What are the project tools?

Answer 1

Project tool, or project management tools, are software programs that support project managers and teams in the different tasks related to planning, managing, and budgeting projects. The main goal of project management tools is to make it easier to manage projects by increasing transparency. It helps to provide access to the most up to date information on tasks, progress and key figures to everyone involved, ensuring that they can best fulfill their project related responsibilities.

There is a great variety of tools available in the market that offer different feature ranges and support various project management methodologies. You can choose between on-premise solutions (desktop programs that are locally installed on your hardware) and web-based applications that are accessed via the browser.

Some of the more complex project tools offer combined solutions, supporting classic project management approaches as well as agile methods. One of them being InLoox, which we use in our company because it allows us to use the same tool in every department across the entire organization.

A comprehensive project management tool includes the following features:

- Task management

- Project scheduling (ideally with Gantt chart)

- Time tracking

- Document management

- Resource management

- Budget planning and controlling

- Project reporting

Full-featured project tools are:

- AtTask, web-based

- Hitask, web-based

- InLoox, web-based and on-premise

- Microsoft Project, on-premise

- Wrike, web-based