Project Management

bobgaggle

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Wonder what you guys use for managing your projects. My job responsibilities don't include the whole scope of a job, (bids/budgets/calendars) just the fabrication side of building scenery, so a powerful app like Project isn't worth the cost. I upgraded from my yellow legal pad to Trello, the digital kanban board. Works great for helping me track a job through its steps, ie: order materials, weld the metal, clad the metal with wood, add the trim, go back and drill that hole that we forgot, etc etc... What do you TD's/foremen/project managers use for keeping track of jobs?
 
I've dabbled in Trello, but am dedicated to Asana. I really like the way I can organize all the tasks in a project, and then as tasks are assigned to users each user can arrange their own tasks across multiple projects as they see fit, while staying linked to the parent project. If you're clever with tags, etc, you can generate different lists and report. And there are lots of API integrations, including Gantt charts. Free for small teams, with only a few missing premium features.

I've also been playing with airtable, which is kind of a spreadsheet with features that make it more useable for things other than crunching numbers. Or perhaps more accurately, it's a lite database in spreadsheet form (the way we often abuse spreadsheets to be).
 

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