3 Effective Ways of Enterprise Task Management

by Jay D. Project Management Software

Task Management has come a long way since the days of simple to do lists, excel sheets and notepad checklists.

As teams continue to deliver their best work and move their organizations to the top in their segments, they increasingly rely on highly visual work management processes and tools.

Being effective, productive and highly efficient is a must have and non-negotiable.

We just cannot survive without being at least one or all of the above.

Project Management tools with highly robust and interactive task management come to our rescue.

But! But! But!

There are tons of enterprise project management software to pick from. Plus we have teams that are highly integrated yet unique in the work they do. So one size or work management type doesn’t help.

Enterprises have a mix of produce development, engineering, customer support, marketing, sales, HR teams and more.

Each of them has their unique style of working and project requirements to get their work accomplished.

All of these add quite a load on enterprises to ensure all of its employees have the right productivity tools they need to perform their best.

Quiet complex isn’t it and do add the cost factor into the above mix.

Few must haves for enterprise project management tools

First and foremost an enterprise collaboration software must accommodate specific needs of the team and scale with the team.

And as we know from experience enterprise project management must be supported by

Well defined task management system
Tasks with clear assignments, due dates, estimated hours
Time tracking for transparent planned vs actual hours
Highlight overdue tasks
Allow for custom task types and tagging for better task classification
Ability to setup custom task reminders
Resource availability, resource utilization and leave plans for improved task allocation
Send out alerts and notifications upon task progress, status updates and more
Holistic reports around task trends w.r.t resolution, priority, age etc.
Gantt Charts, Kanban and Scrum boards

So look for a tool that provides all of the above and all or any combination of the below task management styles.

Gantt Charts, Kanban Boards & Scrum Boards are the need of the day.
Each of these has their own purpose and value that they bring to the operational excellence table.
Gantt Charts
Gantt chart is a great project scheduling tool.
They clearly help align the team w.r.t the project’s timelines and delivery dates with all interlinking displayed on a single chart.
Gantt Charts are visual, instantly show when tasks are due and how changes to the tasks reflect upon their dependent tasks.
All the more crucial for complex and large projects involving multiple teams.
Basically, they help identify possible delays and enable proactive measures in a timely manner.

To summarize Gantt Charts offer:

• Visual project and task planning
• Straight forward scheduling
• Well-defined task inter-dependencies and task linking
• Teams know how the status of their task queue impacts the overall project and its outcome
• Know who is doing what and whom to connect when needed

Gantt Charts are a must for enterprise program managers, project managers, team managers, PMO and of course the clients to get a good hang of the project progress, issues and associated delays so that they know when to step in.

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