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.
Product Review: Balsamiq
One tool that keeps coming up in the product management literature that I have not yet had the opportunity to use is Balsamiq. For those who haven’t heard of this product, Balsamiq is an online tool that you can use to create wireframes—or preliminary versions—of your product designs.
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.
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.
Product Review: TeuxDeux
Even though I primarily use Kanban boards to manage my tasks, like any card-carrying productivity enthusiast these days, I still can’t help but be a sucker for the old school to do list. When I came across TeuxDeux, a platform that bills itself as a simple yet elegant to do list for the web, I knew I had to sign up. To do lists and French? I’m in.
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.
Product Review: OKRs.app
My readers know I’m obsessed with goal setting (see here and here.) In an effort to do this bigger and better than before, I’ve been working to transition from setting annual goals to quarterly OKRs, or objectives and key results. For those who are not familiar with this concept, OKRs are a goal setting framework popular in the tech world.
Product Review: Evernote
Now that many of us, myself included, are undergoing a period of forced solitude and reflection, it seems like a good opportunity to test out some productivity products that I have been meaning to explore. I’ll start this series by brushing the dust off a product that I had experimented with many years ago—Evernote.
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.
Project Management Products Tell All
By popular request, this post describes some of the products that I use to manage my personal projects. I could happily exist on a desert island as long as I had Internet and the following apps.
Product Review: Mindly
PMs wish we could spend more time mapping our minds and less time putting out fires. There's something tantalizing about the notion that, if we only had the right amount of time or the right resources or the right fill-in-the-blank, we could unlock the knowledge that could help solve our projects. Ergo, the (digital) mind map.
Product Review: Simplenote
As a PM nerd, I'm always on the hunt for project management hacks that will make my projects (and my life) more efficient. Today's featured tool is Simplenote. It's a desktop, web, and mobile application developed by Automattic, the parent company behind the Wordpress blogging platform. The application's purpose is truly as basic as it sounds--to offer a clean and simple interface for taking notes.