How I Keep Track of Projects & Progress
Posted on Thursday, November 26th, 2009 under SoftwareLife is messy. That’s forgivable. Your business, however, is not as flexible. Keeping track of your progress is vital to maintaining and growing your revenue. There are a number of solutions to this, here’s a few of mine:
Pivotal Tracker – PT is a free web-based project management tool. Its simplicity makes it ideal for keeping track of small and personal projects. It supports collaboration, but lacks the organizational structure provided by activeCollab..
activeCollab – aC is a powerful project management platform. It’s self-hosted, well polished and highly agile. It’s perfect for larger projects where you need to collaborate with others. Check out the tour for a brief outline of the features. At $250 it’s not cheap, but well worth the money if your business relies heavily on collaboration with others.
MediaWiki – A great deal of what I do is research. In reality, however, it’s rare that I come across data I would apply on a daily basis. If it’s important but not of immediate use, I dump it into a wiki – my personal knowledge base. It beats taking notes because it allows me to search and organize my thoughts far more clearly.
My Life Organized – before going to sleep, I dump all the tasks I need to work on the following day and read through it when I turn my computer on the next morning. My personal preference for this is MLO, a simple program that I use to keep track of the day’s tasks. I try to break the tasks down into small pieces, this encourages me to finish them without procrastinating. Seeing the list of accomplished tasks at the end of the day is both satisfying and motivating.
On a related note, it’s worth nothing the flexibility and convenience of Google Calendar. It’s synced with Gmail, my Android-based phone, and all of my computers.
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