Work management vs project management
- Scope. Project management runs one project from brief to delivery. Work management runs the whole queue.
- The question. “Will this project land on time?” against “Who is doing what this week, and what slips if we add one more thing?”
- The views. Project plans use timelines and milestones. Work management uses boards, lists, calendars and workload.
What a work management tool needs for client work
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.
How PLYNTUM handles it
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 work management in PLYNTUM.
See also people and capacity, why missed deadlines start with work nobody owns, team capacity and all terms in the glossary.