How Project Management tools kill more companies than any other SaaS out there
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Re: How Project Management tools kill more companies than any other SaaS out there
#2Lack of focus, yeah.. now i'm reading at hackernews again, darnit!
Re: How Project Management tools kill more companies than any other SaaS out there
#3I don't get the headline, it's the only place SaaS is mentioned in the whole article.
Is there an assumption that all Project Management tools are SaaS?
To be honest the whole article seems a bit disjointed, it tries to be emotive and just fails to present a clear message.
Re: How Project Management tools kill more companies than any other SaaS out there
#4Sad but true. I've been part of startup teams who spent an embarrassing amount of time choose, customising or changing project management tools. None of it seemed to have mattered at all in retrospect. Now we start off with a whiteboard and post-its, and when people work remotely we use the simplest task tracker (like Asana) we can find. That solves the problem in the first 5 minutes of a new project, and leaves the team free to get things done.
Re: How Project Management tools kill more companies than any other SaaS out there
#5someone spoke my mind.
Re: How Project Management tools kill more companies than any other SaaS out there
#6Yes
And not only managers are at fault for this. I've seen my share of absurd amounts of wasted time because of "Clean Code" or "it's not OOP enough", etc
Developers are as good coming up with BS as managers
Re: How Project Management tools kill more companies than any other SaaS out there
#7It seems obvious that a start up doesn't need an enterprise project management tool. It needs something more appropriate, like Trello.
That said, whilst a start up can be built with rocks and paper, useful tools are ... useful, and having top notch tools can be a competitive advantage.
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#8This thing reads like some sort of marketing buzzword bingo and doesn't seem to say anything at the end.
PM tools are useful. They are all about communication and the 'bigger' picture. The issue I find is not so much with PM tools but when the 'truth' they are saying (e.g. the project won't be ready for 3 weeks due to resource constraints and the client has been told it will be next week) is not what the management want to hear. It's very easy to 'blame' the tool.
I particularly like http://www.ppmroadmap.com/ The focus of the tool is right.
For team 'management' I have used Trello, although I find Unfuddle (https://unfuddle.com/) or Asana (https://asana.com/) more suited.
Using Trello is all about working out that Trello isn't the perfect answer for software development and that there are more focused tools out there that help you get the job done :)
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#9This might be a little off-topic: The thing I miss in almost every Project Management Tool (SaaS or not) is the connection with the customer.
Say we are a company building software for a customer of us, we want the customer to put in the request and we would like to tell an estimate time that would be needed. This would also represent the cost of it. If he's allright with the costs, he can accept it. In that way you can communicate clearly to the customer how much he needs to pay, and we get to know what he wants. AND you have a bases to stand your contract on. No more hassling about endprice. Just print the sum of features and prices and you're done.
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#10You'd think this would be common sense. The fact that it's an article and it's getting traction here shows how many incompetent asses there are in the world who thrive on micromanaging.
That said, facing the world with a dearth of any organization and direction will leave you penniless in the long run. Small companies need lightweight tools to outline the promises they intend to fulfill for the business side in a given time period. If a few people are just going to have everything in their heads, things will go south.