Which Tools Can Benefit Creative Project Management?
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Creative project management is a lot like a hike. And as a creative project manager, you play the role of trail guide and ranger, guiding your teams towards program success. But it’s important to remember that even the best trail guides and rangers need a backpack full of tools and resources to help them get to the summit.

To support your journey, we’ve compiled a proven list of software and tools to help improve your workflow. Keep reading, to learn more, and be sure your “trail pack” has all the tools necessary for success.

Time management and strong organizational skills are paramount to program success. actiTIME guarantees you have both. It’s an all-in-one time-tracking and scope management software. And it’s built to streamline your workflow no matter the size of your team or project.

It offers an intuitive, easy-to-use dashboard that allows team members to track their time, organize their tasks, assign responsibilities and roles, update progress in real-time, and generate a variety of reports in a few clicks.

Start to finish, this amazing tool helps provide valuable business insights for organizations of all sizes and ensures all of your projects are well-handled, within scope, and on time… every time.

Content Snare, at its core, is a file-sharing service. But what makes it different from the competition is its sleek design and robust client-facing organizational features.

Unlike typical file-sharing services, Content Snare is optimized to make not just your life easier, but your client’s too. How? By prioritizing visual and organizational clarity. It’s easy! Add files for review, request edits, set automatic reminders, and create custom Kanban workflows — all from a single dashboard.

With Content Snare, you can ditch the typical file-sharing mess and give your clients a clean interface for all project needs.

Samepage is another great tool for project managers.

As the name implies, the core of Samepage is, well, keeping all teams and employees on the same page. And like the other tools mentioned on this list, Samepage provides an intuitive, bright-and-vibrant dashboard equipped with a bundle of helpful apps and features.

You can chat with colleagues, organize your workflow, create and review content, track progress updates, and more.

Calendly offers a slightly different suite of benefits than tools one, two, three, and four (listed above) — making it another unique, must-have resource for every project manager.

So what is it? It’s an amazing automated scheduling software. It’s built to evolve the classic and outdated meeting notice process and make life easier. It can link with up to six of your calendars and auto-check meeting availability. And it helps you own the scheduling experience.

Features include one-on-one meeting scheduling, round-robin meeting scheduling, collective scheduling, group scheduling, notifications, smart time buffers, daily limits, time zone detection, and more!

Slack is a popular communication and organizational tool. It serves upwards of 750,000 different companies globally!

Slack offers a secure form of communication between employees. It provides fun hashtag-centric channels to focus conversation streams. And perfect now more than ever, Slack offers voice and video call capability.

Oh, and did we mention it also offers file-sharing features and a workflow builder?

actiPLANS is a leave management system brought to you by the talented teams at actiTIME. And, no surprise, it’s just as amazing and functional as its parent brand.

It streamlines absence management and provides an intuitive dashboard and interface for users to input and approve time-off requests.

With actiPLANS you can say goodbye to the dreaded messy, confused, and disorganized absence management process and say hello to an HR upgrade. Making it effortless to stay up to date and track PTO, Sick Days, and more.

Filestage is an all-in-one online proofing and feedback software. And an absolute must-have for creative departments everywhere.

It’s used by some of the planet’s biggest brand names (looking at you, NBC) and funnels the review process to make life easier for creatives.

With Filestage, you can upload files, add comments, organize a process for review, track feedback, and even timestamp approvals — taking the stress and mess out of the editorial process.

Agency Analytics is an all-in-one reporting platform. And it provides SEO, PPC, social, review, call-tracking dashboards, and more.

It’s easy-to-use and lets you connect all your digital marketing channels in one, convenient location. Plus, at the click of a button, you can even export automated reports and provide custom, fully-branded, client-facing dashboards.

Podio is another helpful tool for creative project managers. It’s a customizable work management solution used by brands like Deloitte and helps to get your teams working in sync.

And like the other tools mentioned above, it also offers a unique, customizable dashboard to streamline user navigation, equipped with everything you could need for effective and creative collaboration: from meeting scheduling features, automated workflows, data visualization, task management to chat features and beyond!

Productive might be the last on our list but it isn’t the least! It’s an amazing tool built to help you easily manage your sales pipeline to win more deals.

With Productive, you can customize your lead pipeline and set reminders to follow up with individual contacts. And you can convert your leads to projects to track costs — as well as monitor sales reporting to see what’s working best.

Do You Have the Tools Needed for Successful Creative Project Management?

Like a trail guide, every creative project manager needs a variety of trusty tools to ensure success! And by using the ten tools listed above, your creative project management skills are sure to improve.

In the meantime, consider adding your first tool to your repertoire and begin your free actiTIME trial today!

Originally published at actitime.com