Project Management Tools

Vidumini Bandara
4 min readMar 5, 2022

This article focuses on offering some information regarding project management software that can help you manage your projects more efficiently.

What is a Project Management Tool?

Project management tools are a collection of software developed to assist project teams in planning, tracking, and managing projects in order to meet established project goals on time. It also enables team members to work together more efficiently and to complete projects faster in order to fulfill the deadlines.

Benefits of using project management tools…

  • Planning is simple and quick.
  • Collaboration runs smoothly.
  • Keep your spending under control.
  • Monitoring the Project Continually.
  • Resource allocation and management are easy.
  • Data sharing is effortless.

A few of the Project Management tools are listed here with a brief description,

MS project

Microsoft Project is a project management software product developed and marketed by Microsoft. This is designed to assist a project manager in schedule development, monitoring progress, assigning resources to tasks, analysis of workload, and budget management. The project budget is based on assignment work and resource ratios. Resource definitions are shared
between projects by using a shared resource pool. Each resource can keep its own calendar, which defines the resource availability dates and transfers. Every resource can be assigned to multiple tasks for different purposes, each task can be assigned different resources, and application tasks are performed based on the availability of resources as mentioned in the resource calendars.

Trello

Trello is a Kanban-style listing application based on Atlassian affiliate websites. It was heavily developed by Fog Creek Software in 2011. Using this software, users can make their own dashboards from different columns and move tasks between them. Columns usually include tasks that need to be done, progressed, and performed. The tool is used for business and personal
purposes such as real estate management, school billboards, software project management, web design, lesson planning, law office event management, gambling, and accounting.

ClickUp

ClickUp is a free, online project management software product that is mostly used by people. It includes forms, notepads, Gantt charts, dashboards, time tracking, sprint, mind maps, recurring tasks, reporting, etc. As some of the features. This software also targeted developing schedules, monitoring progress, assigning resources to tasks, analysis of workload, and budget management.

Freedcamp

Freedcamp stands out among other project management tools by making it accessible all with its functionality which was published in 2010. This Freedcamp is free for an unlimited number of files and projects of many users. It provides task lists, calendars, Kanban boards, set milestones, and tracking time spent on tasks, issues, and scheduling.

Organizations can indeed maximize the execution of their development teams by making use of the benefits and services that project management tools provide. These tools can improve the entire workflow, increase developer productivity, and allow the application to be launched in less time, resulting in increased profitability.

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Vidumini Bandara

Software Quality Assurance Engineer | Undergraduate | Faculty of Information technology, University of Moratuwa | Intern — Software Engineer | Josephian