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Product Review: Zoho Projects
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Product Review: Zoho Projects

I’m continually curious to learn more about the enterprise project management software market 🤓 This time, I’m taking a look at Zoho Projects, the project management software solution associated with a much larger Chennai-based B2B software company called Zoho.

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Product Review: Asana
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Product Review: Asana

Asana’s tagline is to “work on big ideas, without the busywork.” How much latent productivity could you unlock if knowledge workers spent more time on their area of expertise rather than on the mechanics of managing and reporting on their personal workloads? This is where Asana seeks to add value.

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Product Review: Smartsheet
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Product Review: Smartsheet

Smartsheet bills itself as an enterprise collaboration platform that combines email, documents, calendar, file storage, and communication capabilities in one application. As I took Smartsheet for a test run, I was most struck by its versatility.

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Product Review: Moqups
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Product Review: Moqups

Moqups sees its product as a solution to the ongoing challenges around requirements definition. In their view, creating good requirements is “more art than science.” Engaging a diverse swathe of people early in the process and continuing to question and refine initial hypotheses is key to generating the best possible set of requirements.

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Product Review: Hive
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Product Review: Hive

Hive is productivity and collaboration software that is famously used by teams at world-class companies ranging from Google to Starbucks to Toyota to IBM. As a productivity and community building enthusiast, Hive was on my list of products to try.

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Product Review: Roadmunk
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Product Review: Roadmunk

Roadmunk is a roadmapping software designed to fill a gap left by many popular project management products—the ability to communicate strategy to an executive audience. I’ve faced this challenge many times in my career when using the work management products commonly available in an office environment.

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Product Review: Ganttic
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Product Review: Ganttic

This product review is about Ganttic, a resource planning software named after a project manager’s best friend, the Gantt chart. While the Gantt chart and I may not be besties, I was intrigued by Ganttic’s flexibility and large number of potential use cases, ranging from team calendar management to project management.

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Product Review: Hey
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Product Review: Hey

Oh, hey! Here comes the ubiquitous Hey product review. Hey is a subscription-based email service that was developed by Basecamp, a time management software company renowned for its forward-leaning practices around the future of work. Productivity nerds like me have been eagerly awaiting the launch of Hey for months.

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Product Review: Microsoft Planner
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Product Review: Microsoft Planner

I’m not a spokesperson for Microsoft Planner, but I should be. It’s no exaggeration to say that this tool transformed the way I work and helped me recover from a place of burnout. Let me give the context for why I find Planner to be such an effective tool.

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Pruning the List
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Pruning the List

We can try every possible hack to become more productive. We can use a Kanban board to visually document the backlog. We can batch similar tasks to knock them out more quickly. But ultimately what we need to do is prune. If we haven’t pruned, we’ll forever be rough around the edges—overcommitted and overextended.

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Product Review: Bridge24 for Trello
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Product Review: Bridge24 for Trello

Trello is one of my favorite productivity tools—I use this free Kanban board application to track progress against my goals. So, when I came upon an application that advertises itself as an analytical extender for Trello, I had to test it out. Here is my review of Bridge24 for Trello.

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