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Manage your way to perfect project management

From kick-off meetings 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 Das10:24Design for v2 of the homepage is complete. Kicking it over to copy for some word ✨ magic ✨!
ASANAAPP10:45Jagdeep Das assigned a task to you.
Toby Davies | Due 25th March
Copy for V2 website
View task in Asana Mark complete
Toby Davies10:46Sounds good! 👍
Message #proj-website-relaunch
  • Discuss and manage tasks

    Centralise tasks from different programs, 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 such as 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 starters 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
Paul Leung11:12Venue 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
Paul Leung11:13@Toby Davies: Please check and make sure all design assets are there.
Paul Leung11:14@Elena Nowak: Please do the same for hard copy.
Paul Leung11:15Scheduling a team catch-up 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%

Fewer emails

“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-huddle
Slackbot11:30Don’t forget to post your weekly updates!
Jagdeep Das11:45 Done
•V2 of website
•Mock-ups of social ads + unfurls

Doing
•Logo tweaks for social media
•Blog header images

Hurdles
•None
Toby Davies11:52 Done
•🌴Hols last week

Doing
•✏️ Flowing copy into website design

Hurdles
•✈️ Jet lag!
Message #proj-website-huddle
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-huddle

    Post weekly team huddles in this channel to save time and bring remote workers into the loop.

  • 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-huddle

    Post weekly team huddles in this channel to save time and bring remote workers into the loop.

  • 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 colleagues in Slack to assign deliverables, check up 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 Amos14:35🔵 Medium-priority request. Could we get another designer on the website relaunch (#proj-website-relaunch)? We still have a shedload of time-intensive small tweaks to make as we enter the final stretch.
👀11
Elena Nowak14:42@Lisa Amos We might, I’ll direct-message you!
Toby Davies15:10🔴 Hi there – somewhat urgent request for a copy editor? I think most of them are tied up with the content campaign, but I need one for web next week.
👀1
Elena Nowak15:12I’ve got someone who’s just finishing up a project. I’ll direct-message you w/ the 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 that 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 that you work on. Slack also integrates with your existing project management tools such as 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 such as 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 such as 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 such as Jira, Asana and Trello.

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