Project Management

What about some project management love built by a current treehouse student?? Yours truly!

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Basically, I created it with this tagline in mind - Get your coworkers to do anything for you (without looking like a complete jerk).

Would not have been possible without the wonderful content from treehouse, thanks Ryan Carson for putting together such a great team and portal :)

I use Asana for personal tasks because of the powerful recurring capability and Trello for company-wide todos as it's visual and easy to parse. I don't think we pay for either (!)

I've used Trello, Pivotal, and Basecamp and found them all useful in different contexts.

Trello and Basecamp are both great, but I find myself preferring Trello. It seems easier to hand different parts off to different people and get a good overview of projects/priorities. I could see Pivotal Tracker being extremely powerful for a agile development team with a dedicated project manager, but there are a lot of features that would go unused for day-to-day todo management.

Give a shot to podio.com, trully amazing.

The real trick with picking a to-do list tool is to understand how you think about your to-do list, what they call your "mental model" of it. (The polarity of opinion you find on these tools stems from this fact: if a tool thinks about your to-do list the same way you think about it, there's a good chance you'll love it.) I formed my to-do list mental model in college with a pencil-and-paper planner that displayed one week at a time in a spread. I now use TeuxDeux for my personal tasks because it uses that same model, and I love it.

Pivotal Tracker is amazing for managing software projects. I love that, also. I actually wish I could use an agile methodology for my personal to-do list so that I could use Pivotal Tracker for it!

I have mixed feelings about Trello. It works really well for us at Treehouse, but I've tried to use it on a few other projects without the same level of success.

I use trello for business and personal life.

Used Basecamp for about five years. Couldn't live without it!

I've tried a few things on your list, most notably Basecamp. I use Podio for work (it's very customisable) and a Chrome app called To-Doist for my personal tasks.

I converted the company (all 2 dozen of us) over to using asana at a previous job, I'm pretty big fan of it.

I think I like it even more than my beloved note taking app Workflowy.

Basecamp all day long and twice on Sunday

In my corporate life we used some tools like TeamPlay and some monolith from HP, both of which were gross. At Treehouse I became a big fan of Trello and use it in my personal life as well. Though lately I've been souring on Trello for performance reasons. It seems it became too popular too fast or something!

My mobile projects at Treehouse have been small enough that I've managed them myself mostly by writing things down as TODO items in comments. I think Trello could work really well for larger projects, though, as having cards for requirement, use cases, stories, etc. could be very useful in that framework. I love the visual aspect and passing of cards in Trello.

That said, I'd like to see Asana for that, too. Pasan Premaratne is a big fan of Asana, and I really like it.

As everyone mentioned, we use [Trello](trello.com) at Treehouse and it works great for us. Personally, I prefer using https://workflowy.com/. I just prefer simple tools.

Hey guys, I have been struggling to find a good all-round (or duo-combo) app for my project management and accounts. I have only just started freelancing and I am extremely excited. I only met my first client last week! I have the Treehouse Team to thank, which I will as soon as I have sent off a quote and made it 100% official ;) I am looking for an app which will help me keep track of tasks/projects as well as expenses and invoicing. I was giving thrive.solo a go but it seems way too clunky and I found myself spending hours adding and re-adding entries as they would not register. At the moment I am giving Basecamp and Freshbooks a trial but if any of you know of a better all-round solution, please do let me know if it exists!