Online Collaboration – Google Documents

Tool:
Google Documents

URL:
http://docs.google.com

Key benefit:
Great tool to help you upload, edit and share your documents online

Tip:
Use this tool to upload your important documents and take them along “with you” wherever you go.  No need for memory stick any longer. You can access your documents anytime, anywhere… (no wonder this is called “cloud computing” : the documents go [...]

16bugs project requirements tracking tool

Tool:
16bugs.com project and bug tracking tool

URL:
http://16bugs.com

Key benefit:
This tool is marketed as a software bug tracker but I have found it also works really well as a simple and elegant tool to help organize your tasks or “to-list” for a project or as a central requirements and change management tool. It’s hosted so no special [...]

Google Groups

Tool:
Google Groups

URL:
http://groups.google.com/

Key benefit:
Free online collaboration tool… great for working on projects, especially with remote participants

Tip:
Google Groups is one of the most simple online collaboration tools. It just takes minutes to set up and like typical Google products, it has a very intuitive interface so no long training sessions required. If you don’t need to [...]

WBS Chart Pro

Tool:
WBS Chart Pro

URL:
http://www.criticaltools.com/wbschartprosoftware.htm

Key benefit:
To plan the main chunks of work involved with a project and to ensure no major work items are overlooked

Tip:
Businesses are increasingly moving towards more projectized organizational structures. One of the big challenges on a project is defining the scope of a project without forgetting important tasks, a big problem leading [...]