Tools to manage projects
I have been using for a quite long time, a web based Project Management Tool. Some years ago, we started using kanban boards, and we choose to use Leankit, but this tool doesn´t fulfill all what we need.
After evaluating a lot of different tools (Asana, Wrike, Flow, Wunderlist, Active Collaboration, Proofhub, Genius Project), I finally selected Teamwork.
After some months using it, there I thinks that I like a lot:
- It is a easy to use tool (for the final user). This is important if you have a quite big team, and not all the people likes to use complex tools.
- You can have almost everything in the same tool (files, tasks, milestones).
- It can grow from 1 person teams to 100 people teams, with the same price level (the cost it is related to the number of projects, no to the number of users).
From my point of view, there is only one important feature missing: Helping to control how the projects are evolving, and when the project it is going to be finished. This is specially important on big projects. It´s true, you can create a gantt diagram, but gantt diagrams are it not very useful when you are developing software projects.
In this situation, to get valuable information, you need to export the data to Excel, and with some extra work, you can create things like a Burn Down Chart, that provides you a good estimate of the delivery date of the project.
After evaluating a lot of different tools (Asana, Wrike, Flow, Wunderlist, Active Collaboration, Proofhub, Genius Project), I finally selected Teamwork.
After some months using it, there I thinks that I like a lot:
- It is a easy to use tool (for the final user). This is important if you have a quite big team, and not all the people likes to use complex tools.
- You can have almost everything in the same tool (files, tasks, milestones).
- It can grow from 1 person teams to 100 people teams, with the same price level (the cost it is related to the number of projects, no to the number of users).
From my point of view, there is only one important feature missing: Helping to control how the projects are evolving, and when the project it is going to be finished. This is specially important on big projects. It´s true, you can create a gantt diagram, but gantt diagrams are it not very useful when you are developing software projects.
In this situation, to get valuable information, you need to export the data to Excel, and with some extra work, you can create things like a Burn Down Chart, that provides you a good estimate of the delivery date of the project.
posted by Miguel Angel at 9:07 AM
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