Actual Plan is a scalable project management tool that is perfect for a small development team or a large studio. My team used it for creating and assigning tasks across departments, from the art team to the web and game developers. We could import and assign tasks in-bulk to speed up production, and create groups of tasks and subtasks intuitively. The software supports different views to understand what progress has been made. You can switch between a task board, a nested list of tasks, timeline views, and views of each department organized by the people working on them. This is the tool to go to if you need to put together a detailed production report for your boss, and allows streamlining the time spent managing production trackers so that your team can focus instead on making a quality product.
Actual Plan was built to help teams I was working with get away from running their businesses in a Google Sheet. They knew they wanted something better, but they didn’t have the experience to know what “better” looked like. Linear and Jira were too expensive and too enterprise-focused.
I work with small and medium-sized education startups. Some have a lot of interns, and many have a lot going on beyond software, including grants, marketing, legal, and sales. They were managing it all in Notion, Google Sheets, and Google Docs. The price of a single seat on the other platforms was most of their monthly budget. Google Docs and Sheets are free.
Having spent decades working with Gantt charts and Kanban boards—and having always disliked what Scrum did to creativity and the passion for building—I knew I wanted an opinionated tool that works for both the builder and the organizer. I also wanted something that doesn’t cost so much that it encourages the payer to buy the minimum number of seats or share login credentials.
I knew we could do better, so I built Actual Plan alongside people who use it every day.
What stops a PM from signing their team up?
Is it free to start? - Yes
Can I track tasks? - Yes
Will we need to share an account login? - No
How can I get this approved? - $2 per user.
Your entire team for the same price as a single user on those "enterprise" platforms.
Coming soon - customer service projects. Why? Because thats how we power the CS pipeline for Actual Plan.
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