15Five

Avantages

The tool can be used by workers to alert team managment of dissatisfaction in a way that has a lower bar to action. In this i mean raising dissatisfaction can be difficult with team management often because it requires a push from workers to raise complaints. This software can provide an outlet that has a lower barrier to participation to alert dissatisfaction - this can get the process rolling to resolve these issues.

Anonymous feedback can be given if the software is configured for this. This can be useful to understand how a team feels.

Inconvénients

This software to me feels like a solution that is better resolved by a more human touch from team management and company HR.
This software helps to provide feedback from multiple levels of a team to ensure members of the team are satisfied. I shall focus on what i feel is the most important purpose of this software, helping resolve dissatisfaction in a team.
This should in my opinion be dealt with using a human touch and face to face help from management for employees and not through a semi automated tool. 15Five sends out surveys and feedback requests every week to employees to ask for their feedback on how work is going. This to me feels not like the best solution for organisations.

Avantages

I love the fact that you can give honest feedback without the face to face confrontations you would normally have if these types of questions were being asked directly by management or even your boss. This is a great tool for improving the communication and ironing out issues within the team and workplace. I found it really easy to use.

Inconvénients

I really enjoyed using this software, I don't think I have anything negative to say about it.

Avantages

The slack integration. High Fives given are posted to a Slack channel for the whole team to see.

Inconvénients

For me, it can put distance between team leads and team members. Instead of talking face to face, you are sending them a report on how you feel, and what you hope to achieve. I think it is a very inhuman touch to management, but I understand that it is useful for team leaders that tend to be very busy, and don't always have bandwidth to have these types of conversations during work time.

Avantages

I like that my managers can respond privately to my comments.

Inconvénients

I personally find the software very clunky. It's not user friendly, and I find it difficult to mark objectives as done. I've also had check ins moved to previous weeks (and I haven't found a way to delete them). I'm not a fan.