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January 20, 2011

Splendid Bacon – The Super-Lean Project Management App

Ever wonder how other people stay organized when managing multiple projects at once? With a site like Splendid Bacon, a web-app that was put together with the basic assumption that traditional project management applications include too many senseless features that few people really need. Instead, Splendid Bacon cuts through the fat and presents users with a bare bones dashboard and integrated timelines that make it easy to see an overview of everything that’s going on in a company at any given time.

If you prefer using web-apps with bright, friendly colors, then Splendid Bacon probably isn’t for you. Purposefully designed with a dark color scheme, Splendid Bacon foregoes the niceties and gets right to the point. From the dashboard page, you can see each project your company is currently working on. Each project box shows the current status, latest activity, and a countdown to when the project is due. You can see what each employee is working on from this main page, as well. Click on the name of a project that you’d like to see more about to review the activity log with all the latest status updates from team members. If you’ve got an update of your own, you can post it right there on the project page.

If you prefer to see projects laid out in a more visual way, then click on the “Timeline” feature to see all of your company’s projects organized in a calendar-like format. For small businesses that could do without all the frills typically associated with some of the more robust project management applications, Splendid Bacon could be the perfect solution. Not only is the application powerful and effective, but it is completely free to use.

Practical Uses:

  • Find out when employees have fallen behind on a specific project
  • Let your colleagues know when you’re taking over a new task
  • Work from home while still communicating with the rest of the people in the office
  • Save time by reviewing the progress of various projects online, without having to email employees for updates

Insider Tips:

  • Change the projected completion date of a project at any time
  • Each employee at your company should have his own logins
  • Add multiple organizations to a single account
  • Cancel your account at any time if you’re unhappy with the product

What we liked:

  • Splendid Bacon is free to use
  • Creating a new account takes less than 30 seconds
  • Timeline feature makes it easy to visualize when each project is due
  • Ability to see the status of each project from one main dashboard

What we didn’t like:

  • Both the name of the application and the general color scheme and layout may not be “professional” enough for some larger corporations to use

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Company Info:

  • Launched: October 2010
  • Privately Held
  • Headquarters: Helsinki, Finland
  • Founded by: Kisko Labs
  • Web site: http://splendidbacon.com

Costs:

  • Free

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