AgileSlateis a very user-friendly system for using just email to managing group projects of any kind.
There are contexts where project groups do not have access to collaborative project management tools or do not have the skills or patience for available tools. AgileSlate is an approach that leverages most people's natural skill and patience capacities. And it enables groups to easily manage agile projects. Here's how it works. Someone on the core team for the project opens a new Gmail account. Ideally, the user name reflects the project name for easy recognition and the password is also easy to remember and somehow related to the project. The account originator then emails everyone on the project with the group's Gmail account name and password. This person also starts four Google Documents that everyone can access in the Docs section of this email account. The four documents are named: Wish listIssues list
Resources list
Sprint lists After the team develops the first versions of each list, someone posts each list in their respective document. Then, when everyone on the team is ready to add updates to any of the lists, they sign into the email account, open the document for that list, and update the list. If anyone has files related to the project - other documents, photos, videos, and so on - they can send them directly to project email from their personal email. The project account originator or someone else designated can keep these emailed files organized in easy to access folders within the project email account. This simple use of a simple tool then allows everyone to be able to update and access the status of everything on the project, reducing unnecessary meetings and time spent trying to keep project emails organized.
