Let Explore Slack As Perfect Way Of Project Management
What is Slack?
Slack is a messaging app for business that connects people to the information they need. By bringing people together to work as one unified team, Slack transforms the way organizations communicate.Working in Slack
Slack helps you work in a more connected, flexible, and inclusive way.Connected
Slack makes access to your colleagues easy — message anyone inside or outside your organization and collaborate just like you would in person. People can work in dedicated spaces called channels that bring together the right people and information.Flexible
Slack supports asynchronous work. When work is organized in channels, no matter your location, time zone, or function, you can access the information you need on your own time. Ask questions, get caught up, and share updates without having to coordinate schedules.Inclusive
In Slack, everyone in an organization has access to the same shared and searchable information. When teams work together in channels, information can be shared with everyone at once, helping keep teams stay aligned and make decisions more quickly.Features of Slack
Work more easily with everyone
Stay on the same page and make decisions faster by bringing all of your work communication into one place.
Channels
Stay organized and focused with central spaces for conversations, files, tools and people.
Slack Connect
Collaborate with teams at other companies the same way you do with teams at your own.
Huddles and clips
Accessibility
Messaging
Teams & Workspaces
Slack allows businesses, communities, and other organizations to create a private, dedicated workspace complete with a custom URL. After a simple signup process, you’ll be able to invite your team to join and start getting work done. For small to medium-sized companies, you’ll likely need just one workspace organized by public and private channels to meet all your needs, but Slack also has features to help enterprises manage multiple workspaces if that makes more sense (more on that below).Company-Wide and Private Messaging
Slack messaging is grouped into channels and direct messages to organize conversations and replace communications that might otherwise be scattered across emails, text messages, or in person meetings. Public channels are open to all members of a workspace and can cover everything from different marketing and sales operations to random discussions and streams of memes (if you’re company likes to have as much fun as we do). You can also create Private channels in Slack to help break down large teams into their relevant working groups or restrict sensitive conversations or work materials to relevant team members. And Slack allows private messages, sent directly to other team members, so you can have one-off communications or keep things organized between you and specific members of your team.Integrations
Integration with third-party services is one of Slack’s most powerful features. These let you use some of your favorite apps right within Slack – so you don’t have to keep switching tabs, remember where that shared link went to, or open up another application just to quickly double check something. Some of Slack’s major integrations include:- Google Drive
- Dropbox
- Heroku
- Github
- Zendesk
- Zapier
How much does Slack Cost?
Slack offers plans from Free to $12.50 per user for most businesses (with enterprise pricing available on request). Here’s what each plan includes (higher tiers include features of lower tiers):Free
- 10k Message Search
- 10 Integrations
- Two Factor Authentication
- One on One Voice and Video Calls
- 5GB of Total Storage
- Standard Support
Standard – $6.67 per User/per Month
- Unlimited Search History
- Unlimited Integrations
- External Access Features
- Custom Retention Policies
- Up to 15 participant Voice and Video Calls with Interactive Screen Sharing
- Enhanced Search Features
- 10GB of Storage per Team Member
- Priority Support
Plus – $12.50 per User/per Month
- Additional Authentication Features
- Compliance Exports
- Additional Administration Features
- 20 GB per Team Member
- 24/7 support with four-hour response time
- 99.99% guaranteed uptime SLA
Enterprise
- Multiple connected workspaces
- Additional storage and security
- Dedicated support specialist
Frequently asked questions
What is Slack Connect?
Slack Connect is a more secure and productive way for organizations to communicate together. It lets you move all the conversations with your external partners, clients, vendors and others into Slack, replacing email and fostering collaboration. Slack’s enterprise-grade security features and compliance standards, like Enterprise Key Management, extend to Slack Connect. Learn more about Slack Connect here.
Why should my company use Slack?
Excellent question. Slack is a new way for your entire company to communicate. It replaces email with something faster, better organized and more secure. Instead of one-off email chains, all your communication is organized into channels that are easy to create, join and search. When there’s a channel for everything going on at your company, everyone knows exactly where to go to get work done.
For more reading on the topic, we recommend checking out our Resources Library.
How can we use Slack effectively?
The key to Slack success is channels. By creating a channel for all your projects, your teams, your offices, your departments—everything you’re doing at work—you create a space for every conversation to happen. And because channels are easy to join and create, Slack can adapt to meet changing needs. If someone new joins a project, you can simply add them to the channel and they scroll up to read through old conversations. When it’s time to start something new, create a new channel and invite the right people.
To learn more, read up on how to collaborate effectively in channels.
Is Slack secure?
Yes. You can securely discuss confidential information in Slack. Slack offers multiple ways to ensure that your information, conversations and files stay safe. Slack delivers enterprise-grade security at every layer, adhering to multiple compliance certifications, including SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO/IEC 27001 and more. Slack is GDPR-compliant and can be configured for HIPAA and FINRA compliance. It is FedRAMP Moderate authorized.
In addition, Slack offers security features, like Enterprise Key Management, that allow admins fine-grained control over data encryption. You can also integrate your own security tools with Slack to get instant notification if a threat is detected. Learn more about Slack’s comprehensive security program here.
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.
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.-
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.
Suggested channels for planning:
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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 -
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Plan specific events and related deliverables in their own channels
OVERSIGHT
Increase throughput with improved visibility and shared knowledge
Slack opens up shared knowledge to the people who need it.
Suggested channels for oversight:
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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
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.
Suggested channels for collaboration:
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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
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