Marg Freedcamp

The project management system, Freedcamp has a lot of great aspects. One would be the user friendliness. It has such an easy way to set up projects and move them from - "No Progress", "In Progress", and "Completed" This aspect makes it easy to see where you are with each project. You can also place due dates and assign each assignment to an individual on your team.

I dislike the fact that there is very little customization. This is an assignment manager and does not necessarily work well for a company with a lot of clients. It begins to get long and overwhelming. Hard to keep up with.

This would work best if you have a single or only a few services. Also, if you have fewer clients.

It solved Project Management for one of our individual departments. The ease of use and ease to see where you are in each project is really not comparable.

What do you like best?

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The Tasks list provides the ability to change the layout of pending tasks by multiple filters is great. It also provides a great amount of flexibility for including screenshots and visuals in a easy to understand format. Additionally, any images or files attached to an update within a task are easily found through the "Files" tab and can be sorted by numerous filters. When dealing with a large amount of images like we were, it proves very helpful for finding older assets attributed to already completed tasks.

When creating sub-tasks, it's not possible to append updates or comments directly to that subtask. They can only be addressed as complete or not by checking the tick-box. The main tasks allow you to set "In Progress" but subs only allow complete.

We used Freedcamp to track the progress of two, large Freelance projects. The first was the overhaul of a website's back and front end, delegating tasks to 20+ developers. The second was for a 3d modeling and animation project consisting of hundreds of separate 3d assets and renders. In both cases, Freedcamp allowed the client real-time updates on the status of their projects.

I appreciate that it is a platform that lets you gather people across different spaces without needing to provide access to private servers.

The interface can be a bit awkward and if the only person granting permissions leaves the project, you've got no recourse/no way to interact with the other people on tasks.

Make sure you have multiple full-access admins.

Multi-company design projects, with set milestones and reminders.

Above everything else, the price when combined with features like the Kanban can't be beat. Many project management programs we looked at were simply too complex or too expensive for the smaller scale projects we manage.

Personally, I am not a huge fan of the wall feature. I have other programs I use for communication outside of Freedcamp and would like to be able to integrate those into the space.

We work on small projects that often involve two or three people. Ultimately we were looking for a program that would allow us to collaborate with each other from a distance. This allowed us to do so.