Project Management Tool

#1 Iteamwork.com

#2 Http://www.aceproject.com/

free for up to 5 projects, 30 tasks and 5 users...
More than that and you have to pay.

NOTE: I'm using this even for a project where I'm the only developer. It is a good idea to use something like aceproject to keep track of your progresses and to have set deadlines

Ciao Gustavo

#3 Thanks guys, helped me a lot!

I'll take a look in the both tools.

Thanks,

Gustavo Boni

#4 Also you may want to check out http://www.phpoverlord.com. It does cost ($20 one time fee) and it works very nicely.

#5 Wow Chip =)

Very nice tool! Unfortunally it costs 20 bucks =(. But it's very nice, maybe it worht the price.

Thanks

#6 It's worth it :) Plus you get the PHP source code, so if you're familar with the language, you can expand on it.

#7 @ Chip I love the fact it calls the people you work with Minions...

#8 Ya it's definantly worth the price... also Jacob deserves the money for his hard work... he made the staff tools for our ghostgames site... this tool was already really great and worth 20$... this is quite more worth!

#9 I've been a big fan of using NetOffice (netoffice.sourceforge.net/) to manage my projects. It allows you to add users, tasks, assign the tasks, keep a bulletin board and file section as well as being able to set up tracking of the progress of all the tasks and the stages of the overall project.

In addition, you can create MANY projects from the same install, so you can have your game, and your class project on the same server if you choose (or your trilogy of games as the case may be.)

Best of all, open source and free as in air.

-Ibrahim Chishti
www.game-slingers.com

#10 I've been playing around with a fork of Netoffice called "Netoffice Dwins". It's pretty good if you're managing a distributed team, however for my own use it was missing a few too many features. The main one been automatic resource scheduling.

Until I find a better solution, or those features are eventually added to Dwins, I'm sticking with the good old RTF file. Bit of colouring, and indentation is about as much task managment as I need. Obviously not really suitable for a collaborative project, but solo its good enough :) Less time managing the task managing software means more time developing.

#11 For personal management OmniOutliner (mac only) + kinkless GTD is a nice task manager. it's made out of David Allens "Getting things done" which is a great book by the way. :)

#12 We're currently using dotProject. I've tried to adapt and like it, but it's fairly buggy and it seems like it takes way to many clicks to get stuff done. Plus it's trying to be everything and the kitchen sink (although you can disable some modules). Currently i'm looking for alternatives myself and haven't found any.

Right now i'm using this technique to sketch out my schedule before adding it into dotProject.

#13 Well there is also http://www.basecamphq.com they have excellent software over there

#14 I saw Basecamp... it looks great. The problem is that i cannot install it on to my own server. I just don't trust putting sensitive NDA'd client information on someone else's server.

#15 Good point!

#16 You could use Nuke-Evolution or something and install the WorkBoard module.
Unless your one of those 'Nuke means bad' guys.

#17 I suppose this thread is old at this point, but for anyone reading, we used to use Bugzilla at a power company I worked at to keep track of tasks in the project. It works well for simple things, imo. And I think it's free.

#18 www.elementool.com free and paid versions

#19 I have to agree on the comment regarding dotproject, it was good at first but now it's quite slow and buggy :( Looking for alternatives myself. Alienbrain is really good but really expensive for what it is http://www.alienbrain.com/

Cheers,

#20 I just started using basecamp myself, it does the job so far.
http://www.basecamphq.com/