organizations and teams always try and do better and sometimes implementing tools and resources is
one of those great ways to nudge progress forward whether that's bringing you all together in one
huddle space or mapping out a goal that you have for the future today we're going to dive
into some project management applications that I think you'll find beneficial if you are in a
team of around five or more but we're going to give you the best recommendation for amp from
our own experience so before we begin my name is Francesco welcome to keep productive I'm super
excited to have you and we're eager to dive into all of these project management softwares so do
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finder experience which will help you get into more depth with all of the applications we've
mentioned here in today's feature so project management applications are difficult to choose
one of the best bit of advice I have is to not only consolidate information from you and your
experience of using project management if you're picking them but bring together Knowledge from
your team in terms of how they've experienced project management applications so trying to
tailor around best fits of your team versus necessarily what you want to choose but let's
dive into I think we have 16 that we're going to recommend in today's video so the First on our
list is a very traditional one it's owned by atlassian which is a very large company which
produces high quality software and Trello is one of those good quality reliable softwares and it's
one of those softwares from my experience that a lot of teams tend to get on with the fastest
because of the kanban layout and its experience now since Trello launched back in the early 2010s
it naturally has evolved and there are new views to accommodate bigger teams now it's great I would
say for between teams that are size about five to a hundred I think it's is really optimized
for that and it comes at a fairly medium price in the market compared to some of the higher end
product check management tools number two is Asana now Asana again a really robust
long-standing productivity tool on the market it was created by the Facebook co-founder and it has
been really one of the best and most reliable productivity tools for projects and for teams
for the last couple of years and Asana presents a really comfortable experience for managing your
projects your tasks and all other items around it and what it does do really well is not just
design but it does Integrations and workflows very well helping you to bring together other apps and
other parts of experience that are important so if you want to connect something that you think
is externally valuable for you and your team Asana likely has an integration for that and
if not they do have a zapier integration which does have plenty of different other options
at ways to connect those applications up Asana again is fairly medium priced maybe a little
bit more expensive than Trello and naturally that changes but it does present a really good quality
experience if you and your team want some more comforting Solutions versus a two flexible option
which some of them might not like number three is active collab now this is quite popular with
marketing agencies and departments and primarily it looks like many of the others you can manage
your projects reports and items but you could also bring together finances invoices and use
some of the effective features like commenting much like Asana and Trello both have too but
it's really a hot hit with marketing departments and the experience whilst doesn't necessarily have
the best design out of all of them it definitely presents a pretty reliable outstanding solution in
the market when it comes to marketing departments so number four is Walling now this application
and was sort of like a personal productivity applications but it sort of evolved into the
project management space over the last couple of years and it's really much more for the creatives
out there we've got a few tools for creators those who are working in very maybe design maybe
um code but those departments that require a little bit of creativity involved in it this one's
really good for that warling presents a really clean experience a little bit like notion in a
way but a little bit like Pinterest too helping you to bring Collective ideas together and still
use some of the project management abilities that you'd expect maybe not all of them but definitely
some of the ones that I think teams benefit from in a more creative sort of layer and it does have
a much smaller pricing when you compare it to the likes of Asana in Trello because it's still
fairly early days in this project management Journey number five is Task Aid now task Aid
again is great for small to medium-sized teams one thing I really like about skate is you can
flip your view from something very basic like a list all the way over to a mind map and you
can be able to express that information in a wide variety of ways and it has that layer of
asynchronous and remote communication with video calls directly within the conversation and live
chat as well which makes it great for small teams to pop open a video call whilst having the data
in front of you there and it's quite like a little small window into your work which is
really interesting now task Aid comes in again a medium to low pricing and presents A Fairly
reliable experience but one that is more it's more has more flexible and options but maybe not the
flexibility that we see in Asana click up Monday and those sort of larger applications number six
is Reich rank's been on the market for some time and again a really reliable and robust experience
much more tailored towards sales and marketing teams it seems to be a fan favorite with them but
a good alternative to applications like active colab with a maybe not so amazing interface
but a seemingly reliable set of tools within it number seven is notion now notion has evolved a
lot in the last couple of years and if you don't know what notion is it's basically like a no code
project management tool but it can be adapted to a lot of experiences say you want to use it for
your recipe list you can use it for that say you want to use it for meeting notes it can be used
for that and many different permutations so notion can be adapted to a lot of different situations
and that's what a lot of companies like about it it does have a lot of different ways that you can
present information and one of the things that teams do like about it is the ability to lock
views and also create applications for their team so it does come into a lot of flexible nature so
if your team wants to build something from scratch this is helpful but you can also pay consultants
and templates to really go deeper with that experience the one thing I'd say about notion is
sometimes it can be too overwhelming for a lot of people learning this sort of thing can take time
and if you and your department want to do that that's a good investment of your time especially
when you can build what you want for your team but I haven't come across a company yet above 200 that
have used it I don't know whether that's something that's important but just something to know when
it comes to scalability number eight is monday.com now we all know Monday it's come up on probably
YouTube ads millions of times but it is a good and reliable way to manage your client projects and
also the projects in general I would say it does have a flexible nature to it maybe not as flexible
as something like click up but presents a really outstanding set of tools that you can map to you
and your team and what's cool is it's got a sort of Plug and Play nature where you can adapt each
of the areas to what best suits you so if you want a dashboard board you can bring that up if you
want to map you can bring it up etc etc it's got a lot of functionality to it and structure that
a lot of people like in a project management tool now it does have some great templates as well so
if you have that scarcity of being too flexible with the project manager then this is a good
solution to that and it comes at a medium to high pricing compared to some of the other Solutions at
its level so number nine is catalog now this is a fairly new Solution on the market but I think
it's going to be one of the ones that is going to be quite popular in the future now it seems like
catalog are doing something quite interesting with artificial intelligence helping you to
build structures that best suit the way that you and your team work which is a really interesting
step forward in the productivity space and it seems like they seem to really be investing in
the artificial intelligence space which is a good start but catalog presents a way for you to sort
of create micro applications inside of your project management experience that suit your
needs but also create create an environment that is really tailored around your work and this is a
really interesting step forward in the market now it's hard to compare what this is sort of
like but I would say it's a blend between what you were getting a traditional project management tool
like Trello or Asana and something that's more flexible like notion and coder however catalog
is in its very much its early days number 10 is Basecamp now this is developed by the team who
created hate hate email if you watch this Channel and also many other great projects but Basecamp
is one of the most difference on our list today it is really designed for remote and asynchronous
scenarios helping teams to communicate not necessarily in real time it's got some great
features around events tasks managing your own workload and also projects timeline and dates
in the future and in particular I love the design and I think the ethos around asynchronous work and
the focus towards that is something that will suit you if you're trying to aim towards that
market and something I think will be popular in the next couple of years now base camp is
priced fairly high but it does have a plan where it is flexible to however many people so it can
be high if you've got small amount of people but really low if you've got more people in your team
number 11 is Coda and very much like notion coder presents a way that you can build your project
management experience for Coda I think goes a step further by introducing improved formula and more
recently improved open AI features too and coda in general presents a more comfortable solution for I
would say teams that are larger than 150 because what they've had is they've had a lot of sort of
market experience for example lots of companies Uber Google and many more use coder within it and
obviously take advantage of some of the abilities in there there's a lot sort of higher amount of
people that have large companies who are using Coda versus notion in the experience that I've
seen number 12 is click up and again click up presents a monday.com like experience but offering
more flexibility click up offers a great way to customize your view whilst keeping the traditional
structure of a project management application and what I like about click up is the way that you can
customize it and take it that step further and you can set up automations workflows and small
things that will save you a large amount of time over the years and a lot of people like it because
it's got a personal and a work view as well much like monday.com has but something that a lot of
people do like in Click app so next up is teamwork now teamwork is a pretty reliable experience it
doesn't look outstanding like many of the others in this list but it comes into a great comparison
between active collab Reich and this application I think those are the sort of three good reliables
appearance with more traditional structures that doesn't have amazing designs but it's definitely
a really good solution for that number 14 is Mila notes now I mentioned Walling earlier and that
was more of a creative solution for teamset a more creativity based and Miele note is a
great option for that you can move stuff around the board it's a very free roaming but you can
collaborate on stuff in real time with each other and a lot of people like that nature of being able
to build and plug and play with their experience so migler notes is really nice when it comes to
being able to use a more free-form layout of a productivity application next up is smart
suite and this again is a much more traditional structured project management software like much
like activeco lab it does present a pretty decent set of tools and a more flexible set
of tools that can be used and in a reliable way so again not necessarily a design Award winner
but something that's going to give you and your team's structure and I've seen larger teams use
it you know much larger teams compared to likes of notion and Coda collectively number 16 is airtable
now airtable much like code and notion is a more flexible option but provides more workflows and
more automations in a general sense you can create real custom workflows and go much deeper with the
API inside of airtable with suits itself for those teams that want a notion and code or level ability
of creating a tool but want to go further with the Integrations and collaborations with other
applications and finally smartsheet this one I've seen being sponsoring F1 teams and I had to check
it out a couple of months ago but it definitely is one of those ones that is more of traditional
much like the ones we've been talking about like rank but you can change your information and what
it tends to do is do well at the dashboardizing your team's workload and also upcoming dates in
timeline view and things like that it's really a nice look for that and presents a good opportunity
if you're looking for a much more date orientated project management experience so folks that was
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