{"id":285,"date":"2019-10-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/niftypm.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/3-more-spooky-project-monsters-2c87c612751d\/"},"modified":"2021-06-17T14:19:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T18:19:24","slug":"3-more-spooky-project-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/niftypm.com\/blog\/3-more-spooky-project-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"3 More Spooky Project\u00a0Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"4317\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--figure\">Dreary trees bend as inanimate towers over the dank autumn fields of business. The summer\u2019s heat breaks and primes the cool, dwelling chill of the impending holiday freeze. Workforce hordes, \u201cfresh\u201d from their summer vacationing, re-enter the daily slog and transform\u200a\u2014\u200aperhaps unwittingly\u200a\u2014\u200ainto beasts of business brainrot.<\/p>\n<p id=\"f8cd\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Be weary that your team, or perhaps even <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">you yourself<\/em>, are not one of them.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"d94d\" class=\"graf graf--h3 graf-after--p\">The Workflow\u00a0Zombie<\/h3>\n<p id=\"4bba\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--h3\">Trudging aimlessly through their workday is the Workflow Zombie. Their once vibrant brains, formerly teeming with creativity and thoughtfulness, spilled out many moons ago, leaving an unanimated, demotivated husk to amble in its place. With no clear reason behind their daily objectives, and no context as to how their actions benefit the organization as a whole, these poor creatures stumble through their daily tasks without the spark of life.<\/p>\n<p id=\"4e63\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">One might say they\u2019ve lost sight of <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/niftypm.com\/milestones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/niftypm.com\/milestones\">milestones<\/a>, and instead, traded them for headstones.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"4954\" class=\"graf graf--h3 graf-after--p\">The Red Tape\u00a0Mummy<\/h3>\n<p id=\"8006\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--h3\">Wrapped in its sanguine shawl of bureaucracy, the Red Tape Mummy haunts project timelines and hinders progress by way of unclear processes and pending approvals. That creaking sound you hear? Its your project screeching to a halt, and its the same sound as the sarcophagus door swinging open. The Red Tape mummy has no need for organs of its own, as it enjoys training the life out of a project\u2019s pace.<\/p>\n<p id=\"8d62\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Beware of being snared in this beast\u2019s wraps, for untangling your project from its trappings may drain your will to live.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"f09c\" class=\"graf graf--h3 graf-after--p\">The Wherewolf<\/h3>\n<p id=\"b585\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--h3\">Night has fallen and the moon stretches wide over the darkened sky. Finally, your workday is finished.<\/p>\n<p id=\"6100\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">Or so you thought.<\/p>\n<p id=\"2fc2\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">This is the hour of the Wherewolf. Ambivalent to work hours (weekends be <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">damned!<\/em>) and overjoyed by your multiple-tools solution, the Wherewolf hounds you with questions that should have transparent answers.<\/p>\n<p id=\"bd34\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\"><em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Where<\/em> do we stand in our project?<\/p>\n<p id=\"c21d\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\"><em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Where<\/em> can I find our latest file version?<\/p>\n<p id=\"cb15\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\"><em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Where<\/em> was that email detailing client approval?<\/p>\n<p id=\"7a81\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p\">The Wherewolf\u2019s fangs tear through you in your private hours via email or your devoted chat tool. And who\u2019s to blame? This creature relishes the opportunity to exploit your broken workflow, and instead makes <em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">you<\/em> its victim.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"0286\" class=\"graf graf--h3 graf-after--p\">The Light of Workflow\u00a0Hope<\/h3>\n<p id=\"9f17\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--h3\">Your team needn\u2019t be lost in the dark wood of workflow obscurity, as Nifty\u2019s shining light of team hope can guide you through these witching hours. By animating your team\u2019s daily tasks through context-driven milestones, enforcing and automating process across projects, and creating a <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/niftypm.com\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/niftypm.com\/overview\">single source of project<\/a> and content consolidation, Nifty will help you and your team live to see the morning light.<\/p>\n<p id=\"7a88\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--p graf--trailing\">Give <a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/niftypm.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/niftypm.com\">Nifty<\/a> a free try today! \ud83c\udf89<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dreary trees bend as inanimate towers over the dank autumn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-project-management"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/niftypm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/niftypm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/niftypm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niftypm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niftypm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/niftypm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niftypm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/niftypm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niftypm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niftypm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}