> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:product-developers- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sidnei da Silva > Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 6:51 AM > To: Dylan Jay > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Product-Developers] Re: task/time tracking for multiple > clientprojects > > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Dylan Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks and if I did want to spend that much money then I'm sure its good > and > > its a plus supporting a company thats just down the road esp one with so > > many people I know who work there... > > > > but I forgot to mention preferences for opensource. > > > > Whats the next best opensource alternative? > > > > POI seems easy but is not multi project or use estimation. > > > > Scrum seems a good fit but martin's oi.plum is just a toy :( > > You have to consider that opensource != free. Are you planning to > extend your task/time tracking software yourself? How much that will > cost you in development time that could be billed to a customer doing > real work? > > We at Enfold struggled with open source alternatives for many years. > We *never* had time to maintain and extend our task/time tracking > software. Jira has every single feature I ever dreamed of and even > more. The productivity it enables is way more valuable than the price > it carries. > > Just my 3 cents.
Amen, Sidnei! FWIW, we've had tremendous success using Salesforce.com to manage our ~20 person nonprofit consulting practice... we track all of our (hundreds of) clients, donors/supporters, key contacts, projects, time entries, etc. in a moderately customized instance of Salesforce. We supplement this with lightweight client-facing instances of Trac and sometimes Basecamp, to manage the ephemeral in-project tasks that we don't need to remember for ever. Billable hours get logged in Salesforce, though. We, too, have experimented with open-source solutions (e.g. DotProject) and found them seriously wanting. :jon
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