# Test your knowledge: Evaluating tools

1. **What are the main uses of scheduling and work management software?** Select all that apply.
    
    * <mark>Easily assign tasks to multiple teammates</mark>
        
    * <mark>Help visualize a team’s project progress</mark>
        
    * <mark>Efficiently track progress on the team’s work</mark>
        
    * Quickly communicate with teammates and stakeholders
        
2. **Which of the following are best practices when introducing a new tool to a team?** Select all that apply.
    
    * <mark>Get feedback from stakeholders on important features that may help manage the project.</mark>
        
    * <mark>Discuss the tool early and often</mark>
        
    * Ensure the tool is functional *after* the team is introduced to it.
        
    * <mark>If replacing a tool, allow for a transition period</mark>
        
3. **Fill in the blank: If a project has a \_\_\_\_\_, then it may be worth the team’s time to learn a more sophisticated tool.**
    
    * small team
        
    * <mark>large scope</mark>
        
    * limited budget
        
    * short deadline
        
4. **As a project manager, you need to determine how best to communicate with stakeholders across the company. Which tools are best for communicating?**
    
    * Budgeting tools
        
    * Work management software
        
    * Productivity tools
        
    * <mark>Collaboration tools</mark>
        
5. **Which three of the following best practices can help you choose tools for your project?**
    
    * <mark>Understand a tool’s purpose.</mark>
        
    * <mark>Select tools based on your project’s scope</mark>
        
    * Choose the same tools you used in your last project.
        
    * <mark>Know a tool’s capability.</mark>
        

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