Most companies today solve their non-trivial task by creating project teams and delegating responsibility and a budget to project leaders and team members. This is working well in some cases but sometimes (quite often) it fails and projects go over time and budget. There are many excuses and possible reasons why the expectations are not meet but impact on the business can be significant if strategic projects fail to deliver. I have been involved in project work most of my career and have seen tools like MS Excel, MS Project, simple disk shares etc. having a dominating role over and over again. It’s not that I think these tools are seriously bad but they fail in some important areas – areas that are essential for projects to be be effective. In order to be constantly effective team members must be able to locate and possibly update documents, plans, etc. see their task and provide status, take notes and share ideas, decisions and actions. There are alternatives today and this post provides a list of 35 online tools that may significantly improve your Project Management and Team Collaboration if used wisely.
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