Project Management Software, Part 1: Recognizing the Need

Recently, Right Touch Editing had a client project that involved editing 100 short files, categorized into two topics. The files were located in two SharePoint folders, one for each topic. Within each topic were three folders: to be edited, edited, and finalized. This provided a good structure to work from but we lacked a client-provided file tracker. 

We had a week to complete the project, and each day the client wanted a progress report. Because we lacked a tracker, I spent time each day ta...