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We use Riter project management tool for our 10devs team. There you can create projects, group of projects, tasks and subtasks. You can also estimate time, track progress, statistics, the latest activity, assign developers to tasks and so on. You can check demo quickly https://demo.riter.co/login.

I think projectmanagement.com is an excellent resource with a big community of project managers, books, blogs, webinars and so on. You can also look for appropriate communities on Reddit for more useful resources, constant communication and sharing your questions. Some of them are r/projectmanagement, r/agile, r/softdevteam, r/scrum. I also enjoy cio.com website, though it is not just for project managers.

Hi!

What about our team, we are working remotely and use (and work on) Riter: https://riter.co/. However, we are a software development team and don't have the same chaos in the workflow :) Just in case, if it can help you:

Riter allows to manage the whole company with all its projects, teams and customers. The main features are:

- task management and sprint planning (todos, tags, task states);

- time estimation and tracking;

- collaboration (comments, file sharing, assignment, access control);

- project statistics (time spent, activity, performance, etc.);

- groups of projects (combine several projects into temporary groups for simultaneous work);

- GraphQl API.

There're a lot of tools which can help you manage project data and time spent on them. Jira, Trello, Asana, Todoist and so on. Each of them has its own pros and cons. I could try to advice something more concrete if I knew your goals and preferences. Do you work in a team or on your own? Are you working remotely? How big is your team if you have any? What type of projects do you have?

What about our team, we are working remotely and use (and work on) Riter: https://riter.co/. It allows to manage the whole company with all its projects, teams and customers. The main features are:

- task management and sprint planning (todos, tags, task states);

- time estimation and tracking;

- collaboration (comments, file sharing, assignment, access control);

- project statistics (time spent, activity, performance, etc.);

- groups of projects (combine several projects into temporary groups for simultaneous work).

In Riter (https://riter.co/) we use "clean" and "dirty" hours for time tracking. You can read about them here: https://riter.co/docs/time-tracking#estimation-types.

If briefly, developers estimate tasks in clean hours (or minutes), that's approximate time they need to implement this particular job (without taking into account time required for solving technical problems, meetings, reading manuals and so on). As a rule, developers can estimate clean hours rather accurately. But not dirty hours – they are less predictable for most of us.

When working on tasks, developers specify clean and dirty hours spent on them. Based on different estimates, we can calculate the coefficients of performance and accuracy of all developers and more accurately estimate the deadlines in the future. We plan to use AI later to obtain more accurate deadlines on the basis of these coefficients and collected statistics.

As far as I remember, we have described why we don't support points estimation here: https://riter.co/blog/time-estimation-missteps.

I think Telegram (https://telegram.org/) is quite convenient for communication within a team, however, it is not such the workflow-oriented software as Slack is.

Our team used several apps before (like Asana and Wrike), but now we are working on our own tool. It's rather a project management software for teams, not just task planning for an individual user.

Try to choose the idea of your project based on what you are interested in, and not on the complexity of the task. Do not focus on tools, technologies, or anything similar - just think about a goal or subject to your taste. You can even come up with something completely new, which is not created yet. Perhaps, if you are really interested in what you are doing, it does not matter how simple or complicated it is, and how much time it can take.

Yes, it does, I had to mention that. However, it's free now. We tried to use some existing tools earlier, but the own one is always better suited for particular team needs. So Riter was developed primarily for personal use, not for sale. Maybe someone will also find it useful.

I'm from a small remote team of 8 employees, we use Riter (https://riter.co). It provides a basic set of necessary features for project management, time tracking, estimation and control. Here's an existing demo company for quick review https://demo.riter.co/login

Agree with the previous answer - "it depends", so I can tell only about some of the companies I know. My company is very flexible in this regard - every employee works when he/she is comfortable. We agree on calls in advance. To organize the workflow, we use several tools:

- Git for all software development (Github, Gitlab);

- Skype, Telegram for chatting, calls;

- Riter for project management/teamwork (plan and estimate sprints/tasks, add and track time spent on them, comments, file sharing, reports and so on);

And that's enough. Another company that I know prefers that all team members work simultaneously, but their employees live in some of the neighboring time zones (the difference is up to 2-3 hours).

I quess a lot of existing tools allow to do the same or something similar. For example, Riter (https://riter.co). It requires minimal efforts to create any task - you just need to specify its title, other parameters are optional. When necessary, you are able to add something else to the tasks - topics (tags like bug, feature, backend and others), description, todos, comments etc. Each task has a state (in progress, estimated, done and so on). In future you will be able to add your own set of states (maybe "debug", "checking" or what you need).

At the moment Riter is not available for self-hosting - while it's in beta, we'd like to first check and debug its work properly on our side. When we release (in about 4-5 months), Riter's Enterprise plan (https://riter.co/#pricing) will probably be a good choice for your requirements.

We provide a dedicated space for each company's data, so that you remain protected from third-party interference. The distribution of user access rights and roles prevents accidental or deliberate data corruption by your employees. Enterprise plan will include two-factor authentication, SAML 2.0 support and custom OAuth 2.0 integration. Our team is constantly tracking vulnerabilities and fixing them. We use secure data transfer protocols and reliable servers. If you are interested in something specific - we are ready to answer any additional questions.