Rookie here, and I hope I'm not posing questions that have been addressed a bazillion times (I've searched a bit and don't immediately see them in history).  

I'm trying to choose a software platform to track progress of tasks across 25+ similar projects, with a pool of 20+/- resources (people).  I don't need detailed time or expense tracking, and my crew won't respond well to a complicated platform, so MS Project Professional may be more than we need.  But I do want to give it a good chance before going elsewhere.  Two critical features I'm not immediately seeing in that platform are:

1. the ability of resources to input their own progress or % complete on tasks (perhaps from a stripped-down version of the platform)
2. user collaboration (discussion, file uploads, etc.) tied to tasks

Feature #1 is important to us for a number of reasons, one of which is I don't want to become a bottleneck as the dedicated progress-updater-guy.  Feature #2 matters because we're pretty team oriented.  Even though one person is responsible for a task, others may need to offer input.

I'm also evaluating TeamGantt (www.teamgantt.com) as a potential platform.  It does these two things well, but not as robust as MS Project in other areas like reporting, task relationships, and automatic rescheduling.

So my questions are:

• Am I missing MS Project capabilities in these two critical areas?
• Any input on other platforms (TeamGantt or otherwise)?

Many Thanks!