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We use Riter project management tool for our 10devs team. There you can create projects, group of projects, tasks and subtasks. You can also estimate time, track progress, statistics, the latest activity, assign developers to tasks and so on. You can check demo quickly https://demo.riter.co/login.

I think projectmanagement.com is an excellent resource with a big community of project managers, books, blogs, webinars and so on. You can also look for appropriate communities on Reddit for more useful resources, constant communication and sharing your questions. Some of them are r/projectmanagement, r/agile, r/softdevteam, r/scrum. I also enjoy cio.com website, though it is not just for project managers.

Hi!

What about our team, we are working remotely and use (and work on) Riter: https://riter.co/. However, we are a software development team and don't have the same chaos in the workflow :) Just in case, if it can help you:

Riter allows to manage the whole company with all its projects, teams and customers. The main features are:

- task management and sprint planning (todos, tags, task states);

- time estimation and tracking;

- collaboration (comments, file sharing, assignment, access control);

- project statistics (time spent, activity, performance, etc.);

- groups of projects (combine several projects into temporary groups for simultaneous work);

- GraphQl API.

There're a lot of tools which can help you manage project data and time spent on them. Jira, Trello, Asana, Todoist and so on. Each of them has its own pros and cons. I could try to advice something more concrete if I knew your goals and preferences. Do you work in a team or on your own? Are you working remotely? How big is your team if you have any? What type of projects do you have?

What about our team, we are working remotely and use (and work on) Riter: https://riter.co/. It allows to manage the whole company with all its projects, teams and customers. The main features are:

- task management and sprint planning (todos, tags, task states);

- time estimation and tracking;

- collaboration (comments, file sharing, assignment, access control);

- project statistics (time spent, activity, performance, etc.);

- groups of projects (combine several projects into temporary groups for simultaneous work).

In Riter (https://riter.co/) we use "clean" and "dirty" hours for time tracking. You can read about them here: https://riter.co/docs/time-tracking#estimation-types.

If briefly, developers estimate tasks in clean hours (or minutes), that's approximate time they need to implement this particular job (without taking into account time required for solving technical problems, meetings, reading manuals and so on). As a rule, developers can estimate clean hours rather accurately. But not dirty hours – they are less predictable for most of us.

When working on tasks, developers specify clean and dirty hours spent on them. Based on different estimates, we can calculate the coefficients of performance and accuracy of all developers and more accurately estimate the deadlines in the future. We plan to use AI later to obtain more accurate deadlines on the basis of these coefficients and collected statistics.

As far as I remember, we have described why we don't support points estimation here: https://riter.co/blog/time-estimation-missteps.

I think Telegram (https://telegram.org/) is quite convenient for communication within a team, however, it is not such the workflow-oriented software as Slack is.