Other than Asana and Trello, what do people use to plan / track projects?

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We have a number of large projects that require multiple parties to be involved. What do people use to best manage and track projects involving external members of the team 👌

Jessi Lu · Accepted Answer

Check out Zenkit. It´s a flexible online project management tool that offers many different data views like for example mind-map, spreadsheet, list, calendar and kanban board. These can be switched between anytime. Also Zenkit offers great collaboration features.

Disclaimer: I work for Zenkit

GenieBelt 🏗 · Answer

GenieBelt probably would be the easiest option to track construction, engineering, architecture projects. Basically - it's an advanced Gantt chart software, with developed communication, overviews, documents modules. Compared to other platforms, GenieBelt is extremely easy to use - you can just start right away, without specific construction management knowledge. And of course, GenieBelt is very convenient on mobile (iOS & Android) and is cloud-based. GenieBelt works well both for small & medium-sized businesses & large enterprises.

Gregory Lefort · Answer

Best way to share tasks and sync with your team. 
For teams who are looking to manage their projects faster and easier.

Chiadi Onyike · Answer

Excellent for managing my team and projects, also does the messaging and file sharing very well... The new time management tools have made it even better!

Kate Makovskaya · Answer

Great tool to see the panoramic view of large and complex projects. It is easy as Trello, but with a complex of additional features that can meet needs of any Agile and Scrum team.

James Welch · Answer

I was a trello user for 2+ years, but now prefer kanbanflow - I would say because it feels less bloated and is really suited to my current scenario of 3 users.

Ramon · Answer

Beautiful UI, Reliable, comprehensive features and powerful automation. Editor's choice by Pcmag

Stefan Theofilos · Answer

People that I know who use Airtable have said nothing but great things about it.

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Bitrix24 is great. It's free, like Trello and Asana, but has client management, Gantt, quotes and invoices that none of the free PM solutions offer. You can create 'extranet' workgroups for external use access. Collaboration via email is supported as well. See https://www.bitrix24.com/features/tasks.php

Ihor Vorotnov · Answer

At first, it looks too complex if you're not familiar with SCRUM, Agile etc. But it's totally worth the effort to familiarize yourself with Jira. Highly configurable and easy to use in the end.

tampajohn · Answer

I was introduced to Roadmap the other month and to be honest, I'm really impressed with how well it's coming along.  It takes the approach of leveraging user/stakeholder feedback to generate ideas and user stories, but in the end it works very well (and integrates with github right out of the box).

Brittany Fuller · Answer

Thanks for the feedback, John! We built Roadmap, but we also use Roadmap to plan weekly releases since we launched (here on PH last October). I love how Roadmap keeps us focused on development people care about and how it helps us create beta groups and do more effective product research.

Engagements from our public roadmap keep us motivated and help us communicate with customers. You can check it out here --> https://roadmap.space/public-roadmap/

Katya Sklyarova · Answer

TMetric is an easy and user-friendly app that helps you to be more productive and stop wasting your time. TMetric can be integrated with Asana, Redmine, Jira and other project management apps.

Shawn Johnston · Answer

With integrated time tracking, task management and critical path gantt views on all projects with multiple few modes and several powerful filtering options, this is the most control you have her head over our current project load. Then throw in their new smart scheduling and team scheduling sections and suddenly you have complete insight into your teams and capacity and work. It's been a game changer for our agency

Vasil Enchev · Answer

Best one. Very well designed and quite simple yet powerful.

Ken Cucchia · Answer

Integrates seamlessly with Microsoft / Outlook

Leo Zakour · Answer

Project management tool powerful for product teams yet simple and beautiful.

Peggy Chang · Answer

1. Infinite task list view. You could add as many levels of subtasks as you need to break down ideas for a big project.
2. Kanban board. To help you visualize and streamline your project workflow.

Sam Clarvit · Answer

It has all of the Kanban features you want, but is immensely powerful for more than just agile development. I learn something new in this tool everyday and I have been using it for years!

Vicky Pham · Answer

THe best project management software that I've every used XD

Dhruv Agrawal · Answer

It's a wonderful tool for small-medium size startups. It's simple and interactive.

Carsten Jaksch · Answer

MeisterTask is enough for my small business, I can use it for private tasks and projects too, it has some nice advantages over Trello like automatic task actions, task relations and integrated time tracking. And it comes from Germany.

Ps.: MeisterTask works well with MindMeister.

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I used Basecamp when I worked on a team of 5. It was remarkably easy, intuitive, and had ways for us to schedule tasks related to projects and assign them to each other. Also a small chat feature built in that we used as a whiteboard of sorts.

Halsey Huth · Answer

Awesome tool that you can apply to many types of projects. Integrates well with Zapier connections making it pretty powerful.

Abhilash Jain · Answer

I personally use this more than Trello. It just works and its super easy to use and manage. Another good thing I like about this is that it is super flexible, you can jot down multiple ideas on a section. 
Anyone looking at your plan gets the flexibility to either get a jist of what it is at the same time also allows flexibility to deep dive into sections which I feel is  super powerful.

Shantanu Raghav · Answer

This is great tool to plan and  create roadmaps,  gives you visual representations like ghant charts. You can create categories for your user stories, set priorities and integrate with other tools like JIRA

Shiv Sharma · Answer

Taskworld is one of the fastest growing task/project management apps in the market. It combines visual boards, team messaging and project analytics into one easy app. It started out as Task Management System (TMS) in 2006 and after years of fine tuning, opened for subscription in 2016. In just under a year, it's being used by thousands of companies worldwide including market leaders like Accor, AT&T, Accenture, E&Y, Capgemini, Amazon, Hugo Boss and Kodak.

Mark B. · Answer

Free option. Great UI/UX. Robust API. Still my favorite.

sam · Answer

Project management with Google apps. Add tasks, files, members. Gnatt chart to track progress. Its free.