Friday, June 13, 2008

project management software

in my never-ending quest for project management software that will organize me, i've come across a few that might be worth a try. ganttproject seems to be focused on gantt charts, and can import and export ms project files. gnome planner (formerly from imenio) looks nice and does gantt/resource management, but i've read reviews saying it lacks too many features that ms project has and can't really replace it. opensched sounds very interesting, as it will do the scheduling for you, given tasks and resources. it produces latex reports, too. but it looks like it hasn't been updated since 1999. projman sounds like it has scheduling capability and import/export compatibility with gnome planner, but i can't find out much more about it. xplan looks ancient and crappy. (developed in an all-sun environment? come on, i don't think sun develops in an all-sun environment.) taskjuggler looks like one of the most feature-rich os pm packages out there. i'm particularly intrigued by the mention of 'risk analysis'. i've also had my interest piqued by descriptions of chandler. from their docs, it sounds like a dream come true. but i've also read bad things about their own project management. doesn't bode well when an organization software project seems disorganized.... but i'll give it a look.
EDIT: they finally kicked 1.0 out the door, just before daddy warbucks kicked them out the door. but then the blog abruptly stops in mid 2008. wonder if it will keep going in the foss wild.

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