It’s an even better idea to implement a good idea. Yes you got it right, implementation thus becomes what makes or breaks an idea. The thing with execution, or implementation, though is that it can eat up your entire time, leaving you little or no time to follow-up on tasks. As multitaskers, entrepreneurs should focus on this aspect and understand how they can balance their time with new departments and projects. Since so much depends on an idea’s execution, you can’t take the risk of anything going wrong. Time, money, and revenues depend gravely on different people meeting their deadlines and working as a team. One trick to get things done on time is to create a sense of urgency. Shorter deadlines, clarity, and set goals in mind can make this process occur more naturally. If not, there are a ton of apps and software available online to aid you:

Trello

One of the most popular apps used these days, Trello is a cloud-based tool allowing unlimited projects and users up to 10MB. It allows you to not only share ideas but also track progress. It’s like a digital whiteboard where you can write, link, and visualise simultaneously.

Asana

Created by Facebook Co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and ex-engineer Justin Rosenstein, this is one of the easiest project tracking apps. You learn on the fly how to operate this tool. Its well-designed user interface helps you to manage projects, track real time progress, follow up, and store related files and sheets at the same place. It is no cost for up to 15 users.

Fresh Desk

FreshDesk’s cloud-based, multi-channel support not only helps tracking but also in reporting and analysis, in addition to following up remotely. It is availability for Android and iOS.

ZoHo Projects

ZoHo Projects offers several in-built features and different options to customize the way you wish to manage a project. It can turn out to be immensely useful if all these features are used together. It supports Gantt Charts, reports, analytics, and lets you chose from over 50 templates to design the report. Its no cost storage capacity is 10 MB.

MS Project

This Microsoft office desk application is available with a simple Office 365 subscription and allows you to work from anywhere. With this tool, you can plan resources, manage team schedules, calculate what-ifs scenarios, and easily collaborate with all the project stakeholders. This application is a simple tool with the features of a tracker as well as an Excel sheet.

There are thousands of apps and software which help project tracking, and the ones listed here are those that are handpicked for entrepreneurs. Productivity measurement is an indispensible function of any startup, and these tools can be helpful in saving time, energy, and money.

Scoro

It’s a comprehensive solutionthat combines all the features you might need in project management software: projects & tasks, contact management, quotes, team collaboration, billing, and reporting.

Top features:

• Projects with sub-tasks and deadlines

• Real-time KPI dashboard

• Shared team calendar & meeting scheduling

• Contact management

• Time tracking and billing for work

• Detailed reports on project progress and finances

• Quoting and invoicingwith pre-set templates

What’s special about this tool: Scoro helps to streamline your entire work progress, so you don’t need to use a lot of different tools for every task. All your important information is stored in one central place.

PROOFHUB

ProofHub offers a replacement for conventional emailing and a bunch of other tools, integrating multiple project management features under one roof.

Top features:

• Assigned user roles

• Online team discussions and chats

• Task delegating and assignments

• Reporting and tracking project history

• Secure file storage

What’s special about this tool: ProofHub has a simple and well-designed user interface that helps the team to collaborate moreefficiently.

Basecamp

Basecamp is the preferred tool for thousands of project management teams, who enjoy its modern social media-like interface and carefree team collaboration features.

Top features:

• Projects to manage multiple users’ work

• Message boards for discussing new projects or ideas

• In-app collaboration with team

• Reporting on project performance

• Separate dashboard for showing to clients

• Email and desktop notifications

What’s special about this tool: Basecampis is no cost for teachers and students!

Podio

Podio is a flexible and highly customizable online hub for work and team communication.

Top features:

• Assign tasks, attach files and discuss detailswithin the solution

• Share encrypted & large files

• Automate the sales pipelines, project budget tracking, and more

• Get an overview of the company with visual dashboards

• Automate your workflows

What’s special about this tool: Podio’s workflows feature enables you to add if-this-then-that logic to Podio apps. For example, instruct your app to create a task or comment, when an item is created or when a particular update is made to an item.

Workzone

Workzone was built by experienced ad execs who wanted to help agencies and creative teams get visibility into all of their work.

Top features:

• Personalized, individual to-do lists

• Create subtasks and task dependencies

• Set permissions for certain users (including clients) to access projects, tasks and files

• Quickly see statuses with Gantt charts

• Assign people to more than one task

What’s special about this tool: Workzone has a lot of powerful features but is simpler to use than more complex tools. Workzone is meant for the whole team to use.

JIRA

JIRA is a cross-platform issue and bug tracking software with advanced project management capabilities and features.

Top features:

• Create user stories and issues, plan sprints

• Distribute tasks across your software team.

• Prioritize and discuss your team’s work

• Centralize your team communication

• See real-time reporting on your team’s work

What’s special about this tool: JIRA is designed for software development teams, making it the perfect IT project management tool.

NOTION

Notion will give you a completely different take on project management.It helps to plan and discuss projects, share everything with the team, and keep track of all the ideas.

Top features:

• Keep a personal weekly checklist

• Take notes

• Build a task board with flexible drag and drop editor

• Share files

• Nest pages inside each other – like an infinite knowledge base

What’s special about this tool: “Notion is like the LEGO set for collaboration software (or Minecraft, if you are from a younger generation). It lets you assemble workflows that work best for your team, as easy as using a text editor.” – Ivan Zhao, Co-founder of Notion