While the monitoring phase of a project may have fewer moving parts than the execution phase, there are still some great candidates for automation, such as resource tracking, scheduling, reporting, and sharing project information.

Resource Tracking: Project management software can help automate resource tracking, from employee time to budget to physical inventory. Display these metrics in a dashboard alongside other relevant project information for a quick status update.

Dashboards: Project dashboards are useful during all project phases, but are especially important for monitoring project health and aggregating ongoing data sources. Use dashboards to compile information visually, display it in real time, and share it with stakeholders to view at their leisure.

Reporting: Create and schedule ongoing reports based on information from your dashboards to share with stakeholders, even months or years after the initial project execution.

Schedule Meetings: Automatically schedule meetings based on ongoing project data, or reschedule them when there has been little change since the last one.