When it comes to project management, there are a lot of courses, training, tips, processes and tools available to help you along the way. These are all fantastic resources to utilize, especially for those just learning about project management who are unsure of what needs to be managed effectively within their business.



In any business setting, there is a lot of information to manage. The best way to tackle this is to identify what you need to manage in your business projects, and find the solution to managing all of them in one place.



So, what needs to be managed within the project?



Project details - If your business is like most businesses, you have a lot of projects to manage at once. Keep the details of each project straight by including them within the project itself.



Tasks - All tasks that roll up to the completion of the project should be managed as well. Find a solution that allows you to easily input, assign and manage all tasks for your team.



Communications - Keep communications in the same place as your work. Organizing communications allows you to reference past decisions in the future, and keeps an archive of all great brainstormed ideas for review later.



Files - Storing and sharing files is important for many projects, so it’s equally important to manage them along with your projects. Find a file versioning solution in your project management solution to manage files as effectively as possible.



Collaboration - In order for projects and tasks to be completed successfully, there will need to be team collaboration around the project. Managing the collaboration and how the team is coming together to complete work is key to the success of the project.



Whitespace activity - Not all tasks and acton items fall within the project plan. There are many tasks and meetings that happen internally and around a customer’s project that also need to be managed. Make sure you can manage all activity within your new project management process and tool.