Producteev Updates Their Applications To Help People Get Work Done
You may have noticed that I'm really excited about the plethora of new team project management solutions that are popping up such as Do, Strides, Asana, Wunderkit, Podio, Trello and many others. The reason I like them is that they enable colleagues to do more than just share status updates and links and instead help teams actually focus on getting work done. Today Producteev announced updates to all their clients, integration with TaskRabbit, printable task lists and more.
Producteev uses the term workspaces as the top level way of organizing a project. Each workspace has members and contains tasks. Tasks have all the expected features such as prioritization, due dates, assignments, etc. Tasks can have sub-tasks, but they are just simple checklists and don't have all the features that main tasks have. Producteev provides a nice activity stream that displays all the events taking place in the workspace and allows conversations to take place around each event.
Producteev is available on the web, via clients for Windows or Mac, and as applications on iOS and Android devices. Pricing is per workspace, not per user. Workspaces for only 1 or 2 people are free, while paid workspaces start at $20/month and discounts apply as the number of workspaces increases.
My POV
What do you think? Are you using a team-based project management tool to help you and your colleagues get work done?
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Producteev uses the term workspaces as the top level way of organizing a project. Each workspace has members and contains tasks. Tasks have all the expected features such as prioritization, due dates, assignments, etc. Tasks can have sub-tasks, but they are just simple checklists and don't have all the features that main tasks have. Producteev provides a nice activity stream that displays all the events taking place in the workspace and allows conversations to take place around each event.
Producteev is available on the web, via clients for Windows or Mac, and as applications on iOS and Android devices. Pricing is per workspace, not per user. Workspaces for only 1 or 2 people are free, while paid workspaces start at $20/month and discounts apply as the number of workspaces increases.
My POV
- While the "pay for what you use" pricing model sounds attractive, I think business buyers may prefer a single time charge and not have to worry about how many projects they are setting up. Of course per user pricing can get confusing when you mix both internal employees and external people like customers or partners. To solve this some SaaS vendors are charging per employee but allowing unlimited external users.
- Differentiation in this space is going to be difficult, as most vendors are offering similar features and user experiences.
- Producteev's integration with TaskRabbit sounds interesting, but I'd like to hear stories about how customers are actually using it before I'm convinced this will be useful, especially in business use-cases.
- I know one of the fundamental design points for these tools is simplicity, but I believe that integration with business systems such as CRM, ECM, HR, etc. is going to be critical in making them truly useful. After all, if you're going to manage a project don't you want to link back to the resources (people, pages, files, customer records, inventory, etc.) involved in the project?
What do you think? Are you using a team-based project management tool to help you and your colleagues get work done?
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