October 2, 2012 at 17:24A survey of controls. Second part
Together with CMS Magazine, we have completed the first phase of collecting information on managing web development companies. The survey involved 28 studios, and we already have some data.
We received most of the answers on Habrahabr - it is not surprising that the audience showed more interest in the technical side of things, shifting the emphasis from management to development. We obey the opinions of the participants.
Almost all participants gracefully circumvented the essence of the issue: to talk about the management structure of the company and instead immediately went on to list the specific technical means used in the work. But that did not stop us from adjusting our list of business processes.
They pointed out to us the most important process that we missed: working with company personnel.
Judging by the answers, the audience is interested not only in management tools, but also in specific application tools: design tools, storing passwords and source codes, creating backups and file sharing.
Agile companies were asked to make a separate point for them: Agile process management.
No one wanted to talk about informal communication within the company, as well as about interaction with contractors. But we decided to leave these points in the survey.
We also somewhat confused everyone with external and internal communications: in the second version, we simplified everything and left only the “Communication Tools”.
And now a little specificity.
Now we know that:
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We received most of the answers on Habrahabr - it is not surprising that the audience showed more interest in the technical side of things, shifting the emphasis from management to development. We obey the opinions of the participants.
Almost all participants gracefully circumvented the essence of the issue: to talk about the management structure of the company and instead immediately went on to list the specific technical means used in the work. But that did not stop us from adjusting our list of business processes.
What were we asked to change?
They pointed out to us the most important process that we missed: working with company personnel.
Judging by the answers, the audience is interested not only in management tools, but also in specific application tools: design tools, storing passwords and source codes, creating backups and file sharing.
Agile companies were asked to make a separate point for them: Agile process management.
No one wanted to talk about informal communication within the company, as well as about interaction with contractors. But we decided to leave these points in the survey.
We also somewhat confused everyone with external and internal communications: in the second version, we simplified everything and left only the “Communication Tools”.
And now a little specificity.
Now we know that:
- Almost all companies pay much attention to sales and actively use CRM.
- Very few people use combined ERPs; most of the respondents choose individual programs and services that perform narrow tasks.
- The absolute leaders of the references are Redmine, Git and Mercurial. Opensource drives!
- The most universal solution was Redmine. Many companies use it to manage three or more processes from our list.
- Among the commercial project management systems, Megaplan and Basecamp are most often called.
- And of course, Google should be very pleased that almost all sites for which there are no specialized tools are managed using Google.Docs.
Help us collect even more interesting data - take part in the second CMS Magazine survey in your personal account. If your web studio or agency is not in the ranking - it's time to register .
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