Goalkeeper is an online project management system that uses tracking software and team collaboration to help users meet their goals more effectively. No matter what type of business you run, Goalkeeper allows you to map out projects, delegate tasks, share files, and keep track of the issues and bugs that could seriously throw your project off course.
Unlike many other project management systems, Goalkeeper lets you try out its features with a free 30-day trial before deciding for sure whether it’s an application your company could use. Once you sign on and designate yourself as a team leader, get started by creating a new project and inviting collaborators to join in and take part. Once your whole team has signed up, you can add tickets, delegate tasks, and set deadlines. Use color-coded labels to stay organized, and stay on track with the overall project status by customizing your dashboard to show all the most pertinent information. When a collaborator has completed a task, his or her status will be updated and you’ll receive a notice allowing you to confirm the ‘finished’ status or send the ticket back to be fixed and completed again.
Goalkeeper can help keep your clients more in the loop, too, by allowing them limited access to your company site that shows only the projects they need to view. If a project seems like it’s getting off course, clients can send a personalized message or leave a comment for a specific team member with additional information on what needs to be fixed. Overall, Goalkeeper is a feature-heavy project management system that could really be useful to a wide variety of businesses.
Practical Uses:
- Stay organized when working on a big project
- Share documents without fear of losing or misplacing an important file
- Assign tasks to team members and receive notice when work is done
- Set budgets and view how much money has been spent at any given time
Insider Tips:
- Use settings to determine what each collaborator can view within the system
- Sort project tasks by status, priority, or alphabetically
- Email to-do lists to all collaborators with a simple click of a button
- Import team contact information from Google Contacts
What we liked:
- Drag and drop functionality makes organizing lists easy
- Ability to adjust task deadlines if the need should arise
- No sign up fee or long-term financial commitments after joining
- Create task tickets and additional to-do checklists for collaborators
What we didn’t like:
- Many project management systems already exist with similar features and functionality
Alternatives:
- Basecamp – http://basecamphq.com
- COMINDWORK – http://www.comindwork.com
- Less Projects – http://lessprojects.com
- Peago – http://www.peago.com
Company Info:
- Launched: May 2009
- Privately Held
- Headquarters: Serbia
- Web site: http://www.goalkeeper.rs
Costs:
- Free plan for individual users
- Freelance plan is $29/month
- Professional plan is $69/month
All articles are curated and personally reviewed by Dave Onkels. Dave is tech addict and has a passion for rich web applications. He has cultivated several tech startups and runs
Thank you for your review. We are currently working on new version with even more features while our main focus in still on usability. We use Goalkeeper every day for our own projects and it’s getting better every day.
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Goalkeeper team.
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Thanks for sharing this nice information. I have been using MS Project 2007 for project management solutions. I’d like to use Free plan for individual users.
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