Project Management Software/System you use

[Lobão]

Hello everyone,

My name is Leonardo, mentor from team #1860 from Brazil.

I´d like to know if you use any free license software or web-based system for project management for your team.

I have the idea to implement this on our team so we can make it more professional and easy to integrate everybody.

Thanks

[Tim Sharp]

We have used Trello for the last three years. The basic version is free. We are very happy with it.

https://trello.com/

[guniv]

We're also using Trello and it's great! Highly suggest.

[Sperkowsky]

We use trello along with Slack. They work together very nicely.

[Lobão]

Thanks for the sugestion
I'm going to try this one and during season I give a feedback to you

Anyone else have other softwares in use?

[SenorZ]

I've been trying to get the team on Kanbanflow.com ...very similar to Trello. Though Trello has apps! I think I'm switching to Trello.

[Michael Hill]

We're using a combination of Eclipse Papyrus SysML (Free), Google Docs (Free), and Microsoft Project (not free).

SysML is for the Systems Engineering (product breakdown, Concept of Operations, etc.), Google Docs is for sharing documents (N^2 diagrams, design review documents, trade studies and the like), and Project is for Gantt charts and resource/schedule management.

[nuclearnerd]

This is our 2nd year of www.basecamp.com. It's free for educators, and super useful. The great thing is that it integrates those students & mentors who you won't ever convince to log in to a new site - Basecamp will send them emails, and they can respond by email.

[*Rachelle*]

I had never thought of using a program of this type (Trello specifically), do you guys think this is mainly beneficial to large teams or would you recommend it to a small team as well?

[Beaker]

Originally Posted by *Rachelle*

I had never thought of using a program of this type (Trello specifically), do you guys think this is mainly beneficial to large teams or would you recommend it to a small team as well?

I would recommend Trello for a small team. Given, we aren't a small team, but we do use Trello to manage the Programming and Website teams, which are normally groups of maybe 10 to 15 people.

When using Trello I make a list for each project, then I make 2 general lists, "Open Tasks" and "Finished." I give each project a label and I also create a scale of difficulty with the labels so that people of different skill levels on my Programming team can choose to work on tasks that fit their skill.

Since we have increased our use of Trello recently, we feel more organized and it seems like we are getting a lot more done. It's rewarding to put cards on the finished list.

[Chris_Elston]

We run dotproject on a webserver.

http://www.dotproject.net/

[Lobão]

Thanks again for the suggestions
We´ll try the programs. We were searching for something more like trello, web-based or with apps. But we will try the softwares too.
We want to teach some Project Management tips and more powerfull programs maybe usefull. But we don´t want to buy some expensive ones.

I use a online system at work but the price is not good for our team.

I give some feedback during season.

[Camilo86]

We use slack. It works very well with other systems such as github

[GreyingJay]

I've been using Redmine at work to manage tasks and we like it. It could probably work for robotics too but we haven't tried it.

I've seen Trello briefly, will look into it.

[Foster]

We have used Trello for the last three years. The basic version is free. We are very happy with it.

https://trello.com/

Love the example they give




Buy it, then drill the holes and then measure! And they have completed the first two steps!?! Wonder how they knew what size to buy and where to drill?

Oh wait, I'm being told that is standard practice on lots of teams The comment on the task is great "Ugg, going to need a new drill bit. Dang."

Back on topic: https://www.openproject.org/ is OK for small projects like an FRC build.