This paper presents an experiment comparing the number of user operations and effectiveness of digital workflow in different cases. The main goal of this study is to systematically compare the effectiveness of Trello collaborative project management software in Windows 2D operating system and on the MaxWhere 3D VR platform. All comparisons are made based on a novel framework that focuses on both quantitative and qualitative assessments of user interactions required for the completion of digital projects within different computational environments. The results of the experiment, evaluated in terms of the proposed framework, point to the conclusion that when using Trello in conjunction with MaxWhere’s 3D VR spaces, users are able to accomplish the same digital workflows with 72% less elementary user operations, and with 80% less time spent on overview-related tasks. In the 3D experiment, the value of the Monitoring Density metric introduced in this paper increased almost 300-fold, from 125 to 3125. Based on these results, the paper concludes that the MaxWhere 3D VR platform offers project managers a number of ways to accomplish tasks that would otherwise require extremely complicated digital workflows in more traditional 2D environments.