Activity 2.

Task: Models for the estimations

Nicolás García Romero

Universidad Manuela Beltrán

UMB Virtual

Bogotá, Colombia

2021
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Project Management Software is used by a wide range of industries for project planning, resource
allocation and scheduling.

Some of the key functionalities the Project Management Software must include are:

- Task lists.
- Schedules.
- File sharing.
- Reporting.

The top 20 best project management software are:

- Meister Task: Is a powerful Kanban structure facilitates the smooth management of

projects. With its wide range of collaborative capabilities, this smart, intuitive online task
management tool is a popular choice for teams that value clean visual design and user
experience.

Website: www.meistertask.com

- Basecamp: is a popular project management software that is widely used by many

projects’ management teams. This software offers several different collaboration features
such as a designated discussion area where users can leave behind comments.
Additionally, a recap of the projects your team is working (e.g., statuses and updates) is
sent out daily to your email. Users can contribute to discussions via email as well. If you
are unable to find a particular item, you can make use of this software’s powerful search
tool to locate files or conversations. Some shortcomings, however, include the lack of
milestones and customization options as well as the inability to add an estimated duration
for a task or assign it to more than one user.

Website: www.basecamp.com
 - Nifty: is a new-wave project management tool that reduces project development cycles
and improves team productivity by combining all the important features of project
management into one software.

Website: www.niftypm.com

- Teamwork Projects: The app is quite flexible and includes various intuitive features such as
Task Management, Milestones (e.g., you can link task lists to Milestones), Messaging, File
Storage, Time Tracking tools, and more. Teamwork also helps project teams visualize the
project using a marked calendar, Gantt chart and set-up reporting. File management
support is accessible with DropBox, Google Drive and Box.com.

Website: www.teamwork.com

- ProofHub: is an online project management app that places an emphasis on simplicity.

This app offers to create custom roles for users to create Gantt charts. The following are
some of the subcomponents of ProofHub: Custom Roles, Task management, Workflows
and Boards, Gantt Charts, Reports, Time tracking, Discussions, Chat, Calendar, File
management, Notes, and in-app notifications.

Website: www.proofhub.com

- Zoho Projects: is an extensive project management software with a clean and

straightforward interface. This software covers the following areas everything from Project
Planning (breaking down projects into manageable units) and Gantt Charts (to visual the
progress of tasks) to Reporting Tools, Collaboration Software (to ease contact between
consultants, vendors, employees, and clients) and Document Management. It can also be
integrated with tools such as Google Apps and DropBox. Here is a more in-depth look at
Zoho.

Website: www.zoho.eu

- Trello: it is an online kanban tool. This means that it visualizes an entire project in just one
single view. Trello makes it possible to make cards and move them around on the ‘board’.
These cards can display – for example, conversations or to-do lists, which can be placed on
a board, making them accessible for any of the designated tool users.

Webssite: www.trello.com
 - Jira: Is a popular project management software that caters mostly to agile, software
development teams. Within the software, these teams can create customizable scrum
boards, Kanban boards, and make use of agile reporting (in real-time). Users can also track
bugs, view any outstanding issues, and monitor time spent per task. JIRA comes with a
robust set of APIs that enable users to connect it with many third-party software’s.

Website: www.atlassian.com

- Asana: This software offers Team Pages where ideas and conversations are shared for all
to see as well as a ‘Smart Box’ where team members receive only important project
updates rather than all messages back and forth. It can be integrated with many other
systems including Google Drive, DropBox, Github, MailChimp and more.

Website: www.asana.com

- Monday.com: Start with this app by creating your personal workflow. With this workflow
you can visualize and highlight elements like time management, text, or locations. You can
share and work with this tool with your whole team and save time by only recording the
important documents and conversations.

Website: www.monday.com

- Wrike: is a cloud-based collaboration and project management software. This tool helps its
users keep track of day-to-day operations and ensures that the project is finished within a
certain frame and pre-determined cost. When setting up tasks, Wrike can be integrated
with other business tools such as Google Apps, Microsoft Excel, Dropbox and many more.

Website: www.wrike.com

- Adobe Workfront: Is a project management software offers customizable project

dashboards, real-time reporting and clear visibility of all ongoing tasks and operations. It
also offers capacity planning and project prioritization tools as well as notifies teams of
work in progress. Workfront can be integrated with other systems such as Adobe Creative
Cloud, Google Drive and Microsoft Outlook.

Website: www.workfront.com
 - Hubstaff: Is a tool with automated workflows, based on the agile methodology. With
Hubstaff you can focus on your sprints by prioritizing tasks, automated stand-ups and
easily share comments and the status of the project with your team members.

Website: www.hubstaff.com

- LiquidPlanner: is a project management software that adapts to your business

automatically. For example, when a user’s priorities and resources change, the software
automatically updates these changes. This software also offers cross-project visibility,
showing insights into progress, risks, and budgets for all projects at once. Its advanced
analytics help users manage project performance, view costs and profits, and monitor
resource utilization, client portfolios and baseline trends.

Website: www.liquidplanner.com

- Clickup: is perfect for process and task management. You can customize your workflow,
assign tasks, and add different types of dependencies for tasks. If you work Agile, this tool
will suit you. Manage your sprints, manage the resources, check the workload of your
team, and work together with other teams in this tool.

Website: www.clickup.com

- TeamGantt: is a project management software that caters well to smaller businesses. The
software allows users to invite colleagues to a Gantt chart, which they can also edit once
access has been granted. TeamGantt’s only weak points are in-app communication and
collaboration.

Website: www.teamgantt.com

- Backlog: is a project management and collaboration tool for different teams in an

organization. Sales teams can track leads, while development teams can assign issues and
review code within this one tool.

Website: www.backlog.com
 - Celoxis: This software is simple and straightforward with a responsive interface that
includes a Gantt chart view of projects and several different financial tools that can help
track hours and project income. Celoxis hosts an online version (the SaaS plan) or users
can host the data themselves. This software has many great features, but where it really
stands out is reporting with its advanced reporting engine, drill-down charts, time-phrased
data, and flexible/shareable reports.

Website: www.celoxis.com

- Plutio: is an all-in-one business management platform designed to help you manage

projects and tasks, create proposals, and send invoices. Track your time from anywhere
and visualise everyone’s time entries in a powerful timesheet, with Plutio you stay
organized.

Website: www.plutio.com

- ProjectManager.com: This award-winning tool has several nice features including task
management and time sheets, both of which can be updated remotely. This project
management tool also offers its users Gantt charts, Project Planning features and a real-
time dashboard.

Website: www.projectmanager.com
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