Project Management Tools.

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Reflecting back on your project experience, or using information from your resources: What tools do you think would be the most helpful for creating the project schedule for your trade show project? How could you use spreadsheets, such as Microsoft Excel? How could you use scheduling tools, such as Microsoft Project? Share some tips for using either of these products.

Project Management tools track the progress of the project. They feed from the Project Scheduling tools and then use those tools to update plans and schedules.
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In other word, Project Management tools track the progress of the project using the information using information from Excel, MS project, etc.

Project management software is a term covering many types of software, including scheduling, resource allocation, collaboration software, communication and documentation systems, which are used to deal with the complexity of large projects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management_software

For example, project management tools are such things as reports and statistics, Gantt charts, Time sheets, Task/bug Tracking, Multiple Project managing tools, and multiple users. See http://www.aceproject.com/

Example 1: Web-based Project Management Tool

Arcspan's is a project management web-based application is specifically designed to help Professional Services Organizations streamline their service delivery options for by:

* Automating and web-enabling timesheet entry, expense submissions, approvals and invoicing for increased efficiency and accuracy.
* Ensuring the 'best' person for the job is found from your resource pool, by searching skills and certifications.
* Facilitating ...