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Been looking for straightforward project management software for our growing team.
Tried MS Teams, but run into a few issues. - the project/bucket doesn’t have an owner, the tasks in it do. I want to be able to filter by manager to show the projects they are overall responsible for managing.
If you filter the tasks it still shows all the projects/buckets.
That said I quite like some of the features over using excel
Any suggestions for alternatives?
Cheers!
I've used Asana but it was the paid version so can't comment on the free one. You can make simple projects fairly easily. We also started to use Basecamp but then I moved jobs so never got used to it fully.
Tried MS Teams..
I'm guessing that you mean Planner which is what you can integrate into Teams. It's a nice half way house between full MS Project and Excel but it does miss some features. You might be able to cheat by including the name of the manager into the name of the bucket but you are trying to manage people who are managing the buckets and that might be just a bit beyond what it was designed for
Used Basecamp, really liked it. Setup a free account and give it a try. Does cost to use properly with internal team members and customers. Think the free limit is a out 5 people. But great for assigning tasks and getting a good view of progress.
Much better than emailing over project plans and double checking with customers on their progress for their tasks.
I was using Tasks in Teams, without any other app. I thought about bodging with a name in the bucket, but don’t think that will do the job satisfactorily.
Trello perhaps or ClickUp?
Browser based and there is integration with Teams if you still want to use Teams. Unsure of how good the integration is.
My boss swears by Padlet. I find it to be a pain in the arse, but she loves it.
I use Things 3. I think it's great, but it's Apple only and has a high initial expense.
Trello worked for me before I got Things.
If you are running old school waterfall style simple projects try out TomsPlanner.
If running Kanban / Agile style try Asana.
Also worth trying out Notion for a next gen mix of the two combined with SharePoint.
Again another one for Trello or Clickup here we’ve used both and in a multi million pound company we use clickup now to log time against for projects
Cheers I’ll check them out!