Web-Based Project Management Tools?

zbignew asks: "I am working on a Web-based project with four other people spread out at various geographic locations around the world. The work is picking up and we are hiring again and the new people are also likely to be at new locations. To help keep workflow organized we are looking for some kind of a tool to track tasks, issue resolution and things like that. It must be Web-based. Are there any good ones out there? We will pay if we have to for quality."

More details on the type of project?

[crisco]

Maybe if we had a few more details on the type of project you're working on we'd be able to better reccomend some stuff. You mention a web based project. Pyra [pyra.com] might be a good one to take a look at. It lets you set up a tree like hierarchy assigning tasks to multiple users and set different permissions to modify items to different users. Pyra is in beta and I've had one glitch with it though. From Webapps [editthispage.com] comes ITeamWork [iteamwork.com] and MediaLot [medialot.com]. I haven't checked them out but they look promising. You might look at Zaplets [zaplet.com]. While heavily hyped, this looks a little too consumer oriented to me. The PHP Projects site [php.net] mentions some task management systems. You could probably easily customise these to fit your needs. Zope [zope.org] might also be worth checking out if you want to customise something. Their Squishdot (Slashdot clone) is easy to set up and might be appropriate for your needs. And there might be other more appropriate Zope modules available for project management.

Re:More details on the type of project?

[crisco]

Sounds like you're further along than I am. My biggest problem is getting other people to use anything at all aside from email. I thought Pyra might be a good start because it looked so simple but it lost my test project so I've lost faith there.

The rest of the urls were just flung at you, haven't tried them. :)

Re:More details on the type of project?

[zbignew]

The project is a website built with PHP with a MySQL backend. we currently use CVS and email to coordinate efforts. But the boss wants to see something more organized... i have some training in MS project, etc. What I would like to see is a web-based tool that basically does what Project does and hopefully better. We are also looking for a tool that would track support calls. that is people can send an email to support@ and it would get logged automatically and then also log when the response went out and when it was considered resolved, etc. I'm also looking for your personal experience. although if you want to just fling urls at me i guess i can't stop you.. :-)

Re:Project Management software FAQ

[zbignew]

Last-Modified: $Date: 1997/09/19 07:53:06 $

um.. that FAQ seems a bit old.

Search engine results...

[dlc]

Did a quick freshmeat search [freshmeat.net], and found a few. Hotbot returned "fewer than 1000" results for "web-based software management software [lycos.com]" (exact phrase). Topclick has 61 results for "web-based project management software" [topclick.com] (with quotes included); Google also returned 61 for the same query [slashdot.org], although the order was different.

Sorry about just pasting in URLs -- I don't have any first hand experience with any of them.

oh yeah, er, um, first post.

darren

Cthulhu for President! [cthulhu.org]

Project Management software FAQ

[Ragetech]

There is a Project Management Programs FAQ [faqs.org] you'll probably be really interested in. It isn't all web-based, but you should look through it. Also there is some project management web-based software at this address [wproj.com] seemed to be excellent when we evaluated it.

If you just want time tracking software, check out this site [onshore-timesheet.org] and this one. [journeyx.com]

Good luck!

techwatcher

[techwatcher]

Some months back, while I was searching for information about the free source code movement, LINUX, and GNU, etc., I found a site (almost new then) which offers precisely the facilities you are seeking, albeit specifically for collaborating source-code writers. I didn't have need for it then, so I didn't note the URL, but you might try searching on these terms, also, to find this site. It looked good, and was possibly free (at least, very affordable)!

One word (ok, maybe three): ACS

[Seb]

You may find what you're looking for in ArsDigita Community System [photo.net] (ACS), a GPL-ed toolkit for building RDBMS-backed Web sites with "collaborative dimension".

It needs AOLserver (free, open-source) and Oracle 8 (not free, not open-source). You may also be interested in InterBase [lavsa.com] or Postgres [benadida.com] port.

Ticket Tracker [photo.net], ACS module, may come very handy for managing tasks/issues/resolutions.

How about Sourceforge?

[Mr. Penguin]

Just a suggestion, but how about using Sourceforge [sourceforge.net]? The accounts are free, they give you web, ftp, CVS, and shell account access. They're hosting hundreds of projects now, and I haven't heard any complaints. If you want to do something on your own servers, though, you can get Sourceforge's source code for free, too.

Brad Johnson
--We are the Music Makers, and we
are the Dreamers of Dreams