Whether you have your own home-based business or work for a company as team leader or manager, it’s crucial to keep things organized. That’s exactly where project management comes into play. There are a wide range of online tools that you can use to keep your projects on the right track. By managing projects in an efficient way, you’ll be able to reduce job stress, hit milestones, stand yourself out quickly and deliver much better results.
But do you know about those tools that allow you to manage work projects of any size easily and effectively?
Here are some of the most popular tools for managing projects –
Asana
This is one of the best tools for project or task management. If you work with a group of people, Asana provides you with all the features that make project management easy and fun. With this tool by your side, you can easily organize your efforts, put all the tasks together in one place and always remain on the top of the necessary details of a work project.
Asana does an excellent job of making your team accountable so that they are able to deliver better and achieve the desired goals. The best part about this online tool is that it’s free unless you have a team of 15 or more people.
Basecamp
An entire project on one page – this is what Basecamp is popularly known for. Thousands of professionals, home-based business owners, and companies use this online tool to organize projects, data, and people. No matter how many people you have working on a project, Basecamp is quite easy to use. With Basecamp in your toolkit, you can also connect with your colleagues and clients in real time. Since Basecamp is also available on iPhone, it allows you to have access to your projects while on the go.
Basecamp has a successful track record of helping professionals successfully manage work projects for around 10 years.
Evernote
Whether you are an individual or a business, Evernote is quite effective at making life easier and smarter. Some of the most noticeable features of this online task management tool include offline notebook, better collaboration, smarter searching and attractive notes presentation. Business-owners can use Evernote to centralize their company’s knowledge and create a smarter workplace where every member of the team can easily share and discover knowledge.
Nimble
Relationship building is crucial in today’s competitive business environment. Nimble, a popular task management tool, allows you to keep in regular touch with your contacts thereby helping you to build relationships. On one single screen, Nimble provides you with core information of contacts including their emails, activities and social conversations.
In short, Nimble helps you retain the right customers by effectively connecting with them, listening to them and engaging them.
Teambox
If you are looking for another great tool to manage tasks, share files and communicate, Teambox is just the right choice. With this online tool, you can easily schedule tasks, track time, keep an eye on task progress and share documents with one another. The HD video conferencing feature of Teambox helps you communicate with your team in real time.
You have the opportunity to get started with this task management tool right away, as it comes free for up to 5 users.
Google Docs
How can you forget about this tool? Google Docs is among the most popular and most used team project management tools across the web, available to people for free. Whether you want to create and share excel sheets, documents or presentations, you can do it all with complete ease while using Google Docs. All you need to access this online tool for task management is a Google account which you might have already.
What other tools do you use to manage your work projects and collaborate with your team or colleagues? Please comment.
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Good list of tools and apps for managing the work projects in all possible manner.