u/Daisy_InAJar

Especially if you deliver software deployments to external stakeholders, I’d love to hear from you.

How do you create value on your projects? What are the top 3 things you bring to your engagements that you feel have the largest impact?

Bonus if you feel like sharing:
- are you present for all requirements gathering, prior to “build” starting? If not, how do you ensure there’s no scope creep during requirements?
- how do your teams relay actions and/or decisions to you for calls you are not on?
- if there was something you wish your org would change that’d make managing your projects more successful, what would it be?

Thanks in advance - I’m always appreciative of this group sharing their (armchair) perspective (shoutout MoreLaw, our unofficial PMO advise extraordinaire)

I'm considering puchasing a Plaud device and wanted to if anyone uses it in a similar way and would be willing to share their experience.

I'm a project manager in a consulting environment and spend most of my day in client meetings via Zoom or Teams (some days 8+ hours of back to back calls).

What I'm looking for is something that can essentially act as my personal "memory" throughout the workday.

Ideally it would listen to meetings through my speakers, identify action items and commitments I've made, and help me keep track of follow-ups across multiple clients and projects.

The challenge is that I'm often involved in 6–10+ different projects at the same time, so I'd love if it could somehow distinguish between clients/meetings and let me search things later like:

• What did I commit to for Client A?
• What action items came out of today's steering committee?
• What do I owe teams follow ups on?

I have and use the Zoom meeting summaries but haven't found them super helpful - the detail is there, but they come to my inbox silo'd by each meeting and it'd take a ton of time to go through each of them, the summaries and action items themselves are not easily copied into the project tools we use - it's just not efficient for me.

I really need to find a process that keeps track of everything I promised people all day and feeds it into a dynamic to-do life or document that I can work from.

For anyone using Plaud:

• Does it work well for this type of workflow?
• Is the app/search experience actually useful, or does everything end up as a pile of recordings?
• How good is it at identifying action items and commitments?
• How can it identify speakers if it's not 'on' the meeting with me to see everyone in attendance?

Appreciate any feedback before I spend the money!