EDUC 6145 WK4



 Having tools to help manage projects is essential to project managers and all parties involved.  The overall point of these tools is not to be a crutch but rather to help streamline most of the nuances involved in the project.  The two tools I want to present are Monday.com and figma.com.



 


 

Figma.com is a user-friendly customizable board. Figma helps teams see the larger picture by allowing them to use customizable widgets and other tools to create maps.  By allowing for the creation of the “blueprint” of the project, different teams can see the start and end goals of the project and add any input to the blueprint.  I use Figma to help visualize large projects so I can see the “flow” of the project and the minor components of each project.

 



 

The next resource that I would like to share is Monday.com. I know that Monday.com is advertised often, but it is an awesome tool for project managers. Monday.com sets up project managers with different points of view, from Gantt charts to calendars. It's like Figma but provides more structure through various templates. It can track everything in the project from start to finish, from budgets to risks. It also allows for team interaction. Teams can add their input on the dashboard to show their progress on the project, removing or allowing for the need for meetings.

 

 

These tools are important to project managers because they streamline the project and hopefully the parties involved. “Working as om is similar to being a traffic conductor, you have to manage people, resources, budgets, activities, and so on,” (Walden,n.d).  These tools can help by acting as a sort of GPS if we are using traffic analogy.

 

 

 

 

 

Resources

Walden University, LLC. (Executive Producer). (n.d.). Creating a project schedule [Video file]. Retrieved from https://waldenu.instructure.com

 

https://www.figma.com/files/drafts?fuid=1218661489776676662

 

https://www.float.com/

 

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