Top 10 Project Management Softwares
According to research, there are 100 million startups around the world and 65% of the startups fail due to lack of proper project management
Project management is a craft of organizing tasks technically and creatively. It itself is a challenging work, but the level of challenges gets upgraded when it gets connected with the word “Startup”. According to, Capterra survey report, most of the workers of U.S. likely around 59% of them expressed their difficulties in team and project management. It is important to have better planning of work to have progressive workflow and healthy communication between co-workers.
Orchestration of a startup is not a child's game. It needs a huge contribution and dedication to make it successful and worthy. But, most of the blooming startups failed only because of mismanagement of work. So, today’s article is going to solve this problem certainly by proposing 10 best sold and used project management software.
Before digging into top 10 softwares, we need to have a clear idea why we need project management software and how our burden will be lessened by including this in our daily work life.
- Efficient time tracking system for easily getting updated.
- Convenient communication process.
- Enough storage place for documents which is also easy to share and retrieval
If you are a new fish in large software sea, it would not only difficult but also time wasting if you choose the wrong one. To make it easier, top 10 used and reviewed software are listed below:
Wrike, launched in 2007 by a public beta, found by a company in San Jose, California. Wrike is widely used for its convenient and attractive features of project management and team collaboration. It provides project control panel, notifications and time to update of different deadlines and design, priorities and collaborate different projects in versatile teams.
Highlight:
- Trouble free and straightforward task bar
- Auto update of current task and add group discussion
- Updated news feed and sorted combination of documents
Convenience of a product is judged based on the affordability and particularly in this matter Wike is on the top list. It’s just $10 per month for each user. If you are a part of an aspiring team, Wrike is a cut-price on your way of success.
Whenever you plan to something, you start with a paper and a pen to make list. As making list is an intrinsic step for any planning, to make it more affluent Asana has brought additional features. Daily to-dos can be made easily, creatively, and can be tracked by anyone easily with Asana. Additionally, Asana has unexpectedly easy interface to surf as it has all options in one place which saves time and help to finish the work efficiently.
Highlights:
- My task list and Focus mode
- Task and follower’s tracker
- Easy notification and reminders
- Add attachments and assignments to the task
It’s an affordable management solution for any rising company as it provides services in three different pricing: Free, Premium ($9.99 per month for each member) and Enterprise (Customized).
Have you ever thought of having a dashboard which is as interactive as humans? Easy and auto customized dashboard with revised workflow? Then you are a step away to get these amazing features and the magic software is called Trello with easy downloading and using steps. Specialty of Trello is easy add and drop task card on board and notification alert by email and software itself of deadlines. It can be used by unlimited members and can handle unlimited task lists.
Highlights:
- Easily manageable Kanban boards which contains numerous task bars, to-do lists and boards.
- User can easily mark their work as completed with the help of check box.
- Each task on board contains area for checklist, description, comments and file attachments.
Trello is an affordable place to start the work with as it’s free. It has two other subscription packages: $9.99 each user per month (Business plan) and $20.83 each user per month (Enterprise plan).
Nifty steadily is making stronger position day by day in the competitive business market with its special and affordable features. It has a unique feature of managing team communication and project portfolio at the same time. Though Nifty is still working on developing Native Gantt Charts and Task Priority settings, it’s still a very affordable software for small teams and business.
Highlights:
- Kanban boards are divided into three different categories based on the work progress: New task, in progress, Completed.
- Visual presentations of deadline and work portfolio
- Manageable and controllable notification system for each member
- More than one member can be added to the taskbar and discussion bar can be also added anytime.
It’s free for solo and small teams (3 members). The standard plan starts from $8 per month with 5GB space and unlimited members and guests can be through using this plan and For Enterprise, it’s customizable so must contact with Nifty management for upgrade.
Monday.com is a distinctive software with specialized features of task-focused tool and auto reminder of the progress percentage of numerous tasks. Most of the users love to use Monday as it’s creative, stimulating and goal oriented.
Highlights:
- Organized and updated task card boards
- A troop of premade patterns and models of different featured cards and boards
- Easily connectable with Drive, Dropbox and similar management tools.
Monday.com has free trial for better understanding. After free trial, anyone can purse the premium with $25 per month which user has to pay annually.
If you feel more productive and well informed about work by seeing visual road map, Aha! will be the suitable choice and comfort zone for you. Additionally, it has unique feature of tracking business objectives, strategies by analyzing the project management. It also has separate feature for marketing department such as marketing skills presentations, visuals of marketing strategies. Both sides have features of time management, communication and customize workflow platform.
Highlights:
- Designed modules to analyze the strategies and tactics.
- Organizing work based on prioritizing
- Sketches, wireframes and visuals can be added for better understanding
- Features for comment stream, analyses and tracking working progress.
Aha! is free for one-month trial. It has two affordable plans for users: Premium $59 and Enterprise $99.
Podio has won a position of one of the best and affordable project management software with its cloud-based management portal. Also, Podio is now being used by more than 500,000 teams of small business, organizations and tools. Not only Podio popular in small business market for its affordability but also giant companies like Volvo and Sony also consistent members of Podio.
Highlights:
- Easily monitoring personal dashboard metrics
- Based on accessibility it has two distinct platforms to work, Personal and Public dashboards.
- Updated stream of progress level
- Option for having audio or video conference call
- Interactive comment space
Podio has 4 different memberships:
- Free (Upton 5 members with basic features)
- Basic ($7.20 per user per month with unlimited access to storage and external users
- Plus ($11.20 per user per month for light user roles)
- Premium ($19.20 per user per month with the advance workflow and ability of large file uploading)
Smartsheet has distinctive smart features for helping small businesses and startups to be more efficient in project management. It has features of work, manage, capture and report on evaluation. Most importantly, Smartsheet provides spreadsheet which helps to gather data directly from internet.
Highlights:
- Accountability
- Easily traceable workflow
- Efficient on roadmap and empowering users with well-informed information
It offers two different package system:
Individuals: $14 per month
Business: $25 per month per user
Teamwork, name itself is a perfect representation what it works for. Teamwork is the ideal software for new formed groups as it provides features for team collaboration. Additionally, user has advantages of time tracking, group billing, analyzing goals and strategies and easy notification systems.
Highlights:
- Create numerous tasks and easily divides into required sub-tasks
- Digital timer for better tracking and time logging
- Based on performance it adds estimation of future progress
- Importing data from Excel
Teamwork comes with different membership packages:
- Free – Costs nothing – offers up to 5 users, 100MB of file space, and 2 active projects
- Pro – Costs $9/user/month – offers up to 50 users, 100GB file space, and 300 active projects. Adds Integrations with Slack, Google Drive, OneDrive, and more.
- Premium – Costs $15/user/month – Offers up to 100 users, 250 GB file space, and 600 projects. Adds custom domains, project portfolio, extra integrations, and more features.
- Proofhub
Proofhub is an excellent virtual workplace which connects people from around the world to find work professionally with teams. Proofhub has created its own place in the market by giving users the opportunity to interface in 6 different languages (English, Fresh, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Polish). It has efficient Kanban boards for distributing and tracking the time. Moreover, managers can distribute the work based on tasks availability and efficiency of the workers.
Highlights:
- Digital timer to track the spending hours and progress of work
- Features for assigning custom roles to workers
- Tasks can be moved easily based on the work cycle.
- Infographic summary to have analytical knowledge of in-progress, completed and total amount of tasks.
- Sub-task dividing feature to team members
Proofhub comes with two unique and affordable pricing:
Essential: $45 per month with 40 projects and 15 GB storage space
Unlimited: $89 per month with unlimited access of projects and storage space.
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