{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"What Works","title":"EP 235: What’s Working To Scale With Software With Scale Spark Founder Susan Boles","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2871,"description":"\n\n\n\n\nThe Nitty-Gritty:\n\n\n\n* How ScaleSpark founder Susan Boles uses software to solve capacity problems for her clients and help them scale up* Why she starts with a software audit before making any changes—and how you can too* What she looks for when considering what software options to go with* The first step to getting started with new software (it’s not what you’d expect!)\n\n\n\n\n\nWhen I first got serious about building a team and documenting our business systems…\n\n\n\n…I signed up for Asana.\n\n\n\nIf you’re not familiar, Asana is a project management system that tons of people were raving about at the time. They claimed how organized it made them. they said how wonderful it was to have a checklist of everything that needed done in front of them. They loved being able to assign deadlines and delegate tasks.\n\n\n\nThat all sounded marvelous.\n\n\n\nBut my experience of Asana was… not so great.\n\n\n\nNo matter how hard I tried to “be good”—check off all the boxes, stick to my deadlines, and process my tasks, I’d end up falling behind and ignoring the whole system.\n\n\n\nMy team could use Asana. But I couldn’t.\n\n\n\nAnd I felt like a bad business owner. I felt like I wasn’t good enough, that I wasn’t disciplined enough, like I just couldn’t hack it.\n\n\n\nDramatic? Maybe but it seemed like Asana was what worked for everyone I respected and I just couldn’t seem to get on board.\n\n\n\nLate last year, Marie Poulin—who you just heard from in Episode 234—shared that she’d switched her project management (and practically everything else) over to an app called Notion.\n\n\n\nIt turned out that Notion (why yes, that’s our referral link) allowed for way more than checking things off a list and organizing tasks by project. It was purposefully non-linear, adaptable, and infinitely customizable.\n\n\n\nI was intrigued.\n\n\n\nWe took a look… and we were hooked.\n\n\n\nNow, it’s no surprise that my team can use Notion. They’re a bunch of a project management badasses. But the fact that I can use it? Well, that was a...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/AmfGeDL96-fhMaeOcqmX7TK_eWrvTLco6OJj2QpZtZI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NGUx/OWY5ZDg1M2E5MmU3/ZjEwOWVmNDM3MWVh/ZjZlOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}