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Project management software recommendation?

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Mon, 2012-05-07 12:49
brazil farnandis
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Now that our team at SFSU is getting bigger and starting to handle some longer term projects such as integration with Diva (http://diva.sfsu.edu/), Drupal, and/or e-Portfolio system and so on. We really need to have a good project management software solution to help us keep track of all projects. I wonder whether the Moodle core dev team (or your own dev team) is using any project management software at all, and if so, which software you are using? I was using Microsoft Project when I was working for the private sector, but would like to know if there is any good open-source project managment software out there? Many thanks!

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Tue, 2012-10-02 14:51
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isabelle lepez
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Dear Brazil, 

The best first steps would be to gather your requirements as "Project Management" is a wide term.

If you want to take a look at our solutions, I would recommend to discover OnePMO (http://www.onepmo.com) that is natively multi-project oriented. You can manage, schedule both projects and resources and keep track of their progress while being able to compare planned Vs. achieved.

Please let me know if you would like to know more - you can reach me by email (isabelle.lepez at onepmo dot com)

Isabelle,

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Sat, 2012-09-01 06:49
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PJ Icasas
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If you're looking for a web-based solution, you may want to consider Easy Projects. Our collaboration features like video chat and file sharing are especially helpful if some of your team members are off-site or working from home. You can sign up for either a free trial or a webinar. Or both. :)

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Fri, 2012-08-31 14:15
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Gray Foster
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A good project management software that we use in our company is called Basecamp, try to avail their trial offer so you can see if the feature works for you.  Now for order management software, I recomment WRNTY www.wrnty.com, this is what our company use for over a year now and we are very pleased with its features.  It also has a trial offer that you can avail for free.

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Wed, 2012-08-15 14:42
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Stephen Devaux
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Does Invantive Vision compute critical path drag? If not, it's a pretty big omission. As far as I know, only Spider Project and the Sumatra.com add-on to Microsoft Project calculate it.

http://www.dau.mil/pubscats/ATL%20Docs/Jan_Feb_2012/Devaux.pdf

Fraternally in project management,

Steve the Bajan

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Tue, 2012-08-14 09:00
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J Bijzeit
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I would recommend Invantive Vision. Invantive Vision is not open source but is easy to use. U can easily add professionals to your projects and manage the task, hours registration and more. The software is web based and can be used with Microsoft Outlook. In this tutorial you can see how project management with Invantive Vision works.

Discover our site for more information

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Sat, 2012-05-19 00:50
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Patrick Weaver
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There is a list of tools, many open source at: http://www.mosaicprojects.com.au/Planning.html#Tools

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Sun, 2012-05-20 12:23
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Rafael Davila
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I would recommend Spider Project. The website http://www.spiderproject.ru/aboutus_e.php

Some highlights about this software:
  1. The software is not open-source but it is scalable. Different versions for different user needs.
  2. The software provides a free reader so anyone with access to the files can read the files though not edit them.
  3. Same as most enterprise application you can set up user rights to control who have access and who can edit what.
  4. There is no need to back up a monstrous database but individual files that might change while others might not. Each user can setup his own portfolios and define the users right so you need not to have a full time administrator as user will take care of their individual portfolios.
  5. Each user can setup for Spider to auto-backup their jobs providing redundancy. This will allow individual users to recover lost files without intervention of DIVA administrators. This process is lightning fast, on the background and invisible to the user. So easy even the default is for auto-backup.
  6. It takes about 2 minutes to install on each computer, no brain needed just an available finger to make a couple of mouse clicks.
  7. The main brain behind the software development is available at this site. Just explore Spider Project forum.
  8. Different to other enterprise software the individual project files can be stored on different folders. The following illustration shows how project files belonging to the same portfolio can be stored on different folders.
  9. You can download a free demo from their website and make some test runs as to see how the files can be stored and saved within DIVA with no intervention of IT other than the control of DIVA user profiles. 
  10. The developer provides special pricing for academia.
  11. You can use freeware http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/15/featured/5-free-project-management-software-free-alternatives-to-microsoft-project.html for stand alone jobs and import them into Spider but be reminded that 100% compatibility between two software is a fallacy, in such cases the recommended practice is to import/export only once. MSP is somewhat limited so for some jobs exporting to a higher level software might be a must. Suggest using Spider for all your Portfolio Jobs while Open-project for the individual user that will administer their own small jobs independently from any portfolio. Do not expect freeware to be as good as full and original versions.
Photobucket The decision is yours but do not use perception only, it can be deceiving, try it and ask others, especially to those in need of advanced functionality. 

Best regards,

Rafael

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Mon, 2012-05-14 10:07
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Tony Bocock
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I would recommend Project Monitor. The website : http://www.viragegroup.com/en.html

The software is not open-source, but is not so expensive ! it gives a much better ROI than many of the "global" solutions which do not offer such powerful yet flexible custom portfolio management functionalities.

Project Monitor has been adopted by some of my customers to manage large portfolios including strategic and ROI reviews. 

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Mon, 2012-05-14 10:07
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Tony Bocock
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I would recommend Project Monitor. The website : http://www.viragegroup.com/en.html

The software is not open-source, but is not so expensive ! it gives a much better ROI than many of the "global" solutions which do not offer such powerful yet flexible custom portfolio management functionalities.

Project Monitor has been adopted by some of my customers to manage large portfolios including strategic and ROI reviews. 

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Thu, 2012-05-10 06:53
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Raymund de Laza
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I would recommend P6..... P6 is a very powerful PM software if it is used as intended and should be administered by a True Technically and Broad minded person.
 

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Wed, 2012-05-09 21:02
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Mohammed Taha
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My company has been very happy with 4project system http://www.4projects.com/

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Mon, 2012-05-07 12:56
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simran lobo
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I would recommend continue using ‘Microsoft Project’ else upgrade to Microsoft Project Professional 2010 which includes all the capabilities of Project Standard 2010 plus more features like at-a-glance resource management and team collaboration tools. Project 2010, built on SharePoint 2010, offers flexibility and choice and helps effectively manage any type of work, from simple tasks to complex projects and entire programs. It is a big jump in capability and gives project managers a lot of visibility into project conflicts, overbookings, and under-utilization.

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