Day: December 21, 2016

Businesses reap diverse benefits through outsourcing. However, managing multiple outsourcing teams can become a challenge for many companies.  When working with outsourcing teams, businesses face challenges in communication, collaboration and information sharing. To engage outsourcing teams personally is another challenge that hinders business productivity.   Even if necessary technology and skills are in place, it is important to use the right set of tools to manage teams to keep a hold over project’s progress and track your teams’ tasks. Use the following popular tools to effectively manage your outsourcing teams and virtual workforce to get the best out of them. Basecamp Managing your business with email chains, file attachments and meetings becomes chaotic. Basecamp counters this issue by organizing your projects, teams and company-wide communication. For instance, if there is a marketing project going on, everybody who is involved with the project sees the same thing on screen. It uses a message board to post updates and feedbacks thereby making everything in order in the form of a story so that it’s easy to get back to it.  In to-do section, assign work and see what’s done and what’s not done without reminding team members about status update time and again. Schedule section shows date and time while docs & files is used to upload images, assets and files making it easy for everyone to find files easily. Campfire is an open chat room to post queries.  Similarly, you can use same set of tools for various other projects. 2. Redbooth Redbooth helps to keep a track of projects and day-to-day tasks of your teams. Connect your chat, email and storage apps in one place.  Streamline your team’s workflow by using checklists and templates. Create productivity reports and Gantt charts at a single click.It has a user-friendly design that keeps a tab on to-do lists and check things off when they are done.  Track task owners, status and deadlines. Use a multiple assignment feature when a task is shared by more than one person. Redbooth can be used by management teams, marketing & creative teams, project managers, IT and remote teams. 3. Process Street Process Street is a powerful tool to manage recurring tasks of your teams. Create process templates and run multiple instances of the template as checklists.  Track progress and collaborate with your team.  User activity can be tracked from your dashboard and you are notified when the task is done. Its simple interface allows you to create structured documents. Intuitive keyboard shortcuts make it a user-friendly tool. Process Street offers a Zapier integration that integrates with over 500 applications to automate tasks. Automatic scheduling, workflow assignment, employee on-boarding are just some of the tasks companies are using Process Street for. 4. Asana Asana empowers team mates to work in proper flow and collaboration. It enables you to track your team’s projects and tasks. Track the progress without scheduling a status meeting or sending reminder emails.  A smarter inbox gets only the needed team updates and no flurry of unwanted messages.Have conversations about your work and turn them into actionable tasks to get expected results. It all can be managed in one place. Asana makes work fun for team members and they are empowered to accomplish the most ambitious goals of the project. 5. Teamwork Projects Teamwork is a great tool to streamline your processes; connect with your customers and collaborate with your team simultaneously. Use Teamwork Projects to collaborate with your team and clients. Your team knows what, when and who needs to do it. Your clients and team know exactly where to look for and store their files. Information is easily accessible through the cloud. Teamwork Desk makes it easy for your team to handle any customer support queries that come their way.  Teamwork Chat ensures better communication by allowing users to be in constant contact through real-time messaging. 6. Liquid Planner Liquid Planner is a predictive project management software for modern business. It takes care of project organization and scheduling so that the teams stay focused and drive the business forward. Using one of its kind predictive planning technology, the scheduling engine estimates how long each task will take, arrange them in priority order. And Liquid Planner will predict when the project will be completed. With advanced workload intelligence and analytics, get a crystal clear view of your team’s work. Your stakeholders get accurate project reporting.  Accessible through the web/ mobile, team members have ready access to documents, comments and reports for seamless collaboration and project execution. 7. Azendoo Azendoo makes teamwork easier and frees from glitches of email collaboration. It is available through a web browser/ mobile app. Create subgroups to share and organize your teamwork. Share information and documents with specific group members.  It integrates with Google Drive, Dropbox and Box to make file sharing easy. See your team’s existing tasks, progress and create new tasks.  Azendoo offers a calendar view of tasks and projects. Use analytics to have a view of the team’s reporting on a particular subject. Track, schedule and even send direct messages to your collaborators. 8. Worksection The workstation offers a lot of features. Manage your business through a single interface. Get an overview of activities and task overdue, tasks due soon, event journals and project lists. Get project overviews in an active and informative format including project timelines, progress and expenses. Manage all tasks, subtasks and comments using a convenient tool. Add custom filter to view customized detail on screen. Worksection further allows you to reassign tasks, change priorities and deadlines. View images, create and share documents on the go. It lists key dates for active projects, birthdays and synchronizes with Google Calendar. 9. Proofhub Proofhub is project management software to plan, collaborate, and organize projects of all sizes. It offers a centralized workspace for task lists, workflows, discussions, gantt charts, documents and calendars.  You can approve files and documents. Every manager is enabled to get an eagle’s eye view of the project. Proofhub runs in the