11. Software Tools for Project Managers

In this module, you are going to find out which software tools are there that can help you plan, manage and control your projects in real-life environment. 

As many of the SW packages are really complex and rich in functionality we are going to focus mainly on aspects that directly link to the project management fundamentals that we have covered so far in the course. 

In the end of the module, you should be be able to:

- identify some of the SW products for project management (both customer-off-the-shelf as well as freeware) 

- establish a new project

- build up a work-breakdown structure 

- establish WBS task hierarchy

- establish and adjust links among WBS tasks, specify predecessors

- put in the milestones

- assign resources to WBS tasks

- add re-occuring events like project meetings into your plan

- use notes function to share comments and files to individual tasks