There are indeed a huge number of them - before sending this email I had checked out the tours and/or online demos for at least 8 or 9 of them, which is why I gave up and decided to try here - none of them actually did what I described.
Ultimately those are all great tools (to some degree ;) ) for managing projects, but not so much for prioritizing multiple projects and seeing how that impacts scheduling/ resourcing... that's what I'm really struggling to find. I'll look through the list in that link and see if I can find any that do that. Thanks, Nicholas On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Brandon Burton <[email protected]> wrote: > There are soooo many web applications in this space it isn't even funny. > Most of the open source ones, such as Project Pier or dotProject are built > on the MS Project model of GANNT and a sort of "waterfall" approach to > project planning, aka Enterprisey. > There are plenty of more "agile" products, most termed Web 2.0, to some > degree or another, take a look at something like Basecamp, LiquidPlanner, > Copper Project, Zoho Project (free accounts), or Clocking IT (open source > MIT License), > > The only free/open source desktop apps I know of are GANNT Chart (Linux > only, I think), TaskJuggler, and OpenProj. > Take a look at http://delicious.com/tag/project+management+software > or http://www.whybasecampsux.org/#alternatives > I hope that helps! > Brandon > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Jim Hickstein wrote: >> >> > When I last evaluated this (admittedly over 10 years ago), we chose >> > something that we decided was better for us than MS Project, and I >> > used it quite a lot. ... ooo, what was that name? (Josh, Hal, Luke: >> > any of you guys remember it? It had a native Mac client, I remember >> > that. And the server piece didn't require Windows. Circa 1995, >> > probably vanished without a trace. But if it survived it should be >> > rather interesting now. >> >> http://www.sharedplan.com/macproject.html >> >> I think that this may be the descendant of what you remember. I know >> there's something still around (or at least it was around in 2006), >> because I helped write waivers for permission to have macintoshes as >> servers (corporate bureaucracy sucks). >> >> Hmmm... I'm not positive on the above link, but if no one comes up with >> the answer, I'll ask my fellow sufferer in that endeavor the question. >> It was some nice stuff, whatever it was. >> >> -- >> Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. >> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, >> by definition, not smart enough to debug it. >> Brian W. Kernighan >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
