Where Current Project Management Tools and How-To Sites Fail
Why can’t existing task/project management tools and how-to websites effectively manage all of the different activities in my life?
Don’t get me wrong, Remember The Milk and OmniFocus are great task managers that can keep track of my daily to-dos.
And Basecamp, CentralDesktop, and JIRA do a pretty good job of enabling co-workers to collaborate by providing a structured way to interact, though they are too heavy for most of my projects. I’m still looking for a tool that starts simple and scales with the complexity of my projects.
After talking to users of MyOffice, we realized that many of them are asking simple questions – not about the structure of their project plans – but about content. How do I get started on this project? What steps do I follow?
For answers, they turn to how-to websites like eHow and wikiHow. But how do you track your progress? And if you’re working on a collaborative project, how will you track who’s done what?
We think, at the intersection of all of these tools, there’s a problem that is begging to be solved. We need a tool that not only helps keep track of all our daily tasks and projects, but also gives assistance when we are searching out our next steps.