5 Best Project Management Tools You Might Not Know

Project management tools make planning more effective, leading to a more successful sprint. Let’s look at 5 nonobvious tools your team might consider adopting.

How to choose the right tool

There’s plenty of sprint planning tools on the market, and many offer similar features, which make it confusing to decide what to choose. But there are a few things that can make decision making easier:

What existing tools do you have?

You may find — especially in the case of small teams — that you can run your meetings on zoom or discord. Maybe your team already works well with Slack (crucial to avoid excess meetings) and has good experience using project management tools like Trello or Asana. This may be all you need, especially if you don’t want to sign up for yet another platform. For others, a program that exclusively tracks their sprints works really well.

Multipurpose software

Many of the platforms listed are designed with a range of teams in mind beyond developers. This can save a company money and make it easier for other departments to track sprint progress, particularly in terms of ROI and deliverables in dealing with things like technical debt that in some companies can be a hard sell against time to market…