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Backlog and Cacoo are built to empower developers, designers, and marketers to collaborate more effectively. Both platforms centralize workflows, enhance transparency, and provide a venue for teams to work together on their most important tasks.

Backlog, our project management tool, comes with a variety of tools to boost collaboration, from project wikis to powerful file management systems that keep teams organized. By adopting Backlog, developers, designers, and marketers can bring more structure and accountability to complex projects.

Cacoo is an online diagramming tool that serves as a canvas for teams to collaborate on creative and technical projects. Developers use Cacoo for tasks including mapping out network architecture and building user journeys, whereas designers and marketers can use Cacoo to build wireframes, visualize marketing campaigns, and more. Regardless of how your team uses Cacoo, they’ll love the powerful collaboration features, including multi-user editing, live chat, video calling, version history, and more.

Both Backlog and Cacoo offer a wide range of tools to support remote and hybrid teams. Some of Backlog’s most popular collaboration features include:

• Project management frameworks: With popular project management frameworks, including Gantt charts, burndown charts, and Kanban boards, Backlog makes it easy for remote teams to stay aligned on their projects.
• Comments and notifications: Users can add comments to individual Backlog issues and tag their teammates for review to start a conversation or share feedback. Users receive targeted notifications that ensure they’re always up to date on their tasks.
• Task assignments: Use Backlog to assign work to different team members, manage deadlines, and understand project dependencies. When users complete tasks, they can re-assign them to the relevant person, promoting transparency and ensuring projects continue progressing.

On Cacoo, remote and hybrid teams particularly value features including:

• Multi-user editing: Several team members can work together on Cacoo diagrams in real time, with a live cursor view showing the area of the diagram where each team member is currently working.
• Communication tools: Team members can exchange comments, share ideas in a real-time chat feed, or start a video call directly from their Cacoo diagram to discuss more complex issues.
• Sharing tools: Cacoo makes it easy to share your work with anyone. Users can add team members to Cacoo diagrams, create shareable links, or embed Cacoo diagrams in any web property. There’s also the ability to enter presentation mode and export diagrams in various formats.

Cacoo is the perfect solution for remote teams that need to brainstorm and plan their work together in real time. The best place to start is the Cacoo Template Library, where you’ll find dozens of pre-configured diagrams and mind map templates.

Once you’ve found the best option for your team’s tasks, the next step is to start working together in Cacoo. Everyone can work together on the same diagram, with live, color-coded cursors indicating what each team member is working on.

Teams can use Cacoo’s communication tools as they create diagrams and mind maps, like using the built-in chat thread to share ideas, adding comments to specific elements of the diagram, or starting a video call to dive deeper into important issues.

When it’s time to share their work, teams can use Cacoo’s built-in presentation mode to bring their designs to life. Alternatively, diagrams and mind maps can be shared via link or email or can be embedded into external web pages such as company wikis or intranet pages.

Yes. Backlog provides users with several ways to track their contributions. One option is to opt in to Backlog’s weekly email summaries. These emails are sent out each Monday and summarize the number of assigned tasks the user completed the previous week plus the number of stars their teammates awarded them.

These emails also contain a graph that tracks the number of completed tasks and stars received over the previous three weeks, helping individual team members understand how their productivity trends over time.

Cacoo comes with a rich set of features specifically designed for the needs of design teams. They include:

• Communication tools: Teams can use Cacoo to communicate either in real-time or asynchronously, with live chat and video calling, plus the ability to add comments and tag colleagues for review.
• Version history: Cacoo’s version history tool allows teams to understand how their designs have evolved. Users can view previous iterations of their design and see when changes were made and by whom.
• Integrations: Cacoo integrates with a variety of design and communication tools your team already uses, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Visio, and Adobe Creative Cloud. These integrations allow design teams to incorporate Cacoo into existing workflows seamlessly.
• Templates: With dozens of pre-built templates, Cacoo makes it easy for designers to get their projects off to a fast start and spend their creative energies collaborating on the small details that make a big difference.

Backlog’s project management tools level up your team’s productivity and performance by allowing them to spend less time managing work and more time doing work. By streamlining communication, file sharing, and project management processes, Backlog frees team members to dedicate more time to high-impact tasks.

The platform's project management tools are perfectly suited to managing a variety of deliverables, mapping project dependencies, and understanding progress toward important project milestones. Project managers can identify bottlenecks and proactively manage workloads, ensuring their team has all the support they need to achieve performance targets.

Yes. Cacoo offers a selection of collaboration tools that inspire creativity and strengthen communication between team members. These include:

• Simple drag-and-drop interface: Cacoo is renowned for its ease of use, with an intuitive drag-and-drop user experience that’s easy for new users to learn yet powerful enough to build game-changing designs.
• Live and asynchronous feedback tools: With Cacoo, your team can communicate however suits them best, whether in real-time through chat threads and in-app video calling or through asynchronous methods, including comments and sticky notes. Team members receive notifications when input is needed, shortening feedback cycles and accelerating progress.
• Template library: Cacoo comes with dozens of templates that can be used as the foundation for projects, helping team members spend less time building the basics and more time thinking creatively.
• Import and export capabilities: Import custom assets from external design platforms into Cacoo, from your business’s branding to technical drawings. When you’re finished creating, you can share, export, or print your Cacoo diagram in just a few clicks.

Backlog provides team leaders with a global view of all of their team’s projects, plus the tools they need to monitor and guide progress. Simple visual frameworks like Kanban boards make it easy for team leaders to understand the status of different tasks and milestones while also making it clear who is assigned to each project.

Adopting Backlog improves team communications, strengthening collaboration and removing redundancies. Team leaders can view each team member’s workload, identify bottlenecks, and proactively resolve issues before they bring progress to a halt.

Backlog and Cacoo are both cloud-based platforms that can be accessed from anywhere. Today, the vast majority of every team’s work is done online – whether it’s in the office or remotely. Together, Backlog and Cacoo provide a consistent approach that’s well-suited to the needs of every digital team, enabling creative professionals to work better together both in real time and asynchronously.

Absolutely. Cacoo and Backlog integrate with many of the enterprise software applications your team already uses daily, ensuring that both tools slot seamlessly into your team’s existing workflows.

Popular integration categories include:

• Communication platforms: Activating integrations with platforms, including Slack and Microsoft Teams, delivers notifications to team members whenever there’s an important update.
• Cloud storage providers: Import and export files to every major cloud storage platform, including Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, and more.
• Development tools: Import data from platforms including Jira, Redmine, and Jenkins to better manage your team’s code.
• Design tools: Import designs from platforms, including Adobe Creative Cloud and Visio, to include existing design assets in your Cacoo diagrams.

View a complete list of supported integrations, plus installation instructions, for both Cacoo and Backlog on our integrations page.