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My hunch suggests that there will be soon a Project Management tool that has growth trajectory similar to "Slack" or who knows it might be "Slack" itself.
Second thought was, "why don't you pay your staff to enter time from my invoices?"
Third thought was "I'll have to bill you a stupid hourly rate to enter my time in your system."
Right now I'm stuck at the third thought and they've agreed, but I haven't started doing it yet and don't want to. Their systems are their systems and mine are mine.
We actually ran into the exact same problem while juggling multiple projects and ended up creating Taco - https://tacoapp.com . Taco aggregates your Basecamp, Trello, Asana and 35+ other services into a single screen so you can prioritize your day across multiple services. Works especially well with a new tab Chrome extension. Haven't found the best way to consolidate applications for real time services. Although, I'…
Don't treat your customers' project management systems as your own organization tools. Instead, treat them as deliverables and manage your own organization elsewhere.
Good point. I do use Trello for all my internal stuff, then checklists inside my cards for each project. But then I find I forget to update my checklists in my Clients' project management tools :( I guess that's just a personal problem I need to figure out though. EDIT 2: Updated the wrong comment.
It's not elegant but it means that I can use the tools that are the most relevant and ignore everything else in the meantime.
We actually ran into the exact same problem while juggling multiple projects and ended up creating Taco - https://tacoapp.com . Taco aggregates your Basecamp, Trello, Asana and 35+ other services into a single screen so you can prioritize your day across multiple services. Works especially well with a new tab Chrome extension. Haven't found the best way to consolidate applications for real time services. Although, I'…
We actually ran into the exact same problem while juggling multiple projects and ended up creating Taco - https://tacoapp.com . Taco aggregates your Basecamp, Trello, Asana and 35+ other services into a single screen so you can prioritize your day across multiple services. Works especially well with a new tab Chrome extension. Haven't found the best way to consolidate applications for real time services. Although, I'…
Put a slack bot interface in front of this and I will love you forever.
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I've found the same applies to corporate organization tools. I manage my tasks separately with "update JIRA" being one of those tasks.
I hope you at least leave notes about what you do. Few things are more infuriating than seeing a complex task assigned to someone, and the next entry is "Solved." and the ticket closed. Great that the problem was solved, but the corporate organization tool exists to make solution information more available to others with the same problem. In a way, ticket systems are another type of documentation, along with man page…
+customer data folder ++customer name > links to trello,slack go here +++project name > links to trello etc. go here
then I have a todo.md or todo.txt using imdone-atom with snippits, gives you a text based kanban, you can open project folders with atom --add c:\customers\abc\project1 and alt-t for tasks
also alt-j is journal where you can try to kanban all customers if you're ocd
documentation should not go in a ticket system, it should go in a wiki
my fav is a combo of integrated apps like trello/slack, jira/confluence, github/gitter
tasks are todo/doing/done and done includes closing their ticket system and updating their wiki or whatever they're using like a wiki
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I hope you at least leave notes about what you do. Few things are more infuriating than seeing a complex task assigned to someone, and the next entry is "Solved." and the ticket closed. Great that the problem was solved, but the corporate organization tool exists to make solution information more available to others with the same problem. In a way, ticket systems are another type of documentation, along with man page…
Well he does, in his own systems. Not in yours. Is my guess.