Personal task list vs. Group task list

What is a personal task list?
A personal task list is a list of scheduled tasks and jobs assigned to a person. Personal task lists can be created and managed by means of task management software. Each element or item in personal task list is a task entry that has some necessary attributes, including Name, Due Date, Priority, Status, Progress and ID. These attributes are sufficient for scheduling and performing tasks in personal task lists. Depending on functionality and capabilities of task management software, personal task lists may also have user-defined or custom fields for advanced task management. For example, you can add such custom fields as Costs, Budget and Balance to your personal task list to calculate an amount of money you spend on your tasks.

Personal task lists are convenient to manage your daily activities, including office jobs and home chores. You can apply task management software to creating family task lists as well as office job lists. Each member of your family may have a family task list in which chores like House cleaning, Lawn watering, and Diner preparing are listed.

What is a group task list?
A group task list is a list of scheduled tasks and jobs assigned to a group of employees (a team). Group task lists may have all the features and attributes of personal task lists. However, group collaboration is particular to management of group task lists, so such task lists are more complex and have some additional attributes and features. Group task lists refer to team assignments and characterize tasks and jobs to be accomplished within teamwork. Often project work consists of a number of collaborative task lists in which assignments, duties, roles and responsibilities of each project resource are included. The following attributes are particular to team task lists:

• Owner is vital for group collaboration as it shows who assigns a task. Often project manager plays the role of task owner.
• Assignment shows which team members are assigned to tasks.
• Folder shows a task's place in the project hierarchy.
• Department/Project Group shows to which department or project team an employee belongs.

Solution for managing both personal and group task lists
VIP Task Manager is a multi-user task management software solution for group collaboration and team management. The software allows creating, assigning, tracking and reporting both personal and employee task lists. It supports task list sharing functionality and uses a client-server technology to let you keep all information about tasks in a centralized database and access the database over a network.

VIP Task Manager allows designing and duplicating employee task list templates to simplify task management. You can design and keep your employee task list templates in a local or remote database and define user permission settings to restrict access to the templates.

VIP Task Manager has some task list options similar to Groupwise task list software. In particular, you can email tasks, document tasks, and use Calendar view to schedule both personal and employee task lists. No mater whether you are a user of Groupwise task list software or not, you may get a trial copy of VIP Task Manager for free by downloading it from this website.