Sharepoint Project Management

Why Sharepoint Project Management?

Sharepoint Project Management has been getting a lot of attention lately, as resource-strapped companies look for easier and more cost-effective ways to manage their Sharepoint projects.

Microsoft offers an excellent Sharepoint project tracking tool in their Fabulous 40 portfolio of Sharepoint templates. The Budgeting & Tracking Multiple Projects template allows users to easily create and manage a Sharepoint project plan for multiple projects.

But it has one glaring defect: the inability to sync project tasks with Outlook.

Thankfully, Sync Task Software, a New York-based company, has solved this problem. Their Sharepoint Project Management Template duplicates much of the functionality in the Budgeting and Tracking Multiple Projects template and adds the ability to sync project tasks with Outlook.

An added benefit of the Sharepoint-Outlook syncing functionality is the ability to create project tasks in Sharepoint or Outlook and sync changes between the two platforms.

A Sharepoint gantt chart is automatically created based on the project tasks entered into Sharepoint or Outlook. This makes it a very flexible and easy project management for Sharepoint tool.

While the Sharepoint Project Management Template is a paid offering, Sharepoint itself is free. This makes it an excellent choice for project management during this difficult economic climate. In addition, the efficiencies gained by Sharepoint-Outlook syncing of project tasks make the Sharepoint Project Management Template pay for itself very quickly.