I¹ll be interested to hear what other people say on this. I personally hate Microsoft Project with a vengeance Haven¹t seen many people recommend it for managing software projects, so I¹m not sure I¹d start there (although it does produce pretty Gantt charts!).
I¹m using Trac right now for some projects. It is NOT the tool for reporting or higher level overviews and is limited even for bug tracking by things like the inability to have a ³review² workflow for QA. I know it is widely used, I love the svn and mylyn integration, and as a solo dev or small team on simple projects it is good, but I don¹t think of it as a complete project management solution. It¹s a barebones bug tracker that gets out of your way while allowing you to keep track of what you¹re doing. I like it, but I think more is often required. I¹ve heard rave reviews about Jira from various places. Supposed to be good for reporting as well as task management. Free for OSS projects, $1200-$4800 per server for commercial licenses. I¹d love to hear peoples reviews. If you¹re into Agile, check out Buildix from Thoughtworks. Svn, trac, cruisecontrol and ³mingle² (their agile user story management system) all pre-integrated. Free for teams of less than 5 and looks interesting, but I haven¹t heard any user reports back yet. Also sites like http://lighthouseapp.com/ provide a web2.0 front end onto a project management system. I think the right such site could be pretty good although as with all start ups, look into how you can back up the underlying data in a programmatically useful format. Of course, you could also roll your own. I know Russ Johnson has his project management thingie and svn viewer. Pinged him about it the other day to check status and see if I could get involved, but not got any feedback yet. Anyone else looking into/using anything else? Best Wishes, Peter On 12/6/07 5:41 PM, "Baz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone using a project/code management tool that they are happy with? A > tool that manages the assignment of low-level tasks all the way up to giving > managers a high-level view of the status of projects. Microsoft Project comes > to mind. Maybe even Trac, or RedMine or Gira. I know a lot of companies have > in-house solutions - IBM is famous for their RUP based tool. Some tools are > SDLC focused, providing mechanisms for requirements gathering to testing and > deployment. What is everyone using? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CFCDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfcdev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
