You have places that do this for you

Jira might be a good option. It’s pretty decent for AGILE and you could shoe horn marketing in as sprints.

Asana, Trello, Notion…

Our dev team uses Jira to track bugs and Quire for overall progress. There are also many other options out there.

Excel sheets are good if you’re just doing it for the sake of it, if you need a hyper tracking process, clickup, notion, trello are good… we personally leverage all these

I’d recommend all of the same apps everyone else mentioned, but I’ll also add Linear. I used it on my last small project and really liked it.

Honestly though, I don’t think it matters too much what you pick from how you’re describing your use case. If you’re just doing it to assign and keep a log of the work you’ve been doing, you could even just use Google docs or wherever you’re currently taking notes.

The point should be to find a process that you can be consistent with, and often that’s just working inside the tools you’re already using.

However, if your looking for more visual accounting of work share & tracking your progress over time, the tools like Jira, notion, Linear, etc. would be useful

I absolutely fell in love with Notion. As someone that grew up with technology my whole life and appreciates good UI/UX it did pretty much everything I wanted it to do in terms of organization.

We had a homebase, documentation (onboarding, deboarding, etc.), highly organized meeting notes, customer details, and more.

If I could work for Notion I would, they helped a ton

Hi there, I led growth and brand at my last startup and we used a simple Google Sheet to track all of our changes. We did this to centralize our learnings across product, customer service and marketing so that we had a really simple log of all changes (you could use other tools, but GSheets worked well for us).

The most important advice I’d give you would be to think about everything as an experiment. Writing down why you’re doing what you’re doing, what you expect to happen, and what actually happened are important.

We used the following columns. Each ‘owner’ of an experiment was responsible for filling out the experiment and the results of each experiment.

• Experiment - Describe the experiment, feature, or change to the customer experience (example: Run Meta advertising using themes of shareholder advocacy issues our customers care about, like CEO pay)
• Hypothesis - What do you expect will happen as a result of implementing this change? Use ‘IF’ and ‘THEN’ to frame your statement. (example: Example: IF we speak to people’s frustration with the issues that shareholder advocacy can address THEN they will be motivated to sign up to the beta relase)
• Metrics - What will you measure to know if your experiment is successful? (example: Thumbstop ratio, CTR, conversion rate)
• Date live - When did you set the experiment live?
• Duration - How long will the experiment run for?
• Results - What happened? Use the metrics you defined in ‘metrics’
• Decision - What will you do as a result of this experiment? (Example: Use same message - advocate against CEO pay raise in more / different formats)

Hope this helps!

I have been running a 5th startup myself for 9 months and I concluded: for a tech startup it’s enough to run a tracking system designed well for development like Trello, Linear, Jira, etc (as a tech founder I believe you should already know what’s better to use). I used Linear and it covered all my needs. For everything else would be enough to use Google Documents, Sheets, Notion.

Sounds like you can use a project manager?

Notion will be enough.

The main thing is to use tools everyone will actually use. One of the main issues with projects is that the lowest common denominator is email. And stuff gets lost that way. I’ve run projects in a Google Doc before.

So I’d talk to your team members and discuss options with them.

There are many way to track docs and manage content internally. This is what our business specializes in. Check us out at www.spruceivory.com and if you are interested in more info don’t hesitate to reach out.

Start simple. If you’re co-located, literally post-its on a wall. You can do it digitally in Miro.

If you want something structured (probably worth it) I’d start with Trello for task tracking and visibility - use a really simple board set-up (Kanban or similar). And google docs/drive for documenting. Until you’ve started doing it you won’t know which bits of tools and processes are useful for you.

Things like Jira/Notion/Monday/Airtable etc are all great but can take a while to set up and get working.

Quick question - as a tech founder have you worked in agile dev teams? Or are you new to it all?

I like Google sheets for most things and Asana for to-do items. Daily standups to give quick updates and discuss blockers, weekly meetings to set goals and to discuss progress towards last week’s goals. Monthly reviews or team offsites to have longer, engage in more strategic discussions and set longer term goals.