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Manage your way to perfect project management

From kickoffs to KPIs, manage all the moving pieces of your projects in Slack, the collaboration hub for work.

Learn how PM teams use Slack for:

Automation

All your tools for project tracking under one roof

Slack shouldn’t replace the tools you already use for project management — but it does make them better. Powerful integrations with other services bring tasks, notifications and more into and out of Slack.

A project manager gets Asana updates right in Slack channels. With a click, she can get more detail or mark as complete.
proj-website-relaunch
Jagdeep Das10:24 AMDesign for v2 of the homepage is complete. Kicking it over to copy for some word ✨ magic ✨ !
ASANAAPP10:45 AMJagdeep Das assigned a task to you.
Harry Boone | Due March 25
Copy for V2 website
View task in Asana Mark complete
Harry Boone10:46 AMSounds good! 👍
Message #proj-website-relaunch
  • Discuss and manage tasks

    Centralize tasks from different software, discuss resolutions, and create new tasks all from within Slack.

  • Keep projects on track

    Send task updates and deadline reminders into Slack, keeping everyone on top of project progress.

  • Easily share and collaborate on project files

    Find and share files from file management services like Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive, without leaving Slack.

PLANNING

Collaborate your way to a successful project planning process

Slack helps keep information clear and visible, so even the tiniest deliverables aren’t missed. Share documents or files in project channels so even new hires have the info they need to move work forward.

In a simulated Slack channel, a project manager assigns tasks and shares a Google spreadsheet with team members.
events-confs-frontiers-2020
Lee Hao11:12 AMVenue is officially locked in. 🎉 I’ve created a spreadsheet of everything that needs to be updated.
Frontiers2020 Asset Checklist314kB PDF
uploaded this file: Frontiers2020 Asset Checklist
Lee Hao11:13 AM@Harry Boone: Please check to make sure all design assets are there.
Lee Hao11:14 AM@Lisa Zhang: Please do the same for hard-copy.
Lee Hao11:15 AMScheduling a team sync for Friday to discuss more logistics.
🙌5💥3
Message #events-confs-frontiers-2020
Suggested channels
What are channels?

Channels are where you can share files and messages with your teams. They can be created for every project, topic, department, or whatever makes sense for your company.

for planning:
  • roadmap-q3

    A channel to discuss, iterate, and deliver on next quarter’s plans

  • project-management-internal

    A private channel where you can share knowledge and challenges with other Project Managers

  • events-confs-frontiers-2020

    Plan specific events and related deliverables in their own channels

Suggested channels
What are channels?

Channels are where you can share files and messages with your teams. They can be created for every project, topic, department, or whatever makes sense for your company.

for planning:
  • roadmap-q3

    A channel to discuss, iterate, and deliver on next quarter’s plans

  • project-management-internal

    A private channel where you can share knowledge and challenges with other Project Managers

  • events-confs-frontiers-2020

    Plan specific events and related deliverables in their own channels

32%

Less email

“Most of us work on about 10 different sports throughout the year. To be able to follow work on all of them through different Slack channels and threads is vital for our team.”

Michael Bucklin

Vice President of Digital Content at FOX Sports

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OVERSIGHT

Increase throughput with improved visibility and shared knowledge

Slack opens up shared knowledge to the people who need it.

Team members post weekly status updates into a shared Slack channel. When updates are visible, everyone stays in-the-know.
proj-website-standup
Slackbot11:30 AMDon’t forget to post your weekly updates!
Jagdeep Das11:45 AM Done
•V2 of website
•Mock-ups of social ads + unfurls

Doing
•Logo tweaks for social
•Blog header images

Blockers
•None
Harry Boone11:52 AM Done
•🌴Vacay last week

Doing
•✏️ Flowing copy into website design

Blockers
•✈️ Jet lag!
Message #proj-website-standup
Suggested channels
What are channels?

Channels are where you can share files and messages with your teams. They can be created for every project, topic, department, or whatever makes sense for your company.

for oversight:
  • proj-website-standup

    Post weekly team standups in this channel to save time and loop in remote workers

  • announcements-global

    A company-wide channel where everyone can see the latest news

  • website-notifications-master

    A channel where you can find out the moment something breaks, changes, or goes live

Suggested channels
What are channels?

Channels are where you can share files and messages with your teams. They can be created for every project, topic, department, or whatever makes sense for your company.

for oversight:
  • proj-website-standup

    Post weekly team standups in this channel to save time and loop in remote workers

  • announcements-global

    A company-wide channel where everyone can see the latest news

  • website-notifications-master

    A channel where you can find out the moment something breaks, changes, or goes live

23%

Fewer meetings

“In the time it takes to use email or schedule a meeting, a group of people can gather in Slack to solve the problem.”

Ryan Mahoney

Director of Engineering, MBTA Customer Technology

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COLLABORATION

Bring teams together to move work forward

Easily find coworkers in Slack to assign deliverables, check in on progress, or celebrate successes. Channels for projects, teams, or roles keep everyone on the same page, wherever they are.

A busy project manager delegates resources in a Slack channel created just for that very purpose.
proj-website-relaunch
Lisa Dawson2:35 PM🔵 Medium priority request. Can we get another designer on the website relaunch (#proj-website-relaunch)? We still have a ton of time-intensive, yet small, tweaks to make as we go into the final stretch.
👀11
Lisa Zhang2:42 PM@Lisa Dawson We may, I’ll direct-message you!
Harry Boone3:10 PM🔴 Hi there - somewhat urgent request for a copy editor? I think most are tied up with the content campaign, but I need one for web next week.
👀1
Lisa Zhang3:12 PMI have someone who’s just rolling off a project. I’ll direct-message you w/ details.
👍1
Message #proj-website-relaunch
Suggested channels
What are channels?

Channels are where you can share files and messages with your teams. They can be created for every project, topic, department, or whatever makes sense for your company.

for collaboration:
  • proj-website-relaunch

    Bring multiple teams together in a channel dedicated to a specific project

  • sales-engineering-coffees

    A channel that brings two departments together for relationship-building

  • help-proj-mgmt

    A dedicated channel for people to request resources for current and upcoming projects

Suggested channels
What are channels?

Channels are where you can share files and messages with your teams. They can be created for every project, topic, department, or whatever makes sense for your company.

for collaboration:
  • proj-website-relaunch

    Bring multiple teams together in a channel dedicated to a specific project

  • sales-engineering-coffees

    A channel that brings two departments together for relationship-building

  • help-proj-mgmt

    A dedicated channel for people to request resources for current and upcoming projects

Frequently asked questions

Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. Project management with Slack means you can lead your entire team and company through a project while keeping everyone on track.

You can use Slack to manage the moving pieces of every project you work on. Slack also integrates with your existing project management tools like Asana, Trello, Monday.com, Zendesk and many more for project management planning, oversight, collaboration and automation.

You can use Slack for project management in many ways! Here are three tips to help you get started using Slack for project management:

- Create project-specific channels
- Integrate Slack with your other project management tools
- Automate project updates and check-ins across your team and leadership

Slack integrates and works well with project management tools like Jira, Asana, ClickUp, Notion, GitHub, G Suite and much more. Learn more project management tools that integrate well with Slack.

You can use Slack as a scrum tool. You can also integrate with other tools like Jira, Asana, ClickUp, Monday.com and many more to build your team's productivity platform.

You can use Slack for agile planning and sprints. Learn more about coordinating user feedback, reducing meetings and integrating with agile planning tools like Jira, Asana and Trello.

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