Project Management

Does anyone know of a good project management software (online based)?

 

Here is a mature one: http://www.dotproject.net/
There is a demo on the site.

But i personally will try to use a forum (to track projects and issues) with m$ project (to track time, deadlines...) to manage my projects.

 

I wrote a blog post about this. Remember to check out the comments - there are some solutions in them.

Don't forget Trac, it's pretty decent.

 

Groove.net

 

For the ultra-low budget...I've found you can accomplish an awful lot of tracking, planning, etc. with just your handy-dandy spreadsheet. If you have Excel...fine. You can even use the one in Open Office. Works great.

Perhaps not as "full-featured" as a full blown project management system, but if you are on a shoestring budget you can make do til you can afford something more.

Probably obvious...but just thought I'd point it out.

 

Game Producer
I think http://trac.edgewall.org/ looks pretty good but don't know if that's exactly needed.

Mirage, not looking for cheap but rather good. I have a client that runs an open source project and they need an efficient way to track versions, handle bugs and handle releases. Just looking for an effective solution to manage this.

Any advice?

 

Okay then, let me go the other way...this is a MUCH more expensive option, so perhaps not applicable to the project of which you speak.

At my "day job" we use TeamTrack (by Serena). Personally, I like it a great deal. However, it is not a "plug-and play" solution. It handles all of your bug-tracking, issue tracking, release scheduling, etc. If traceabilty is your thing, it ties into their PVCS product.

In general, we enter a new project as a top-level "work request," and from there child issues are added to cover design, development, testing, documentation, etc. Each of these are broken down further all the way down to assignments to individual developers, tech writers, QA personnel, etc.

It has strong "work flow" features to the point where you can embed your own "process flow" into the tool fairly easily (but keep in mind that this can take significant amounts of time to do if your process is fairly complex).

You can attach work products to just about anything within the heirarchy, use its internal email gateway to automatically associate emails with specific work requests, and loads of other things.

What it is NOT is a product like "Microsoft Project." I am not aware of it producing "Gant Charts" or anything like unto it. It is in my opinion, however, excellent at handling the project's details and work flow.

It is web-based, so no pesky client-side installations to have to deal with.

It is not cheap, but it also was not as expensive as I feared it would be.

Support has been excellent as well.

No, I do not have any affiliation with Serena whatsoever. I just have come to appreciate the product. Again, there is a significant cost to it, and I do not know if they have a pricing scheme for small projects (I do not know what size of a project team you are speaking of).

Just another thought. Please do let us know what you/they decide upon, as I would like to expand my knowledge of systems in this area (I have looked briefly at some of the other systems suggested in this thread).

 

I've seen Serena, I think it's too bloated, sorry, no offense. http://trac.edgewall.org/ is a great example of a good piece of software but there certainly must be a comparable commercial solution or at least something more widely used. I mean, with the 1,000's of software projects out there, what do people use to manage the development process?

 

No offense taken. I only know it from a user's point of view...not an infrastructure/IT support point of view. Since it is of the class of "be all things to all people," the bloat aspect does not surprise me.

I am curious to see what other options are out there as well.

 

Freelancer Panel might be one option for you.

 

Actually, all these projects are internal so http://www.freelancerpanel.com/ will not work for this purpose, however, we do have another project which does require something very similiar to http://www.freelancerpanel.com/ and we were considering base camp so that might just be the perfect solution for our other needs Thanks man.

 

Glad to have helped partially. I don't know if you are an MS person, but you might take a look at MS Project for an application. I have not had the time to test Project Server 2007 yet but I have seen it in action and it seems to be pretty robust

 

Well, let me give you some more details. The purpose of this would be to help manage the open source project http://www.wtcbb.com/

Now, MS Project is good for internal stuff where everyone is in the same company but as you see from the above, this is an open source project, so need a means for people to submit bugs, now traditionally one would use bugzilla but hoping for something integrated. The other side would be to have source control whereby versions can be displayed online with coding available.

I imagine every software house has their own means of handling this but there I imagine is a standard out there

 

Well MS Project does have Project Server 2007 as well. That helps when users are not in the same area. But it might be a bit too much for what you need.

Bugzilla is the only other one that I am remotely familiar with... I have not really dealt too much with open source code but someone here might have a few more suggestions hopefully.