IT project management tools are familiar to many developers, as they are something we come into contact with every day. Project management is a complex process. A professional project management tool can effectively help the team improve the research and development efficiency, promote the good operation of the project, and ensure the orderly implementation of the project. But in the early selection of IT project management tools is often our most headache, so today I will bring you a few commonly used project management tools:

Microsoft Project

First of all, the most famous and most widely used Project management tools are Microsoft Project (for personal use) and its extension Project Server (for team use).

Software advantages:

  • Help users to prepare task schedule, manage various resources (manpower, equipment, etc.) and manage expenses; It can draw Gantt graph, all kinds of statistical graphics, and generate reports with pictures and texts.
  • The software is so easy to use that users don’t need special training to learn it themselves. Ease of use is a common advantage of Microsoft software products.
  • In China, the software is easily available to a large number of computer users (mostly pirated), which is the root cause of the largest number of users.

Microsoft Projects can manage projects in almost any industry, which is both a strength and a weakness: they’re too broad, they’re not targeted. For example, it is not enough to only use Microsoft Project to manage software projects, because Microsoft Project does not support the Project establishment and closure, change management, demand management, quality management, software configuration management and other important management work in software projects.

Asana

Asana is the project management software with the highest score on G2 websites abroad, which is very suitable for foreign users. However, domestic users usually encounter slow access speed and after-sales service problems (for example, someone on Zhihu said that a requirement has been waiting for three years), but it is still a good project management software.

Features/Problems solved:

  • Support kanban management, so that the work of the stage at a glance;
  • Gantt chart orderly project planning, timely reminder to avoid project delay;
  • Integrated email and other more than 100 office applications;
  • View team members’ tasks and priorities
  • Support establishing task dependencies;
  • Support the establishment of an individual work management area to separate individual and team projects;

Software advantages:

  • It has a very personal function design, such as setting up private projects to create a safe space for sensitive work;
  • Have a very detailed project/task log and can view a complete history of completed tasks and how they were completed;
  • In addition to providing software, we also provide professional management consulting (except in China)
  • Support for multiple languages

All of the project management tools mentioned above are software products of well-known international companies. Despite their excellent functions and brands, they are not suitable for Chinese IT enterprises. The main reasons are:

◆ Most of the domestic IT projects are small and medium-sized projects, if the use of the above project management tools, not only overqualified, and users will be very difficult to use.

◆ Most domestic IT enterprises cannot afford the above project management tools. Due to their high learning cost, even if someone gets pirated software without professional training and services, he cannot use IT well.

More suitable for domestic small and medium-sized start-up enterprises to use domestic project management tools

Tracup

It’s a platform that fits the geeky way of working. As well as being a Bug tracking platform, project management and collaboration platforms are very useful, not only for development teams, but also for production and operations teams. At present, it is also the most convenient project management tool used by our company.

Features/Problems solved:

  • Tracup’s Kanban can match almost any workflow and meet the management needs of a variety of projects.
  • Tracup is essentially visual, allowing you to see the entire project at a glance, making it easy to understand who is doing what and what still needs to be done.
  • It also has the necessary functions of project management, such as Gantt chart and task dependencies.
  • You can host your projects on Tracup as code repositories. When problematic changes and corrections are made in your project, your changes are synchronized to the bottom of the issue for easy viewing, recording, saving and re-checking. The project repository feature makes it easy to manage your projects more efficiently and coherently, making it easy for developers and users to manage each change effectively and traceable.

Software advantages:

  • The initial version is free forever, and the paid version has no limit on the number of members and projects, so you can add unlimited number of collaboration;
  • One of the core guiding principles is “making collaboration easier,” so the tools themselves need to be concise, clear, and straightforward. At present, it is also the most convenient project management tool used by our company.
  • The software is more suitable for freelancers, not only because of its low price, but also because it supports multiple mobile devices
  • To meet enterprise-level needs, Tracup supports enterprise background management, enterprise secondary domain name, enterprise statistics, enterprise resource and access control, strict control of enterprise rights, and enterprise role management. I like its simplicity and intuition, but also its professional power

Tracup is such a handy project management software. When you don’t know where to start with a complex project and all kinds of complex ideas can’t be quenched in a short time, Tracup makes it easy for anyone to get started, and solves all your pain points about the company’s multiple, chaotic and miscellaneous projects and project management process. Make the project work in order.

Suggestion: When choosing a project management tool, IT enterprises should consider the “price, function, and ease of use”, and try IT out before making a decision