Free Project Management

Why do you need a free project management software?

Today project managers can take advantage of project management tools that reduce the amount of paperwork and space they once needed. Now companies are migrating their project management tasks to the Internet. The purpose of an online project management system is to organize and simplify projects from start to finish. It centralizes all the information that are easily accessible from anywhere and at anytime using a simple web browser in a secure way.

The difference between web-based project management tools and traditional downloadable software is that with the latter you do have to install software, no maintenance and hassle free which makes it quite powerful and easy to setup and run your projects. They do offer collaboration tools apart from the normal project management tools to improve communication with your project team. In addition, if you need to create a nice gantt charts, you can do so in no time by taking a print out anywhere and at anytime you wish for your reference

Zoho Projects offers the following features in Free Plan to get started :

1. Keep your work organized with tasks, subtasks, milestones and dependencies
2. Communicate with your team using dashboard, wiki and chat
3. Organize & manage files in a central place
4. Schedule and organize team meetings from one place
5. Track your project progress with gantt charts
6. Create team intranet portals (Wikis)
7. Share ideas and keep the conversation flowing through forums
8. Create chat rooms and discuss in real-time with your team
9. Collaborate with your projects right from your email
10. Remind team of events using shared calendar
11. Collaborative dashboard ties everthing together with stream on latest activities
12. Define user roles and access privileges for your portal
13. Works with Google Apps like Gmail, Google Docs, Calendar and Sites
14. Import Microsoft and Basecamp Projects into Zoho
15. Zoho Projects in your pocket with our iPhone Mobile App