VIDEO: Teamwork Project Management Software Review

Welcome. Today we'll be looking at Teamwork, an online project management and employee collaboration tool. This video is brought to you by Technology Advice Smart Advisor which lets you compare over 100 project management vendors based on your individual needs. Teamwork describes itself as powerful yet simple, which is a pretty accurate self-characterization. We've got the online system open right here and are going to take you through the basic interface and tools.

After you've created an account, you'll be taken here to your dashboard. On the left, we've got all of our ongoing projects. Then here in the middle, we have a news feed style activity overview. This shows us what we've accomplished lately and we can see any upcoming tasks that we have as well. Clicking on a project will take us to a more detailed overview page. We can see all the activity that's occurred sorted by date again. See upcoming tasks or use this subheader here to dive further into the project.

On the task page, we can see everything that's assigned to this project. And we can make multiple to-do lists. We can also assign team members, set dates, or generate reports over here that show the task completed, the time it takes to complete those tasks, and who's done the most of them. It's a pretty cool feature, and it's very easy to use. We can also set project specific milestones or send messages to the entire team, upload files that are specific to that project.

And there's a time tracking tab built right into the software. This is helpful if you have remote workers or if your project manager just wants to see exactly where everyone's resources are going. There's also a collaborative document editing feature in Teamwork called notebooks that allows people to work on things like press releases or blog posts together. There's also a risk register which allows people to enter any problems that they might be worried about or just potential obstacles to look out for and set some parameters such as how likely you think these are to occur and what the impact would be if it did occur.

There's a dedicated project link database if you want to put external resources. And there's a billing system built in where you can track your expenses and your invoices. Finally, you can see all the people on your team who are working on this project. There are a few other pretty standard project management features that teamwork includes. Um, these include a calendar view, which we can access here, and a statuses page where we can see all the people who are using Teamwork, what projects they're assigned to, and even what tasks they're doing.

That's a pretty basic walkthrough of Teamwork's online interface. It's nicely designed and has an intuitive workflow system. There's not too much of a learning curve, so you should be able to jump right in. It's not specialized for any specific industry, but unless you're working on a very technical project, that shouldn't matter much. If you're thinking of implementing project management software or just want to learn more about your options, visit technologyadvice.com.

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