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My Review for Free Project Management Tools

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For about a year I had used Trello as my team project management tool. It helps my team to maintain our "to-do" lists. But after increasing project numbers, as operation manager, I feel hard to maintain each of the team jobs on some projects. Some tasks become untouched. After a meeting, our team realizes that what the team need is clear detail about "What should I do today?" or "What should my teammates do today?". We need to find another project management tool. Trello uses the Kanban scheme which is very adaptive. I feel it's not suitable for my team, which consists of some people with different levels of expertise and who work on multiple projects. We need a tool that is better for a more prescriptive process to maintain our projects.
Other features of the project management tool that we need are free, simple, secure, fast, and has mobile support. First, I search on Google for "Best Free Project Management Tool". After that, I decided to try four free tools: Producteev, Azendoo, Freedcamp, and Asana.
Producteev is nice. It is lightweight, has mobile app support, and is easy to use. On a free plan, we can add unlimited users and projects. But I don't choose this tool because it doesn't have a clear scheme to break down jobs on a project.
Freedcamp also serves unlimited users and projects. It has a marketplace in its application where users can install additional features for their organization board like calendar, Google drive integration, etc. Its dashboard default view is a list of all tasks on our project. Then, we can filter tasks by assigned to, due date, and priority. Last, it still doesn't have support for mobile apps.
Azendoo really looks like Asana. The difference is in its projects scheme and some features on the free plan. Azendoo supports unlimited projects and users, much third-party application integration, and mobile support. But it misses some important features for free users. Only paid organizations can change the privacy of their projects. Besides that, the task breakdown scheme is not good enough.

ASANA
Finally, I choose Asana. It has a clear view of all tasks in an organization with a good task breakdown scheme. We can represent tasks into some models such as road maps, ideas, release lists, etc.  There's also a mobile app for Asana. Despite its team number limitation (15 users), I don't think that it's matter because our team member for today's project is not more than that.
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  4. workforce blogsJanuary 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM

    Great review! I found your breakdown of free project management tools really helpful, especially for teams looking to maximize productivity without breaking the budget. Your insights on the pros and cons of each tool made it easier to evaluate options. Looking forward to more valuable recommendations like this!

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