What is a must-have feature for a system which helps you run your project issues?
Piotr Pawłowski
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What functionality would help you be more efficient, productive and save time? What can help manage your daily issues/challenges?
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David Miller@davidmiller4312
As a project manager leading cross-functional teams, project visualization is a must-have feature for me. It helps me track the progress of all my projects at one glance. Also, team collaboration features such as instant messaging and task comments enable a smooth-flowing project from start to finish. I am currently using ProProfs Project to manage my project issues. The tool has worked well for me.
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I believe an internal knowledge base is a great feature offered by tools such as Proprofs Help Desk (https://www.proprofsdesk.com/) that allow you to offer self-service capabilities to employees. Staff members from multiple departments (such as marketing, customer service, sales, accounting, logistics, etc.) can find answers in the form of FAQs, help articles, guides, and resolve issues on their own.
Firmbee
1. watch list
2. mail status update
3. custom task status flow.
Side Project OS
A system for setting goals broken down my year/quarter/month/week/day. Seems a bit excessive at first but it works like a charm for me! Keeps me accountable and on top of my big projects.
I use Notion to house this system
Firmbee
For me, clearly indicated deadlines are a must-have!
Also, it's good to have your work somehow visualized and categorized in a user friendly way. Fx. categorized by daily, weeky, monthly goals? Or maybe by statuses and progress?
I tend to forget about meetings, so reminders would also be a good option.
Firmbee
@zaneta_siwik That's true. Reminders are definitely a key feature.
I think that the most important thing is navigation.
Navigating the site, intuitive tabs - it all makes things much easier.
Besides, another thing - a quick possibility to take a look at previous and current projects.
Thanks to such solutions work becomes faster and better.
priority - easy team members connection, so everyone knows what to do
Definitely a clear division of tasks, something like a kanban. Tagging and recalling deadlines would also be great.
Firmbee
@formenteralady14 Multiple configurable task boards + sprint planning ! Must have. And how do you deal with monitoring and billing of working time?
@alex_roman_fbee It would be nice if each task had a changeable status based on which the working time would be logged.
Side Project OS
@formenteralady14 Kanban for the win!
Reminders are my must have. I would appreciate categorizing and sorting tasks by colours from most important to those that let's say can wait.
@agnieszka_szczepaniak sadly, colours don't work for everyone. And still someone has to create these categorization rules.
Firmbee
@kofeina @agnieszka_szczepaniak true! Everyone perceives colors differently. A possibility to create your own color-coded priorities would be great.
tool to prioritise, categorise and manage tasks
Definitely a task management tool!!!!
I used to be immersed in a series of tasks and didn't know what to start first, what should come after. Then I processed all of it at the same time, no priorities, and guess what...everything was unfinished!
Now is better, we use a task management tool to categorize tasks, set a deadline and finish it. Totally work for me!
@themaxrussell totally agreed! I was drowning in my things to-do. Now, when I can organize my tasks it's much better. I can focus on my work properly.
For me kanban board is something I can't imagine working without! Plus it's great to see how many things you've already done. ;-)
A calendar with reminders is also crucial - it helps me keep track of everything and not forget anything. It would be nice if you could mark priorities so you don't get lost in the workload.
Side Project OS
@joanna_radecka Love a kanban board!
Automation of queries or checks for reporting.
My must-have is a to-do list. For me, as a graphic designer, it is an essential tool because of the amount of work and tasks that I have. Thanks to a to-do list nothing get lost and I can have everything is under control.
I think a basic one would be being able to assign tasks to people in a team. Also, a functionality to get reminders for each task's deadlines.
An advanced feature would be being able to generate reports to track the weekly/monthly progress of each person on the team.
Why is it limited to man-aged people. What if someone isn't one of them, and run into issues? Anyhoo... When it comes to the functionality that I would like to see, is possibility to include my clients easily, without need to create account by them. It's just less struggle which that equals better experience for people I care about.
Reminders are crucial! Without them I'd be lost in my workload - since I'm combining this with list of tasks, my managing skills are on top!
Usersnap
in my opinion, definitely a mechanism to collect your bugs, feedback, and requests throughout the product development life cycle. this is the lifeblood to making better products over time for the people who use and need them most: your customer base.