What Freeware Do You Use to Manage Projects?
If you’ve ever managed a complex project, you know that the key to success is communication. When a team is connected through frequent communication—and the powerful collaboration it enables—all of its members are in sync with progress, updates, and impediments. However, in today’s fast-paced business world, it is increasingly common for team members, especially in software development, to be geographically distributed. Building software is an inherently chaotic undertaking. Without a collocated team, keeping that chaos in check can be nearly impossible.
One way to help distributed teams remain connected and navigate the chaos of development is through agile project management software. An agile tooling solution can help team members compensate for distance by creating a virtual team room, where status and impediments updates are broadcast to the entire team in real time. An agile tooling solution can offer the additional benefit of reinforcing agile values and existing practices.
My team practices Scrum and uses a free agile tool called ScrumWorks Basic, which is published by Danube Technologies. Apart from the obvious value of it being offered as freeware, my team appreciates how well it supports the Scrum values and processes we live each day at the office. Although the tool does not contain the same functionality found in the commercial version, ScrumWorks Pro, it has all the basic functionality to begin managing projects with Scrum.
If you’d like to learn more about its features or download your own free, 20-year license, head here: http://www.danube.com/scrumworks/basic
Okay, readers, here’s where you come in. Do you use free software to manage your projects? If you do, let me know tool you use and what you think.