Agile’s popularity is growing among software development teams. Agile project management tools free are lightweight, easy to use, and have a low learning curve. This makes them perfect for small teams looking to try out agile project management without spending time or money on training or onboarding.
Have you ever wondered what agile project management tools are the best to use? There are a lot of them out there, but not all of them can help you manage your projects effectively. That’s why I have prepared a list of tools that I am personally using, and which I think will shine on your projects.
Backlog
Backlog is an all-in-one online project management tool for task management, version control, and bug tracking. With features like subtasking, custom issue fields, and Gantt charts, it’s easy for teams to define, organize, and track their work. Burndown charts, Git & SVN repositories, and Wikis help developers review, track, release, and document their code. And targeted notifications keep everyone in the loop along the way. Bringing together the organizational benefits of project management with the power and convenience of code management, Backlog enhances team collaboration across organizations large and small.
Smartsheet
Smartsheet is a no-code platform that’s flexible and dynamic enough to handle both single project and end-to-end work management. According to their website, Smartsheet is trusted by more than 90% of Fortune 100 Companies.
Smartsheet pioneered the work on no-code platforms and has worked on the technology for over 15 years. Their goal is to help your business grow by giving you the ability to conveniently automate workflows, successfully align your global teams, and most importantly to rapidly build a virtually limitless number of scalable solutions.
Smartsheet integrations include Microsoft and Google apps, as well as development essentials like Jira, and useful business apps like Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, Box, and Tableau. The platform is extensible through a REST API and webhooks.
Smartsheet costs from $14/month and offers a free trial. Enterprise pricing details are available upon request.
monday.com
monday.com makes it easy to manage your agile projects in one place. Users can save time with workflow automations, visualize their information in views they prefer (Gantt, Kanban, timeline, calendar, tasklist), and make use of tons of templates and integrations.
Because monday.com so easy to navigate, most users can onboard quickly using the built-in tutorial wizard and training videos. Features like private messaging, uploading files, user tagging, drag-and-drop charts, and click-to-edit data fields are intuitive enough that even low tech individuals can learn fast.
monday.com’s integrations include project management apps like Slack, Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar, Jira, GitHub, Trello, Dropbox, Typeform and many more, accessible through a paid plan with Zapier.
monday.com costs from $10/user/month and they offer a free forever plan for 2 seats and limited features. Enterprise pricing details are available upon request.
Hansoft
Hansoft’s fast and intuitive interface, powerful find/report tools, and a host of other features can run different project management methods depending on your project. Hansoft is scalable and configurable since it was inspired by the Project Management Institute (PMI), Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), and Large Scale SCRUM (LeSS). Its core feature critical for planning and tracking is the backlog, which can be refined by any custom attribute to your deliverables.
Cost: Completely free for up to 2 users. It allows unlimited projects and programs.
YouTrack
We found that YouTrack has the best reporting feature of any tools on this list. Whether you’re looking for burndown charts, timeline reports, and more—all available on a live dashboard. Newest features include improved, project-based swimlanes, advanced visibility options, and time report improvements.
Cost: Free for ten users and 5GB of storage. Paid options are based on the number of users and start at $20 per month.
GitHub
Description
GitHub is a web development platform that is inspired by your work style. It enables you to handle software development projects side-by-side with 40 million developers.
Main features
- The tool features built-in review options to host and review code.
- Integrate with apps you can find on GitHub Marketplace.
- Coordinate tasks, stay tuned, and optimize output whatever the size of the team.
- Write up comprehensive documents specifying all the awesome features of the software you develop.
- Store all your code in one place. The platform (with its 100+ million hosted projects) provides repositories equipped with tools to help you host, version, and release private, public, or open-source code.
Pricing
Free plan and free trial available. Pro plan costs $7 per month.
LeanKit
Description
LeanKit is a visual project management and delivery tool. Lean principles implementation is advantageous for all types of teams with all levels of the organization. Whether you are using Kanban, Scrum, Waterfall, or other methodology, LeanKit gets rid of the waste and maximizes the success rate of your project delivery.
Main features
- The tool allows consuming information visually.
- Remove the guts and waste from your work process to maximize the output.
- Use Lean Metrics to measure your workflow and find the starting points for improvement.
- The platform is scalable; increase the number of projects, teams, and locations.
Pricing
Starting from $19 per user/month. Free 30-day trial available.
Asana
Asana is the ultimate task management tool. It allows teams to share, plan, organize, and track the progress of the tasks that each member is working on. It is simple, easy in usage and is free for up to 30 users in a team. As all the previous agile project management software platforms with the main objective in allowing us to manage projects and tasks. What is noticeable is that you don’t need to have even an email to use Asana. Each team can create its workplace that will contain projects and project’s tasks; each task can have notes, comments, attachments and tags.This tool can be used as for the small processes and for the giant ones without any limits in the industries or departments.
Drag
Drag transforms your Gmail into organized Task Lists. It’s a free Chrome extension that turns your inbox into a manageable workspace (just like Trello, but for Gmail). Now, many well-known companies like Uber, Airbnb, Netflix, Spotify and others use it to improve the efficincy of email management. On the 18th June they are launching Drag Team! Now, not only individuals can organize their inbox in Trello-style boards, but also teams can collaborate on emails, right from inside Gmail. This means that teams working together in a project or managing accounts such as sales@ or support@ don’t need to manage multiple external apps to get things done.
Conclusion:
Software development projects have been under constant stress from the marketplace. Agile software development is an attempt to address this challenge by improving software project management and making it more flexible. One of the challenges of project management is the selection of tools that can be used to measure progress and even scope a project.