What You Should Know About Task Managing
For a successful project you need two things: A good idea and a good task manager. A good task manager enables you to keep track of all important project parts. Today’s projects are multi user projects. This means that multiple users are working on different project parts and after everything’s done, it’s all put together. But how to manage and organize your project and users? What should you take care of?
Divide your project into smaller parts. All actions should be easy understandable and clearly defined. It’s important that your project will be finished within the estimated time range, so mistakes because of a vague task description should be avoided.
Set task priorities. Users often start with the easier parts of a project than the difficult ones. But this is not a good way of getting things done. Mostly further tasks are based on already finished tasks. Therefore tasks should get a priority to ensure that everything is done in the right order.
Set deadlines. When you set deadlines, everyone knows about the project’s timetable. Without fixed deadlines, it’s very easy to move a task to the next day, which rises a project’s lifetime enormously.
Categorize your tasks. Define your own categories like New Feature, Error, To Test etc. This helps everyone to understand what needs to be done.
Track progress. This ensures that done tasks are not re-done by others. Additionally a finished task gives you a good feeling. You will “feel” the progress of the project. Every time you look on the things that are already done, you will get an additional boost of motivation.
Work together. Project work means working with other people. So you need a very good communication platform which integrates all the above things. Everyone should know his daily tasks, be able to check the projects progress. It needs to be easy to contact other team members for questions or help. Tasks should be easily assigned to the appropriate team members. Permissions and groups should guarantee that different project parts can be accessed by the right people.
Gerard Schwabe is senior project manager at soft-evolution, an innovative provider of team management software Pimero.
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