How to Unite Teams on a Shared Project Management Platform

Executive summary

Fragmented tools and disconnected workflows don’t just slow teams down—they limit your organization’s potential. As an IT leader, you’re uniquely positioned to resolve cross-departmental collaboration and alignment challenges by centralizing your teams on common project management solution. The payoff? Streamlined operations, greater organizational outcomes, reduced costs, simplified tech stack, and the ability to scale with confidence.

This guide is your step-by-step playbook for driving organization-wide adoption of a shared project management solution — such as Jira. It offers practical strategies to engage stakeholders, identify and address inefficiencies, tailor solutions to meet the needs of every team, and manage the roll out in a way that builds trust, momentum, and tangible results. Whether you’re tackling misaligned workflows, visibility gaps, or tool sprawl, you’ll gain a proven framework to lead your teams into a more connected, scalable future.