Questions tagged [tools]
This tag is for questions about the USAGE or IMPLEMENTATION of materials or practices used by project managers to support their work-flow. As a superset tag, the "tools" tag should not be used when there's another, more-specific tag available. This tag should not be used for software recommendations, which are off-topic on this site per the Help Center guidelines.
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What are the current tools available for PM? [closed]
What are the current up to date project management tools to use? I have been using dotProject which I know is outdated, what ones are out there and the best for small to medium projects?
To be more ...
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What is better: a physical Scrum board or an online board?
I used to practice Scrum with a physical board. We often faced problems when working with distributed teams or just when going into a meeting room. So I decided to implement a SaaS service to provide ...
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How effective will be an iPad to take Meeting Minutes?
Usually I record notes of project meetings in pen and paper (regular notepad). If I am taking notes in a laptop, some people tend to think that I am not paying attention.
I have thought of buying an ...
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Should small teams use Continuous Integration?
I recently switched to a start-up organization providing a social network site. In my new organization, we are a small team of 8 developers/designers.
I heard a lot about continuous integration (e.g. ...
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Can MS Projects be integrated in SharePoint?
I wonder if it's possible to integrate a template from MS Projects into SharePoint.
We have been using this tool to plan and illustrate workpackages. However, since we have moved into a bigger team ...
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Which tool do you use for creating good looking project timelines? [closed]
Which tool(s) do you use for creating good project timelines? I don't mean Gantt charts, but timelines that summarize the milestones so the team / others can have an overview of the plan ahead.
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Open Source Agile Project tracker?
I have a small project I want to carry out.
I need an open source Project Tracker which could integrate with Subversion and has a Scrum oriented UI.
I'm trying to raise this as a client server on a ...
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Are GTD techniques applicable to PM?
Is Getting Things Done helpful in terms of understanding PM, and does it make any direct contributions?
I'm not asking whether GTD will make you better organized, or more effective generally. I mean,...
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Which tools would you recommend for use when drafting, monitoring and reporting on a project schedule? [closed]
When managing a complex project (large enough for significant daily status updates), with a large team (in the 10's of team members), which tools would you recommend for use to draft the project ...
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Choosing a tool for Scrum [closed]
I'm considering the use of a software in order to help our team to implement Scrum. I saw iceScrum, but I don't know if it's a good tool. Do you ever used it? Can you suggest another tool?
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Scrum+Kanban SaaS tool [closed]
Do you want to use such tool?
It will be some tool with product backlog, sprint backlogs, Scrum/Kanban dashboard...
Me and my partners want to develop this.
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Tools in agile methods
We are currently in the process of implementing Scrum. I would like to let us started with a tool to help the team get along with it (see here about this point), but after a presentation I made where ...
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How to choose project management applications? [closed]
How to choose project management applications? Is it the license, is it ergonomics, wealth of features, .etc?
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