Project management methodology was introduced from the West and has a long history in the West. Foreign project management tools often incorporate foreign culture’s understanding of project management, which sometimes deviates from China’s national conditions and practical application. In actual use, it may also cause bad user experience to the development team because of various technical, language and service problems.
When project management enters China, it is more used in engineering projects, software projects and other relatively standardized, process-based and precise management activities. However, in the Chinese enterprise management with complex system and different culture, project management does not develop rapidly. In our social environment, the organizational structure of enterprises, the relationship between market and government, and the characteristics of law and society are different from those of foreign countries. In such a complex environment, the standardization and precision of project management methods make it difficult to cope with various randomness, irregularities and ambiguities. In many cases, project management is rendered as a framework, making it difficult to proceed according to plan or specification.
In order to deal with this challenge, before looking for a project management tool, we should first clarify our purpose, what value we want the tool to bring to us. Value comes from needs, so what are our needs? Demand in simple terms, a software is hope can help us to conduct administrative work, project management is now divided into “project management”, “agile project management” this two ways, the two management way although there are differences in the management process, but the goal is consistent, is project for the implementation of the business value as much as possible. Which method is suitable for our project depends on the characteristics of the project and the level of the team.
At present, China’s project management tools are also developing vigorously. Compared with foreign project management tools, they have lower risk, lower cost and better user experience.
1. The zen way,www.zentao.net/)
Zen Dao is one of the most familiar domestic open source project management tools. It integrates product management, project management, quality management, document management, organization management and transaction management. It is a project management software with complete functions and perfectly covers the core process of project management. Founder Wang Chunsheng has worked for Alibaba, Yahoo China and Taobao. His growth was deeply influenced by New Century’s ideas and software, so he later started easuantianchuang Technology Company and created Chan Dao.
Zen Tao is in the form of open source project management software. Zen and Tao are two words with great representative significance in Chinese culture and the crystallization of Chinese traditional culture. Take “Zen Dao” as the name of the software, convey the understanding and thinking of management, through zen Dao to manage, can abandon red tape, abandon the malformation of official standard, restore the essence of things.
The price is free (open source); 200/ person/year (professional version) two kinds, supporting cloud, SaaS, Mac, Windows, Android, IOS deployment platforms, providing documents, online support training methods, as well as forum, email (working hours) customer support.
2. Huawei DevCloud (www.huaweicloud.com/devcloud/)
Huawei huawei cloud DevCloud set 30 years research and development practice, cutting-edge research concept, advanced development tools, development tools and services for developers, can let the development team based on the model according to the need to use cloud services, project management for anytime, anywhere in the cloud, managed code, code review, compile, build, test, deployment, distribution, etc., In this way, software development is easier and more efficient, enabling developers to focus on rapid innovation and respond to the never-ending demand changes, greatly improving the delivery ability and efficiency of individuals and teams, and helping software enterprises improve their competitiveness.
In terms of price, Huawei Cloud DevCloud also actively responds to the national call to provide support to small and medium-sized start-ups. For example, teams of less than 5 people can use it for free, provide 7×24 hours after-sales support, 1V1 key customer service, safe, reliable and fast data migration and professional pre-sales consulting services. So far, Huawei cloud has not only broken technological barriers for enterprises, but also helped developers share technological dividends in the rapid iterative technology wave.
At present, Huawei Cloud DevCloud provides 11 services including project management, CloudIDE, code hosting, and code checking. CloudIDE, as a cloud development environment for software developers, supports online code writing, intelligent prompts, code submission, code snippet search and other functions; Code hosting, as an important tool, provides online code hosting services based on Git for software developers to ensure code security; Code inspection, to help developers timely check out the wrong code, and provide repair suggestions, which can not only effectively control the code quality, but also reduce the cost of solution; Cloud testing is a one-stop testing solution for software developers, covering test management, interface testing, multi-dimensional product quality assessment, ensuring developers to efficiently manage testing activities, and ensuring high-quality product delivery. Products from the perspective of developers and enterprises, to provide targeted solutions, with user-friendly services to help manage the whole process of software development.
One-stop research and development services can help developers generate more excellent ideas by reducing costs and improving efficiency. At the same time, it will also inject new vitality into traditional enterprises and quickly realize digital transformation with the best entry point and direction of action.
3. Leangoo (www.leangoo.com)
Leangoo is a Kanban-based agile project collaboration tool. Its design incorporates advanced Agile management ideas, supported by several industry renowned agile management consultants, and crafted by a professional agile development team, which perfectly supports Scrum agile development and Kanban methods.
We can use Leangoo to visually manage and collaborate on project requirements, tasks, issues, and documentation, tracking team progress anytime, anywhere.
Its core is kanban, through kanban sharing and real-time synchronization of team work to achieve efficient collaboration, team work is reflected in cards, the content can be requirements, tasks, problems, etc. There is also a permanent free personal (without any restrictions) online enterprise version and a private deployment version.
The advantages of Ringo include: perfect support for Scrum agile development, extreme flexibility, on-demand change, plug-in, API interface. We use Leangoo to manage product roadmap, requirements management, Agile iterative task management, defect management, test management, release management and more, including all one-stop support for Agile development. Various application templates can be selected according to your own needs. Moreover, the function of statistical team efficiency, product quality and progress (project status, demand trend, defect trend, throughput, burnout chart, task distribution, task cycle, team speed, overall project progress, etc.) can meet the different needs of different stages of the team. Third party integration, support enterprise wechat integration, link and drive CI/CD platform to achieve continuous delivery, etc. At the same time, it provides rich API interfaces to support personalized development based on Leangoo, so as to create more suitable research and development collaboration tools.
4. Teambition (www.teambition.com)
Teambition is a subsidiary of Shanghai Huiyi Information Technology Co., LTD. It enables teams to easily share and discuss tasks, files, sharing, schedules, etc. in their work, making team collaboration more possible. Teambition creates a great experience on the web, desktop and mobile, so you can work with your team anytime, anywhere. Teambition’s iPhone app was named App of the Year 2015 by Apple. Teambition has more than one million users working in teams, including leading companies in many industries.
The price includes the free version, 249/ person/year (enterprise version), and 499/ person/year (professional version). It supports cloud, Windows, Web, Android, and IOS deployment platforms, provides documentation as training, and provides customer support by phone and email.