What tools are teams using to estimate and propose tech projects? My firm is still using excel spreadsheets and I’m wondering if there are better tools out there.

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Once again, proof that consultancy firms are the wrong choice for tech projects.

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There’s a lot of tools with PPM capabilities out there: PlanView, Azure DevOps, SmartSheet, Jira

I’d be surprised if Atlassian didn’t have some sort of estimation capability as part of its IDE suite - you can also train AI on historic project data to develop estimates by project archetype

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