How project management software can help you stay organized

Key quotes:

• "Ideally, this solution should help to set and manage tasks, assign responsibilities, track progress and statuses, visualize processes, prioritize and share the results with a customer."
• "Choosing the best service for your projects, you should test several options, being sure to examine the features of task and time management, opportunities for teamwork and remote collaboration, building online diagrams, reporting and other important needs of your company."
• "Breeze is based on Agile and Lean principles and its key following are to-do lists, project budgeting, reporting, time tracking, calendars, Android, and iOS support, integrations with Google Drive and Dropbox, etc."
• "Kanbanchi will perfectly assist you is you need task management and collaboration software with Kanban boards, Gantt Charts, and time tracking options."
• "Developers, project managers, designers, and other Agile methodology practitioners choose Taiga as it offers great project collaboration, task management, bug tracking, reporting, and time tracking solutions."
• "Paymo solution gives you full-featured work management tools for planning, scheduling, task managing, invoicing, and time tracking."

Transcript: Hey hello this is Nicholas sencillo and Sarah garden of logical outcomes the Canadian nonprofit and today we're going to be talking about how logical outcomes uses one note to manage projects so do you want to get started showing us of the reasons why for where for sure so why we would use it um a couple things I'll show you in the hello I'm Sarah um so to use one note because it's a Microsoft product and it's integrated nicely with other Microsoft products you need a Microsoft account so it's a it's a quick and easy thing to do all you have to do is you can just google get a Microsoft account choose an email address that you already have and use that account to download and register OneNote so these are the two things you need to do to get started it's free pretty easy um now it's it's PC community basically Mac or PC yeah I have a Mac and I found Nikolas the Mac versions not as handy so something to be aware of if you're on PC you're gonna get the full functionality but Mac not not so much okay so it... See more →

Key quotes:

• "While advanced task or project management software might help you to a certain extent, to manage non-project activities like attending conferences or answering emails you’ll need to consider a more versatile solution: work management software."
• "Work management software is a digital tool that allows you to plan, track, organize, and review both projects and non-project tasks with the goal of improving your business results and team performance."
• "On a general level, choosing work management software in favour of a specific tool, let’s say a task management or time tracking one, will improve how you tackle your tasks and help you meet your client requirements whether these are related to tasks, projects, time, costs, or anything else."
• "If you only need to work on a couple of non-project tasks and record your work hours, a task management tool with time tracking functions or integrations could be sufficient."
• "As an individual, you’ll only need a simple tool to help you sort your tasks, track your time, and send out invoices regularly."

Key quotes:

• "This shows just how much importance people place on doing task management right."
• "This is exactly why I built this guide in the first place: to help you balance your work with minimal effort via task management software."
• "This method as a whole refers to: Task management is not something you do only at work."
• "This shows just how important task management is for employers when it comes to achieving results and working effectively."
• "That’s why keeping all your tasks grouped after their urgency or importance also helps you set clear priorities."
• "When it comes to managing tasks at a team level, it’s all a bit different."

Key quotes:

• "In the best of times, project management requires tracking down absent deliverables, analyzing data to predict when things will be done, and communicating information to stakeholders so they don’t make your life miserable with aggressive update requests."
• "Workflow tools help you track tasks and projects as they move through various stages of your process."
• "Designed by mechanical engineer Henry Gantt in 1910, the Gantt chart has had a relatively long run as a project management tool."
• "While a Kanban board like Trello is best used at the task level, Gantt charts are better equipped for managing at a zoomed-out, project level."
• "If you’ve renounced in-house gigs in favor of the freelance life, time tracking and invoicing are two features you’re going to need in your project management system — unless you can convince all of your clients to pay you at their own leisure."
• "Basecamp Consequently, several of the best project management tools have focused on team collaboration, with Basecamp chief among them."

Key quotes:

• "Clarizen’s cloud-based PPM project management tools are the solution to managing numerous projects simultaneously, providing the visibility, scalability and organizational project portfolio management capabilities necessary to track and manage multiple projects at once."
• "First and foremost, project portfolio management provides transparency, so that project managers can easily view progress and implement changes in real time."
• "This is important to understand because not all project management software is created equally, and you want to make sure you end up with a product like Clarizen’s PPM solution that will meet all of your needs."
• "Increase your business agility with Clarizen’s project management software Take a Product Tour How Can PPM Tools Simplify Operations? Features and functionality are key, and you should seek software solutions that not only allow you to effectively allocate and manage resources, but also track, monitor and adjust your entire portfolio of projects in real-time, as well as organize projects and tasks based on priority, strategy and overall objectives."
• "Fortunately, Clarizen has the PPM software solutions you need to make every project and overall operations run more smoothly, saving time and ensuring success in all endeavors."