In this post you will know the top project management software tools which are used to maintain your project. The best project management solutions for agile projects should have the following capabilities.
1. Tracking progress - capability to visualize progress so it’s easy to see which team members belong to what project or associate urgent tasks to teams. It’s also easy to spot bottlenecks visually. Don’t just rely on Gantt charts for milestones, the software should be flexible to accommodate kanban and other visualization charts.
Solutions with good visualization:
Wrike - visual timelines help you to track performance and clearly see dependencies between tasks
Asana - subtasks, task dependencies and columnar project structures let you connect the dots easily and track project progress
Clarizen - track and upgrade milestones and avoid duplicate activities
Podio - real-time data visualization can surface trends on your project progress
2. Monitoring issues - capability to spot urgent tasks and associate causality relationships among tasks. Gantt charts are good at causality tracking by laying down tasks in order of accomplishment. But it isn’t enough. You should be able to arrange causality in various ways, for instance, available resources, by location, group vs. individual tasks, etc. There should also be clear historical referencing so you can backtrack on a given task pipeline and identify what’s causing the delay.
Solutions with good issue tracking:
Zoho Projects - log issues and keep a close tab on them until they’re resolved
JIRA - connect issues to commits via GitHub
Smartsheet - visual pipeline to track tasks and bottlenecks
Asana - custom tracking fields lets you zero in on specific indicators
3. Collaboration - capability to connect teams, streamline communications and share files in real time. Among others, look for tools like chat, email syncing, activity stream, @mentions and tagging for communication; for sharing, check range of file format compatibility, storage capacity and centralized processes. Access is also key here, so prefer cloud-hosted solutions with mobile apps.
Solutions with good collaboration space:
Wrike - has end-to-end collaboration tools
Bitrix24 - has 34+ collaboration tools
Clarizen - social collaboration
Asana - allows collaboration with third-party guests
Trello - team grouping allows members to work closely together
KanbanFlow - real-time collaboration from any device
You should also check these features for more agility:
Estimates - so you can manage budget, keep to your targets and anticipate overruns
Project portfolio management - so you can shift from one project to another and easily monitor their expenses, bottlenecks, other issues and accomplishments
Resource management - so you can juggle shared resources, budget and talents when running multiple projects all at once
1. Tracking progress - capability to visualize progress so it’s easy to see which team members belong to what project or associate urgent tasks to teams. It’s also easy to spot bottlenecks visually. Don’t just rely on Gantt charts for milestones, the software should be flexible to accommodate kanban and other visualization charts.
Solutions with good visualization:
Wrike - visual timelines help you to track performance and clearly see dependencies between tasks
Asana - subtasks, task dependencies and columnar project structures let you connect the dots easily and track project progress
Clarizen - track and upgrade milestones and avoid duplicate activities
Podio - real-time data visualization can surface trends on your project progress
2. Monitoring issues - capability to spot urgent tasks and associate causality relationships among tasks. Gantt charts are good at causality tracking by laying down tasks in order of accomplishment. But it isn’t enough. You should be able to arrange causality in various ways, for instance, available resources, by location, group vs. individual tasks, etc. There should also be clear historical referencing so you can backtrack on a given task pipeline and identify what’s causing the delay.
Solutions with good issue tracking:
Zoho Projects - log issues and keep a close tab on them until they’re resolved
JIRA - connect issues to commits via GitHub
Smartsheet - visual pipeline to track tasks and bottlenecks
Asana - custom tracking fields lets you zero in on specific indicators
3. Collaboration - capability to connect teams, streamline communications and share files in real time. Among others, look for tools like chat, email syncing, activity stream, @mentions and tagging for communication; for sharing, check range of file format compatibility, storage capacity and centralized processes. Access is also key here, so prefer cloud-hosted solutions with mobile apps.
Solutions with good collaboration space:
Wrike - has end-to-end collaboration tools
Bitrix24 - has 34+ collaboration tools
Clarizen - social collaboration
Asana - allows collaboration with third-party guests
Trello - team grouping allows members to work closely together
KanbanFlow - real-time collaboration from any device
You should also check these features for more agility:
Estimates - so you can manage budget, keep to your targets and anticipate overruns
Project portfolio management - so you can shift from one project to another and easily monitor their expenses, bottlenecks, other issues and accomplishments
Resource management - so you can juggle shared resources, budget and talents when running multiple projects all at once
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