What's the best tool you've discovered recently that has significantly boosted your team's efficacy?

GanttPRO is a nice-looking Gantt chart generator that constantly helps my team improve work processes and boosts productivity. It offers a wide range of robust project management, project portfolio management, team collaboration, resource, and cost management features. It is also known as a powerful MS Project alternative. You can create tasks with lots of settings like statuses, priorities, dates, deadlines, progress, time log, etc. Thanks to the auto-scheduling feature, any change in your tasks, dates, or dependencies will be automatically reflected.

This may seem a bit counter intuitive but the answer for us has been google sheets (not exactly discovered recently, but we sure have realised it's full potential lately). The thing is that we are a small team currently and don't have such complex scenarios of work planning and management so it was making more sense for us to keep things simple on excel-type sheets and maintain our work and progress there itself rather than relying on feature heavy tools. We might need them later in out journey but not now. P.S - We are having our first major product launch on PH on 17th August. We are an early stage company and would really appreciate your support. Please follow the SayData launch page on PH to get notified on launch day. Looking forward to your early reviews and support on the launch day!

It's not about tools. It's about not to use complex and too many of them. Many things on our computers are a distraction. And the worst of them all are meetings. You probably rarely use 80% of the software on your computer and only use 10-20% extensively. So the best "tool" is this: - no fancy productivity tool. - no meetings - check mails not all the time