Team project software: create collaborative environment for sharing team project ideas and assignments

The definition: it is just any project which has more than one participant. That software is a computer-based system supporting and promoting activities of the workgroup to help them in collaboration at common tasks, in communication between teammates and coordination their efforts. Actually team project software should give the manager a centralized position to supervise and direct actions taken towards goals. Such a program should have all necessary functions to drive all elements of a plan which outlines how the whole works. Let’s consider this functionality with a help of specific example of software called VIP Task Manager (it allows you to plan and control activites and tasks):

• Structure – every project is a mechanism of interrelated elements making the whole work performed, having tools and methods to get the process administered, maintained and controlled. To drive any project from its beginning to completion you need to have good team project plan including work breakdown structure. VIP Task Manager is software that features Task Tree view enabling you to create WBS (a tree-like structure) of tasks and task groups representing your project stages, phases, departmental duties, etc.

• Roles – all persons engaged into the project should be assigned to appropriate roles expressing their responsibilities and tasks. There are always certain team project rules making these roles interrelated through system of formal seniority and managerial hierarchy. Of course that software should support these rules. VIP Task Manager makes it easy to assign roles to project team members and plan their responsibilities along with controlling them in real-time. 

• Report – it is all about  collection of relative data for identifying project progress, its quantitative and qualitative metrics. For this purpose team project software should provide certain informational channels that enable delivering data between different levels of managerial hierarchy (for example between employees and supervisors). VIP Task Manager is a solution using client-server technology to deliver and share reports in real-time. This program features quite powerful  set of easy-to-use instruments which help in planning and reporting information. For example you can customize and share  template and user interface settings to improve your approaches and meet specific needs.