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 is that people can get their tasks, projects, schedules and working plans shared for a group access. Regime of colleborative tasks is necessary for coordinating team collaboration at common projects – users can access one database through their interface and participate in planning, tracking and reporting of activities.

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

The point is providing project team with special means for fast, paperless and easy job tracking and collaboration. In other words 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 launch the software 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 tracking.

VIP Task Manager is a good example of shared task management software . This software can work within corporate LAN and Internet, with wide capabilities for job 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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