Kickoff - collaborate on projects

Remote work on joint projects often brings some difficulties, for example, are not always unable to effectively communicate with each other, solve the questions and see the results of the joint activity. If your whole team in the use of Apple products through the application Kickoff you will be able to raise team work to a new level.
Regardless of the profile of your business, whether it be graphic design, website, application, Kickoff no doubt have a positive impact on the efficiency of your work.

In general terms, in this application provides all the necessary tools to work together a small group. Let's take a closer look at the possibility of Kickoff.

When you first launch the application prompts you to create a new account or sign in if you already have. Then you can start your first project. The interface is very simple and intuitive, time trying to understand the practical application is not required. On the sidebar are the main tools for the job, it The Dashboard, Chat, Notes, Tasks, Files and Colleagues.

In the first tab, Dashboard will store the entire history of working on your project, all changes that are made by other contributors. It is very convenient, because you can always view the progress of the project.

Meeting Room - that's how easy it is to guess chat. In addition to the collective discussion of global issues of the project, you can always be a need to discuss specific targets with one of the participants of the project, keeping the rest of the work, so developers should consider as a private, and group chat. Supports the function of sending messages group members that are not in the network, so you can be sure that messages are not lost.

The next group of instruments refers specifically to the project. Notes allow you to share ideas with colleagues, drafts and other textual information. inset Todos It contains a list of planned work. It is very convenient that a certain task can be assigned a specific participant of the project, and, if necessary, you can specify the date by which the task must be completed. It should be noted the convenience of this approach to the list of tasks, because each participant can view exactly which goals are in front of him, without being distracted by a list of the tasks set by the other participants.

With point Files everything is clear, in this tab contains all the files that have accumulated during use. Downloaded files are available for all participants. There is support for versions.

In the last tab Coworkers contains information on all members of your team. It is possible to view the data in the Address Book, the participant, the participant will send E-mail, as well as view a history of the project, a list of tasks assigned to him, and added them to the files.

The reliability of data storage in the application is not in doubt. Kickoff It uses Amazon S3, and the security of the service, as is well known, trusted by such giants as DropBox, Twitter and Ubuntu One.

Kickoff It offers two tariff plans depending on the number of members of your team. Freelance tariff plan allows you to work in a team of up to 4 people at a cost of $ 28.8 per month, and the tariff plan Team allows work groups of up to 15 people and has been around $ 71.8 per month of work. In addition to the number of participants, no differences in the rate plans do not. The number of projects and the size of the file is not limited. If I have correctly understood the information on the developer's site, pay for the use of the service must be only one member of the group. Only those who have paid a subscription, can create new projects. monthly fee cost may seem high enough, but it is only at first glance. All project work is concentrated in one place, so that productivity is greatly improved, and this has a direct impact on the financial success of the team. Of course, this application will be important only to those who constantly has a stable number of projects in development, and not from time to time receives orders.

For those who want to try the application to work in the case, on the developer's site has a 15-day trial version with limited to conduct only two projects at the same time.

Download trial version: Kickoff trial
Price: $ 28.8 - $ 71.8 per month
website Developer: Kickoff
System requirements: Mac OS X 10.6 and above