5 Free Or Affordable On-line Project Management Software Tools for Small Business

As your small business grows in size and starts adding staff in multiple locations and time zones it will become increasingly challenging to collaborate together effectively on multiple projects. In order to collaborate effectively and efficiently, you’ll need to be able to centralize the tasks, projects, resources, file transfers, communications, updates, progress tracking, messaging, forums into one transparent, flexible and easy to use on-line software system.

Of course, there are plenty of project management tools available that can achieve this functionality, but they come with a fee which you may be reluctant to pay in your early cash flow sensitive days where every penny is sacred. As your small business grows there are great options to consider for training and PMP Boot Camp is one such option. The good news is that there are plenty of high quality and free, online project management software tools available and I have listed five of the best free online project management software tools below.

1.Monday.com.

Monday is the first of the new generation, highly visual, drag and drop style project and workflow management tool. It comes with a selection of project management templates so you can hit the ground running. Templates include: project planner, project tracker, change requests, projects overview, high level project plan, cross-departmental project tracking, product roadmap and resource map. Click to try it out.

2. Teambox (Now named Redbooth)

This on-line project management software tool by Teambox is free for up to 5 users. Its an on-line project collaboration tool for project managers, contractors and teams. Its key features include: creating and managing tasks, reporting on tasks, file and content management, team communication and more.

3. Wrike

This online project collaboration and management tool is also free for up to five users and is used by the likes of Google, PayPal and Deloitte to name a few of their thousands of users. Its had great reviews from PCWorld, Enterpreneur, VentureBeat and more. Wrike connects files, project and people into a unique, graphical project collaboration space.

4. AceProject

This is free for up to 5 users/2 active projects/250 mb of files. This is another fully featured online project management tool which has been reviewed by the likes of the New York Times, ZDNet, TechRepublic and many, many more…. It has functionality for project management, document management, time tracking, expense tracking, collaboration and much more…

5. Comindware Project

This on-line project collaboration and management tool is geared more towards the small to medium sized business and those with extremely complex, more heavy duty project planning requirements. It includes a cutting edge predictive real time gannt-chart, visual WBS and automated priority based planning.

6. GanttPRO

This online Gantt chart based project-planning tool helps individuals and teams of all sizes from a great scope of industries plan, schedule, and manage tasks. It also perfectly serves for other project related activities such as resource and cost management, team collaboration, time logging, and many others. Giants like NASA, Sony, and Vodafone are among their clients. GanttPRO has a free 14-day trial with all the features available.

Related Articles