Project management applications

As a small business owner, you have to do many projects at a time. Powerful project management applications help you manage your multiple projects and rationally allocate project resources, such as time, people and money.

A PM application is a computer software program that combines efficient tools for planning, executing, tracking, supervising, and reporting a project and its entities, such as tasks, activities and schedules. Examples of the best tools allow you to allocate, control, and manage project resources in the way that ensures successful completion of your project. The best shareware for Mac or Windows give you tools to do your project through the whole project lifecycle. In particular, you can:

• Plan and schedule your project by setting project phases, creating to-do lists, and designing schedules.
• Perform the project by assigning to-do lists and tasks to executers (team members).
• Supervise and monitor your project by tracking to-do lists and monitoring task performance.
• Report and review your project by collecting reports from team members and getting notifications of project completion.

In addition, the best apps let you share information and communicate with team members. You can use it to create a centralized database ( data repository) to allow team members to access data, including tasks and schedules. In such a way, you can build teamwork and group collaboration.

There are several types, including web-based (online) free solutions (e.g. Google apps) and desktop solutions (e.g. VIP Task Manager). Web based project management applications allow using a web browser to access data remotely over Internet. Desktop software keeps all information on projects locally, allowing team members to connect to a local database over LAN.

VIP Task Manager is desktop shareware free download solution that uses a client-server technology to allow several users to access a database over LAN or/and Internet. It gives powerful functionality for planning, executing, supervising, monitoring and reporting projects, tasks and schedules. VIP Task Manager is a great alternative to most open source applications because it offers reliable and easy-to-use tools. VIP Task Manager is a shareware solution that is continuously maintained and updated by a team of professional software developers. You can try an evaluation copy of the software for free.