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Written by Dr. Andrew Makar
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As a project manager, we’re constantly communicating with project team members, sponsors, customers and other stakeholders. The communication often includes information from project status reports, spreadsheets and project portfolio management tools like CA’s Clarity. The type of information communicated is often facilitated with a screen shot. On a PC, pressing the ALT-Print Screen buttons to capture a screen shot is useful when other tools are not available, however, I often want to communicate a section of the screen without having to edit the entire image.
There are a variety of screen capture tools available including Techsmith’s Snag-It although my favorite PC tool is a free tool called Snippy. Snippy (http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/) is a 10 kilobyte executable that captures a section of a screen shot by clicking pressing F11 and selecting the screen capture area. It is fast, easy to use since it copies the screen capture into the memory buffer and is free! There are other commercial and open source tools that provide additional image editing but for a quick screen capture, Snippy is a must have PM tool.
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