Our favorite tools and planning processes for our clients to use

Vlad Lokshin
darwinapps
Published in
1 min readSep 1, 2016

Many teams go hunting for a silver bullet when it comes to PM software and communications, especially when working with outside engineering teams like DarwinApps.

Secret: there are no silver bullets. Asana? Jira? Trello? Slack? Hipchat? Choosing the right one won’t make or break your project. Having the right process to clearly set and prioritize objectives is what will have a massive impact on the project.

We try to make this process as simple as possible, so here it is:

  • Teams set objectives monthly
  • Individual Team Members share how they’ll fulfill those objectives weekly

As far as tools go, teams should use what they’re most comfortable with. If your team is open to anything, we suggest clients try:

Reporting is a key piece to all of this working properly.

“What gets measured gets improved.”
- Peter Drucker, Management Guru

Our project managers make sure everything we’ve planned together gets shared with you in a clear and easy-to-digest way.

DarwinApps has a clear mutual goal with our clients: be as efficient with every hour as possible. A wasted hour is wasted time for one of our beloved team members and wasted money from our client’s budget. Reporting is how we measure, and measuring is how we learn.

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Vlad Lokshin
darwinapps

Co-founder and CEO @ TurtleOS.com. Always happy to help other founders/immigrants. Believer in fractional work.