My team has 8 people, we work remotely most of the time, we have to track our projects closely on daily basis.
Our team exists based on the university funding, so we cannot afford some high-end solutions like Asana or Omnifocus or Wrike.
We have some people who are NOT tech savvy AT ALL, which means we need to find a solution that is easy to use without a steep learning curve.
We don't need Gantt Chart, task dependency or timer. We just need a good tool to collaborate with each other.
Any recommendations?
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Give Quire a peek. It's is a great project management software. You can add individual task and also include sub-tasks. There's no limit to how many tasks you add. I really enjoy Quire's tree list view. You can drag and drop tasks around to different branches.
I used a lot of different online digital task management tools before. Adding just some several tasks every day and closing them off throughout the day gives me a great sense of accomplishment!
Enjoy your day!
Never saw this tool before, I love the tree view and how easy it is to modify the task list!
Thank you so much! Quire seems like the perfect fit for my team.
I love the tree view, I will definitely explore more about this tool.
One of my team member is a GTD diehard and she found this blog post on Quire about how to set up GTD method, we can't wait to explore more!
I second this.
My team has been using Asana for a while but then the pricing has been a problem for us, given the fact that there are not so many unique features in Asana that are actually worth the price.
We've made some researches and finally ended up with Quire.
Love it since then! The infinite task list is definitely adoring :) Highly recommend!
I'm a huge fan of ClickUp. It has a very generous free plan.
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Thank you for this awesome tool! <3 Definitely recommend it.
gonna give it a try
my team kinda need this kind of thing
I have been using this the past two weeks, along with a bunch of timing utilities. I figured that if I can accurately time how long it takes me to accomplish tasks, I will take my estimation game to the next level!
Except that's not how it went down. All those timer apps were pretty much a waste, they involved far too much manual effort and integrated poorly with project management systems. ClickUp has been great for managing my projects though, I might even see if I can contribute some integrations!
Use a physical Kanban board. All you need is sticky notes and a white board, doesn’t get any more friendly for those who are “NOT tech savvy AT ALL”
A physical board isn't really practical for remote work though
trello.com/ or just github projects. Currently we are using github projects, happy so far :)
Second that
Trello is the mix between simple & powerful...
Many people will look for more advanced tools for management when they actually need a simple board!
What do you mean by
project management software? Do you need a holistic solution where you have one application? Do you want some tools which help your planning like a (digital) kanban-board, a software to track time etc.?How does your collaboration look like?
I find it really hard, when you come up with a bunch of solutions and only tell, which ones you dislike (because of pricing), instead of telling us about your intended goals, your workflow etc.
Perhaps Google docs is already enough for your project. But without further knowledge, I can not say anything qualified.
Also, task management != project management.
Is the goal to manage work or actually do project management?
MS OneNote beats everything. Simple, intuitive and you can bring anything you want in from a screenshot to documents, share one or many notebooks. Links with MS Office, drag n drop. Syncs with mobile app. joecotellese.com/how-to-implement-...
Trello is perfect for me. Simple enough for small projects but also powerful enough to track larger projects too. The powerups they have for boards are great!
We are a small agency with the same issue. A lot of projects, a lot of clients that need access and just a small team. All these facts make most paid PM-Tools unaffordable. Tools like Trello are just a mess when you're managing 70+ projects as we are. I have 2 solutions:
Hope this helps!
Hi David I seen your post and was wondering if you would be interested in trialing Dozillo? It was built with agencies in mind. I'd love to get your feedback on it and how it compares to your past software experiences.
Have you tried Trello. It's pretty simple and has a free version. You can track tasks across boards which should help you see where things are at. you could create a board per project.
As a cheaper alternative to the products above you could try Dozillo it has more robust time tracking features than Trello and offers cheaper pricing than Asana and wrike etc.
I agree, Trello is easy to use and free. I work a lot of startups, and using Trello always seems to work well.
Love Trello. Used it for years. Matches big corporate Kanban methods with great add-ons.
We tried Trello but we need the task list view, which Trello doesn't have :(
Dozillo has a task list view within projects and has individual task lists from each team member. Dozillo also plans, schedules and tracks your tasks for you based on the time you allocate to them. This makes it easier to manage projects and avoid missing deadlines or going over budget. It's not free unfortunately but its base price includes 5 users
I gave up and started rolling my own last week because i wanted something with OKR focus that was open source.
I used to use Redmine, but it is a bit old fashioned.
Professionally i use Jira.