Task due dates - Often a certain task needs to be completed by a certain date, adding a due date is a useful way to indicate this and overdue/late tasks are displayed in red to attract attention.Task priority - As the number of tasks grows it’s quite useful to be able to assign a priority to tasks of high, medium or low without having to keep shuffling the order of tasks in a task list.Recurring tasks - Being able to configure tasks to recur on a certain basis is really useful and we make use of this to carry out regular content management system updates and other repeating tasks.It helps to keep the overview of tasks clear as you can choose to hide and show sub-tasks as needed. Sub-tasks - Being able to group tasks under a main task is extremely useful and it’s a feature of Teamwork we use every single day.This functionality is offered in such a way that it’s there if you need it but if you don’t you won’t feel like the user experience is any worse off because of it. Tasks in Teamwork offer a rich array of functionality, which is often lacking in other platforms. That’s pretty impressive given how much the platform has evolved. Every change Teamwork have made has been done in such a way that has not left the more long-term users hunting around to find something they used to know where to find. Over the years there’s been a whole host of functionality and features added, but at no point has the user-interface started to struggle to offer its bulging swiss army knife of functionality to users. The team behind Teamwork Projects does not shy away from adding new features and functionality if there’s a genuine need for it and it provides a good improvement for users and I can personally vouch that their judgement in this regard is very good. Teamwork can also send out reminders when a milestone is approaching and due. Milestones - Teamwork allows us to link task lists to milestones and each milestone has a due date, this helps to keep projects on track by linking a group of tasks (a task list) to a due date.We encourage clients to use this in preference to email as it allows us to easily communicate with clients whilst allowing all team members to easily refer back to previous threads that they may not have been directly involved in. Messaging - Following quickly after managing tasks, the next most used feature of Teamwork Projects for us is the messaging facility.This allows us to visually present to both colleagues and clients the latest status of a particular task. Board view - The paint is still drying on this latest addition, the board view of tasks has been an instant hit in the Enovate office, they allow us to set-up columns that our tasks can then transition through.This ensures that we don’t miss essential things during a web design project such as checking that Google Analytics is tracking correctly. Managing tasks - This is probably our number one use for Teamwork, every time we start a new project we use tasklist templates (saved lists of tasks) to populate the project with nearly 200 individual tasks that we need to complete as part of a web design project.These are the top features of Teamwork we use on a daily basis:
We started using Teamwork when it was called TeamworkPM way back in 2009, so we’re pretty well qualified to provide a review of the platform!
We use Teamwork Projects for almost any type of project including web design, web development and web applications along with managing day-to-day ad hoc support and maintenance tasks.
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