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A minimal — but promising — Spreadbase
I had a few reasons to take a look at Zenkit, a product that the company (also called Zenkit) positions as online project management.
The solution is an example of what I call a spreadbase, like Airtable, Coda, and Smartsheet: apps that rely on an underlying database and with a user experience that presents spreadsheet- or document-like views over the information in the database.
Zenkit provides a variety of views, including Kanban, table, wiki, mindmap, and hierarchy.
A look at Zenkit
Here’s a Kanban example I created, capturing some research alternatives for my work for Gigaom in 2020. First, a very simple Kanban, ordering research projects by when I might undertake them. For example, a research report on People Analytics is now in production, so it appears in the Doing column.
Next, a 2D representation of the same data, but partitioned into ‘swimlanes’ based on software domains. People Analytics, HRIS/HCM, and Recruitment and Hiring: Applicant Tracking all fall into the People Operations domain.
