Effectiveness of your project team will significantly depend on quality and functionality of project tracking tools your team uses to do jobs and tasks. The truth is that you don't want your project to be overdue and your team to be disorganized, so you need to overcome problems of time management and team building. Those tools address such problems by allowing you to keep track of every task within your project and design job schedules for every team member. They make management of activities and processes fast, easy and painless.

You can find multiple tools that let use either traditional approach or agile approach to project planning. Each of the approaches has pros and cons. Here's some information about the approaches:

• Traditional approach lets consider a project as a sequence of tasks and jobs. It entails dictating every task, creating timelines and defining responsibilities of team members. Most tools and open source tools support the traditional approach.
• Agile approach includes development of release plans and identification of a series of iteration plans to produce a product within a project . Usually agile project tools are web based and widely used to manage large projects.

VIP Task Manager Professional Edition is project management software that uses client-server technologies to give users the best tools . The software supports multiuser collaboration and allows keeping information (task, documents) in a centralized database. VIP Task Manager combines project trackingtools that help you supervise tasks, monitor projects, customize workflows, and create schedules. The software will help you increase velocity and performance of your project team. You can try VIP Task Manager for free (the 30-day evaluation copy).

VIP Organizer is a single-user software solution for task management. It's originally designed to help a person manage daily tasks, duties and responsibilities. You can use this simple tool to create personal todo lists for managing both home chores and office jobs. You can try VIP Organizer for free (the 30-day evaluation copy).