TOP 5 Project management tools for Software development

Characteristics of project management software to consider are:

• Ease of collaboration and communication
• Innovation and creativity
• Customization feature
• Consumer-centric product roadmap
• Estimate

Key features of Microsoft Team

• It has a chat-based workspace in Office 365.
• Microsoft Team interface is very user-friendly and enables its users to have more than one group and channels.
• It has the feature to host meetings between multiple users which is very useful especially for remote teams to work together with a proper plan. It lets people join over the phone and through a link i.e. guest users can join the meeting without requiring to access the platform.
• Microsoft Teams uses persistent chat, which lets its users view their chat history logs over time.
• Cloud-based team collaboration with having access to information regarding project anywhere and anytime with end-to-end security.

Key features of JIRA:

• Focuses on bug or issues tracking and project management
• JIRA is based on Agile management methodology.
• Reports and workload management feature
• Highly customizable and configurable, users can add their workflow steps, issue views, custom fields.
• There are hundreds of plugins available on the Jira marketplace which one can use to enrich Jira's experience.
• Foster real-time collaboration and progress tracking which is very helpful for the project manager to track team status and help them in ways so they can improve them.
• It is available in free and paid versions which provide users to choose according to their needs.
• Easily customize workflow, collaborate with other team members and ultimately deliver a good product.

Key features of BaseCamp:

• BaseCamp provides message boards to post announcements and ideas to pitch.
• Efficient scheduling modules help to make a proper plan and work efficiently.
• Offers in-built file management for each project and sharing the documents, files, spreadsheets is very easy.
• Excellent individual and group chat features.
• Project-based calendar system in BaseCamp which assists the team to keep track of project milestones and deadline dates.
• Project-based calendar system in BaseCamp which assists the team to keep track of project milestones and deadline dates.
• BaseCamp provides a third-party portal or client portal.
• Extensive integrations available such as Zapier, Pleexy, TaskClone, and much more
• The “Klipfolio” features of BaseCamp help users to visualize all their business metrics on a single dashboard.

• It organizes work into projects as Kanban boards or lists.
• Asana enables break work into tasks and subtasks.
• Schedule tasks and projects by setting a start and finish dates, milestones, and timelines.
• It creates dependencies in case the user has a task that is waiting for the completion of another task.

• It keeps the team accountable and ensures that all know who is working on what and the status of deliverables.
• Trello makes it easy to organize and prioritize projects and delegates specific tasks to each member. Thus, it helps to avoid confusion among other team members.
• Supports both Windows and Mac desktops, with mobile apps available on Android and iOS devices
• Robust project management platform to send messages and quick suggestions.
• Multiple third-party apps integrations like Zoho, Zapier, Evernote, and more.
• It is highly customizable for multiple different project teams