Best Project-Management Software

The reality of today’s scattered workforce means that, for most executives, you can go days or weeks without ever physically encountering or even speaking to your teammates on any given project. While the global economy and telecommuting have made it easier to collaborate with far-flung teams, it has come at the price of oversight. Keeping tabs on teams and projects in a virtual world is now a complex and daunting problem, and many execs now find they spend a good portion of each day simply “checking in” on what’s happening. The good news: there’s an app for that. Here are seven of the best and most interesting project-management tools on the market, with something included for every budget.

Christopher Null has been a technology journalist for 20 years. He was the founding editor of Mobile PC magazine and has written about technology for outlets such as Yahoo!, Wired and PC World. No slouch under the hood of a PC, he assembled a computer in seven minutes when competing in the TigerDirect Charity PC Race at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show. He can be reached at editor@executivetravelmag.com.