Software Tools for Project Manager

What Is Project Management?

Project management is a planned and organized endeavor to accomplish a specific goal, for example, creating a product or service. The project is usually one-time and finite in contrast to everyday operational work. Project management follows the standard stages: feasibility assessment; project goals definition; creating a detailed action plan; everyday monitoring of the workflow; project completion and delivery; closing down the project.

Project Manager's Responsibilities

Project manager is the person accountable for the project accomplishment and achieving the project goal. The main project manager's duties are:

• Defining clear and reachable project objectives
• Setting the project requirements
• Making a detailed action plan composed of manageable tasks
• Building (and sometimes hiring) a team or teams
• Daily monitoring of the work and applying corrective action when necessary
• Reporting the project progress to the sponsor or senior management
• Pre-delivery project evaluating
• Closing down the project after the delivery

So, project manager is a very demanding and responsible position. Project manager should control human, time and physical resources, organize effective teamwork, keep an eye on the project progress and make reports to the superiors.

Project Manager's Software

Let's see what software tools can help a project manager cope with the job. Project manager needs to define project goals and reduce them to a list of tasks. Task management software is an important project manager's tool.

Project manager has to delegate duties to team members, assign tasks and create a schedule of works. So, scheduling is the next demand.

Establishing effective collaboration within each team and between teams is very important for successful and timely project accomplishment. So, project manager's software should include team management functionality.

Project manager have to be in control of the workflow. It's important to see the statuses of the tasks and re-assign them if necessary, see what tasks are finished, what are in process and what are unbegun.

Multi-user project manager's tool can have additional benefits. When many people are involved in the project, it could be useful to give some of them (for example, team leaders) access to project manager's tool. Naturally, the users should have different roles and permissions.

Project management often requires considerable documents circulation. Project manager's software can include document management functionality and be used to store and share electronic documents and images of paper documents.

VIP Project Manager's Software

VIP Task Manager is a multifunctional project manager's tool which could be used both individually and in multiuser mode. It combines the most important for project manager features: time and task management, scheduling, document management, resources and team management, advanced notification and alert system. VIP Task Manager helps project manager organize teamwork, manage human, physical and time resources and track the work progress.