want, mistakes can happen, and at some point the number of rows for those blockers is going to grow. Then there is the problem of everybody and every team seeing each other’s data. Sure, you could create a separate page or spreadsheet. Good luck trying to maintain that. But the biggest problem is going to be get everybody to remember to check in and update the spreadsheet.

Plunger is the answer to your team’s blockers. Unblock your team and let the productivity flow by:
1. Getting an immediate view of who is blocked
2. Stop having to chase each other and avoid awkward conversations to get unblocked
3. Avoid blaming each other as you can now see how long something has actually been outstanding
4. Increased productivity