15Five vs Weekdone

• Organizes agendas for 1:1 meetings. Prior to 15Five, I kept a running list of notes, but I love that 15Five gives you the ability to add talking points to the 1:1 agenda and employees are able to do so as well. As we meet we can mark these off the list as we discuss them.
• Reminders and email notifications. We have it set up so that a 15Five should be completed weekly. The system automatically sends email reminders as the due date approaches.
• Ability to track company and team objectives/goals. When adding objectives into the system, you can assign them to a parent objective (company goal) to ensure you are on the right track with your goal setting and that it aligns with the business goals.

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• It connects daily work to personal, team, department and organizational long-term goals.
• Provides leadership with visibility into the output of individuals, teams, and departments.
• Improves employee engagement with a modern approach to 360-degree staff/manager feedback, complete with emoji.
• Connects status reporting with existing systems of record (Basecamp, Asana, Trello, Teamwork, etc) to avoid redundant data entry.
• Brings the OKR discipline to an organization who needs a structure for their prioritization planning.
• The mobile app makes entry effortless. I could give weekly feedback to direct reports as I was walking between meetings on my phone.

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• While it is possible to generate custom reports based on historical data, the interface is not very robust. For instance, you cannot filter your reports based on, say, departments.

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• User setup and management and team/department creation is not a trivial effort. Requires some deliberate planning.
• The deadlines for plans don't connect to the due dates for tasks in systems of record. That can get confusing when Asana says a task is due next week but Weekdone still has a due date of tomorrow.
• I'd love to see more contextual support for sections like employee feedback. Maybe a sentence or two suggesting feedback based on the report's weekly entry. If a person had three Problems and only one Progress, Weekdone could suggest some corrective action to make it easier for the management to mitigate problems before they get ugly.

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• It is extremely difficult to gauge ROI for a tool like 15Five, but as a company, we've found a lot of value in it for byte-sized, weekly performance management.

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• Catching employee dissatisfaction before it grows and spreads.
• Saved time from having to manually summarize accomplishments from project management systems.
• Provided context into work planned vs work completed and added context to common blockers.
• Provide visibility into progress over time (week / quarter / annual goals) and trendlines for individuals/teams/departments/organization.
• The only negative is, some people grumble at adding yet another system to their workday.

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