Shared task manager – collaborative solution for planning and sharing tasks in workgroup

Shared task manager is a computer-based tool which shows all its benefits in the regime of concurrent multi-user collaboration. The idea of shared task manager (desktop or online shared task management tool) is that people can get their tasks, projects, schedules and working plans shared for a group access. Regime of shared tasks is necessary for coordinating team collaboration at common projects – users can access one database through their shared task manager interface and participate in planning, tracking and reporting of activities.

This kind of collaboration – when one group of people (managers) assigns shared tasks to another group (employees, performers), and they can see assigned workloads and report about their performance – is called shared task management and it is widely used in many organizations. But what the shared task management actually means?

The point of shared task management is providing project team with special means for fast, paperless and easy shared task tracking and collaboration. In other words shared task tracking is facilitated and enhanced process when managers don't need any paper reports from their subordinates as well as there is no need to worry about doing any paper work for keeping project progress records in ordered and up-to-date state – all this waste of time and energy is avoided through desktop or online shared task manager that takes care of these functions. It is enough for supervisors just to start shared task manager on their computers to know what is going on within their teams – what statuses the shared tasks currently have, what tasks are procrastinated, which area of work is going according to plan, and which area of work faces problems and requires urgent help – all this and much more can be managed with a help of shared task tracking.

VIP Task Manager is a good example of shared task management software. This software can work within corporate LAN and Internet as online shared task manager with wide capabilities for shared task tracking and management. This software is client-server, so it is necessary to install client components of this tool on computers of your teammates and server component on your server, then connection between them should be established. This shared task manager is easy-to-install, so it can be deployed over your LAN just in minutes. When installation is finished, users can start planning and sharing their tasks according to their workgroup roles.

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