From the course: Project Management Foundations: Small Projects

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Tools for managing small projects

Tools for managing small projects

- [Instructor] Even with small projects, you're going to need help keeping track of project information. There are lots of software options to choose from. If your projects and software budget are both really small, you can make do with the tools you already have: word processing, spreadsheets, and email. For example, you can add tasks with their dates and assigned resources to columns in a spreadsheet. And word processing programs are perfect for many documents you create, whether your project is small or large. With this approach, be sure to keep files where everyone on your team can get to them. Collaboration software is another option that can help teams work on small projects. People can add tasks to build your project task list, and then add more information about the work involved and the progress they've made. Collaboration tools make it easy for the team to work together, whether they ask questions, send…

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