How do you choose your project planning tool?
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Estelle
Content manager
November 2, 2021
3 min
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Project planning tools are very numerous. However, do they all really meet your goals? To find out, it is essential to understand what your needs are.
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You should opt for a tool of project planning that adapts to your business and organization. It must both bring together all of your employees, while providing you with added value that does not yet exist in your current processes.
For this purpose, you should first focus on the goals of your projects usual. Are they internal or for your customers? Are your employees sometimes resistant to change? Do you need specific skills that you are unable to identify or mobilize? Or are you worried about exceeding your deadlines due to absences? All of these questions can lead you to a particular tool.
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Most of the planning tools available on the market offer you simple functionalities, which you have to manage yourself. This most often results in tasks being assigned to different people with delivery dates, as well as a courier. Tasks and projects can be followed by stage.
Others offer a much more comprehensive project planning tool. For example, some project planning tools allow you to automate:
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Once you have detected the functionalities essential to your business, carry out a comparison of existing tools. In absolute terms, your choice should be on a solution that brings them together. But the most important thing is to have as many as possible. If several of them arrive ex-æquo, you may have to make your choice on aspects that are more aesthetic than technical. Not to mention that the adoption of the planning tool by your teams is essential to take advantage of all its possibilities and successfully manage change!
Also, remember that the important thing is to have a truly useful tool, and not a sum of functionalities that you are not going to use. First, set a human objective, in other words, success in the composition of your project team and how to achieve it with the right tool.
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In general, a traditional project planning tool only offers you basic task and deadline management (in addition to various technical features). But what would you say about a planning tool that allows you to create, before the project, the best teams based on skills, availability and aspirations?
That's what Napta offers. It also gives you the ability to centralize all project information and share it with all team members. But also to react to unexpected events throughout the project thanks to an overview of the company's activity. At the end of the project, Napta also provides all the data needed for profitability analyses.
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Do you want to go deeper into the subject? We have lots of resources at your disposal to help you go further.
In addition to this subject, find our white paper”The keys to an optimal staffing process”.‍
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Also discover our guides, templates and checklists in the Resources tab.
See you soon at Napta!
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Want to know more about the benefits of Napta for your business? Ask for a demo !
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