I believe that all of you have been exposed to project management tools more or less in your work. Project management software is an important tool for a development team. One of its main missions is to help you manage various complicated tasks and bugs in daily development work, otherwise you will be submerged in the sea of tasks and bugs and cannot extricate yourself. It is also an important collaboration platform for the development team. With this platform, team members can easily understand what everyone has done, what they are doing, and what they will do. Project management tools can help us easily quantify work content, provide teams with efficient collaboration methods, visualize project progress, etc., and improve our work efficiency and focus on goals.
As the saying goes, "If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools." In a project development process, if a relatively complete project management tool is used, it will surely achieve twice the result with half the effort. Therefore, choosing project management software has become a problem that a development team must face. Here, we would like to share with you some experience when the development team chooses project management software.
Microsoft Project
First of all, the most famous project management tool with the largest number of users is Microsoft Project (for personal use) and its extended version Project Server (for team use).
Software advantages:
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Help users prepare task schedules, manage various resources (manpower, equipment, etc.), and manage expenses; can draw Gantt diagrams, various statistical graphics, and generate graphical reports.
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The software is so easy to use that users can learn it by themselves without special training. Ease of use is a common advantage of Microsoft software products.
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In China, the majority of computer users can easily get this software (most of them are pirated versions), which is also the root cause of the largest number of users.
Microsoft Project can manage projects in almost any industry, which is both an advantage and a disadvantage: if it is too widely applicable, it will lack pertinence. For example, it is not enough to use Microsoft Project to manage software projects, because Microsoft Project does not support important management tasks such as project establishment and completion, change management, requirements management, quality management, and software configuration management in software projects.
Asana
Asana is the No. 1 project management software on the foreign G2 website. It is very suitable for foreign users, but domestic use usually encounters slow access speed and after-sales service problems (for example, someone on Zhihu said that a demand has been waiting for three years), but It is still a good project management software;
Features/Problems Solved:
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Support Kanban management, so that the stage of the work content is clear at a glance;
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Gantt chart for orderly project planning, timely reminders to avoid project delays;
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Integrate more than 100 office applications such as e-mail;
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View team members' tasks and priorities
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Support for establishing task dependencies;
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Support the establishment of a personal work management area to distinguish individual and team projects;
Software advantages:
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It has a very user-friendly functional design, such as setting up private projects to create a safe space for sensitive work;
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Have a very detailed project/task log, with the ability to view the full history of completed tasks and how they were completed;
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While providing software, it also provides professional management consulting (except domestic)
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Support multiple languages
The project management tools mentioned above are software products of well-known international companies. Although their functions and brands are quite excellent, they are not suitable for Chinese IT companies. The main reason is:
◆Most domestic IT projects are small and medium-sized projects. If the above-mentioned project management tools are used, it will not only be overkill, but also difficult for users to use.
◆Most domestic IT companies cannot afford the above-mentioned project management tools. Because of their high learning costs, even if someone gets pirated software, he cannot use it well without professional training and services.
A domestic project management tool that is more suitable for domestic small and medium-sized start-up enterprises
Tracup
This is a platform that fits the geek way of working. At the same time, as a bug tracking, project management and work collaboration platform, it can be said to be very easy to use~ not only suitable for development teams, but also product and operation teams. At present, it is also the most convenient project management tool used by our company.
Features/Problems Solved:
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Tracup's Kanban can match almost any workflow and meet the management needs of various projects.
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Tracup is visual in nature, providing an at-a-glance view of the entire project, making it easy to understand who is doing what and what still needs to be done.
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It also has the necessary functions for project management, such as Gantt charts, task dependencies, etc.;
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You can host your code repository on Tracup. When there are problematic changes and corrections in your project, your change information will be synchronized to the bottom of the problem for easy viewing, recording, saving and re-checking. The project warehouse function can easily manage your projects more efficiently and orderly, so that developers and users can effectively and track every change.
Software advantages:
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The start-up version is free forever, and the paid version has unlimited members and projects, so you can add unlimited number of collaborators;
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One of the core guiding ideologies is "to make collaboration easier", so the tool itself must be concise, clear, and clear. At present, it is also the most convenient project management tool used by our company.
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The software is more suitable for freelancers, not only because of the low price, but also because it supports a variety of mobile devices
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Meet enterprise-level needs, support enterprise background management, enterprise second-level domain names, enterprise statistics, enterprise resources and access control, strictly control enterprise permissions, manage enterprise roles, like Tracup's simplicity and intuitiveness, and love its professional power even more
In addition to the above three software, there are also some foreign software similar to Jria, which are generally good in practicality, but the price is too expensive for small and medium-sized companies to afford. In some process design and bug handling, it does not meet the actual project needs. Therefore, it is most appropriate to use localization to develop a project management platform that suits you. Our team uses Tracup, and the overall feeling is not bad, with basic functions. It is more in line with domestic usage habits, and there is mainly a free version, you can try it.