Once the exclusive domain of specialists, elements of project management have quietly woven themselves into the fabric of modern work. From tracking deadlines and approvals, to monitoring budgets and reporting progress, many jobs now require skills that used to belong to a specific profession. But are there tools that can help everyone, as well as specialists, to work and collaborate more effectively?
“Project management is bleeding into the everyday life of a lot more workers, and evidently some of the large, rigid and expensive tools aren’t positioned for that,” says James Ferrier, manager of large enterprise solutions engineering at Smartsheet, a cloud-based work management platform.
