August 12, 2009
10 Best Project Management Tools
Posted under Uncategorized by Thursday Bram
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These days, you won’t always have immediate access to everyone who works on a given project. Maybe some aspects are being handled by freelancers. Maybe members of your team work remotely. Maybe you just aren’t in the office today. No matter how your team is distributed, you need to be able to assign tasks, share files, and manage your projects from anywhere. These applications offer the ability to do so from any Internet connection.
- Basecamp: Considered one of the most popular project management applications online, Basecamp offers a very easy-to-use interface that allows you to manage your projects. You can even give your clients a certain level of access to your Basecamp projects in order to get feedback on progress.
- DeskAway: With tools to track projects as well as what your team members are working on, DeskAway focuses on showing the progress you’ve made on a project. You can easily share information with your team, even scheduling events or posting to a shared blog to make sure everyone is on the same page.
- Goalkeeper: You can choose different plans with Goalkeeper, meeting the different needs of a freelancer or individual or a larger business. The tool offers a variety of collaboration tools as well as the ability to track bugs and other problems, making it a particularly useful tool for product-oriented projects.
- Copper Project: While Copper Project has been out there since 2001, it has undergone numerous upgrades. It’s focused on making paperless project management possible, even down to managing budgets and tracking time use.
- Project Spaces: With Project Spaces, you can quickly set up a new project, creating email lists and RSS feeds to stay in touch with team members as well as stakeholders who aren’t closely involved but do need to be kept up-to-date. It also provides a workspace for sharing documents and files.
- Huddle: Especially useful for creative projects, Huddle offers a variety of features that can make a difference in the speed of approval for a given aspect of your project. You can also use the application’s tools for live conferencing to make sure all your communications are in one place.
- QuickBase: You may be familiar with the maker of QuickBase, Intuit. The company has brought its experience with business software to the table, creating a project management tool that can scale from a small business to a large company easily.
- Central Desktop: A project can require more than a few meetings, but Central Desktop makes it easy to handle those meetings along with the other steps of completing the project. In addition to standard project management tools, the application offers the ability to put together a web meeting or webinar in the same place you normally work with your team.
- Thinkature: If your collaborative process relies on mind maps and visualizing steps of the project, Thinkature can make creating and managing shared mind maps as easy as every other part of your project management. It also includes the ability for voice chats as you develop your mind maps.
- Octopz: For those projects that require the ability to share edits of media beyond documents, Octopz provides the ability to edit a variety of media, including videos and animations — you can manage those documents between different team members without having to upload new versions of particularly large files.
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Tags: Project Management, Project Management Software, Project Planning
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August 13th, 2009 at 5:45 am Vote:
Thanks for featuring DeskAway, appreciate the support.
August 19th, 2009 at 5:31 am Vote:
[...] Project Management Tools – SaaS, Open Source and else These days, you won’t always have immediate access to everyone who works on a given project. Maybe some aspects are being handled by freelancers. Maybe members of your team work remotely. Maybe you just aren’t in the office today. No matter how your team is distributed, you need to be able to assign tasks, share files, and manage your projects from anywhere. These applications offer the ability to do so from any Internet connection. via smartlifeblog.com [...]
August 19th, 2009 at 1:00 pm Vote:
Recommend to try my favorite web based project management tools called “5PM” – http://www.5pmweb.com
I think is a great alternative for known SaaS like Basecamp, Huddle and etc.
August 20th, 2009 at 10:37 am Vote:
[...] Für die Arbeit an gemeinsamen Projekten ist es heute häufig notwendig, viele zum Teil auch entfernt voneinander arbeitende Teammitglieder zu verbinden. Moderne Projekt-Management-Tools ermöglichen das ohne Probleme. Hier findet man eine Auswahl von 10 solchen Tools. [...]
August 20th, 2009 at 11:03 am Vote:
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August 20th, 2009 at 11:18 am Vote:
Hallo.. ich vermisse ActiveCollab das es auch in Deutsch gibt.
August 20th, 2009 at 1:01 pm Vote:
You forgot one, which is open source:
http://www.todoyu.com/en/screenshots/
August 20th, 2009 at 1:23 pm Vote:
A couple of mentioned ones are not really popular, but half of the mentioned ones are well established products. I assume they are listed in no particular order?
I would definitely include 5pm (http://www.5pmweb.com), for example.
August 21st, 2009 at 10:42 am Vote:
[...] only knew Basecamp as the no.1 of the 10 best project mangement tools Toolshttp://smartlifeblog.com/10-best-project-management-tools/ [...]
August 24th, 2009 at 6:28 pm Vote:
Another web-based project management tool worth consideration is Intervals.
August 24th, 2009 at 6:54 pm Vote:
Ah, Intervals looks pretty cool.
August 24th, 2009 at 7:07 pm Vote:
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August 26th, 2009 at 6:01 am Vote:
DeskAway seems to be the best among all these tools.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:20 pm Vote:
Hey, cool Project Management tools!
I would like to add GanttProject. It is a pretty nice and easy to use tool and of course free
cheers,
August 28th, 2009 at 6:10 am Vote:
Have a look at ZCOPE – http://www.getzcope.com – it especially focuses on the communication in the (remote) team and tries to overcome emails. Good luck for this goal
September 9th, 2009 at 5:51 am Vote:
ClockingIT (www.clockingit.com) free & open-source, has it all.
Gantt charts
Projects, tasks, task history, tags, clients, chat rooms, forums, email reminders, multilingual interface, etc… Only con : no iphone app
September 10th, 2009 at 10:02 am Vote:
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October 29th, 2009 at 5:08 am Vote:
Thanks a lot for a great list and summary of each service. It really helped me pick the right one for my project.
March 2nd, 2010 at 11:24 am Vote:
Thanks for this list.
I would recommend Ganttzilla.
Great tool.
http://www.ganttzilla.com
It includes complete set of features for web-based creation, editing, viewing, discussing, versioning, secured sharing and publishing of project plans.
By the way it’s free.