{"compare":false,"blog":false,"article":false,"page":{"title":"Work management","lead":"Work management is the day-to-day organization of tasks, owners, deadlines and priorities across a team. Project management plans one project to a defined end; work management covers everything a team is doing at once, across all projects and clients.","sections":[{"heading":"Work management vs project management","html":"<ul><li><strong>Scope.</strong> Project management runs one project from brief to delivery. Work management runs the whole queue.</li><li><strong>The question.</strong> “Will this project land on time?” against “Who is doing what this week, and what slips if we add one more thing?”</li><li><strong>The views.</strong> Project plans use timelines and milestones. Work management uses boards, lists, calendars and workload.</li></ul>"},{"heading":"What a work management tool needs for client work","html":"<p>For a team that bills clients, a generic task board is not enough. Each task should belong to a project and a client, carry an owner and a date, and collect the hours spent on it. That last link is what lets the hours become cost and the cost become a margin.</p>"},{"heading":"How PLYNTUM handles it","html":"<p>Company boards with list, board, calendar, week and timeline views, custom fields, dependencies, subtasks and recurring task templates are on every plan. Every task belongs to a project and a client, and hours are logged against the task. See <a href=\"{{route:platform/work}}\">work management in PLYNTUM</a>.</p><p>See also <a href=\"{{route:platform/people}}\">people and capacity</a>, <a href=\"{{route:blog/missed-deadlines-ownership}}\">why missed deadlines start with work nobody owns</a>, <a href=\"{{route:glossary/team-capacity}}\">team capacity</a> and <a href=\"{{route:glossary}}\">all terms in the glossary</a>.</p>"}]},"faq":[["Is work management software the same as project management software?","They overlap. Most tools do both; the difference is whether the tool is organized around one project or the whole team’s workload."],["Do I need work management if I use a spreadsheet?","A spreadsheet shows the list but not who is overloaded or which client each task belongs to. Past 5–10 people that gap usually shows up as missed deadlines."],["Does PLYNTUM have Gantt charts?","It has a timeline view. It does not offer Gantt baselines."]]}