Project management software

From RBOSE

Project management software is a term covering many types of software, including scheduling, cost control and budget management, resource allocation, collaboration software, communication, quality management and documentation or administration systems, which are used to deal with the complexity of large projects.

This page has been created to choose/design/decide/work on the project management systems for the community. Please join also IRC channel #pms to work directly with people interested in this subject.

Contents 1 Task: Make the decision about using PMS 1.1 Initial objectives 1.2 Required specific functions 1.3 Proposed solutions 2 Task management on personal and group level 3 See also 4 External links 5 TODO

Task: Make the decision about using PMS

Initial objectives

Let's define the needs and criteria for a preferable software:

• flexible enough to meet different needs and not only target software development
  • functionality configurable by members of specific projects, for example by providing user defined fields which also can be at any moment enabled or disabled
• efficient and intuitive interface
• lightweight and fast
• updates published through different protocols (irc, email, xmpp)
• system integrated with the rest of environment
• search box to look for projects
• tags to dynamically categorize projects
• system which encourage people to contributions, rather than to flood with requests (for example by showing ratio like: 1000 developer/ 157 tester/ 34 features requester)

Required specific functions

• tasks
• historical record
• bug tracker

Proposed solutions

Waiting for evaluation:

• Redmine, original Website: http://www.redmine.org/ (set for testing at http://pms.rbose.org/)
• Flyspray, original Website: http://flyspray.org/ (set for testing at http://fs.rbose.org/)
• ClockingIT 2.0 http://www.clockingit.com/ (the demo on that page is actually not cit v2 but v0.99.3)
• Wiki extensions:
  1. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Tasks_Extension (installed, simple, stable, seems flexible enough to develop further, seems supporting flat organization)
  2. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:IssueTracker (working almost like a self standing application, what limits usage of embedding tasks within content, targeting bug tracking)
  3. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Todo_Tasks (buggy, offering similar functionality like Tasks Extension, but through additional extension and set of templates)

Task management on personal and group level

See also

• OS Project Management System suggestions (probably needs to me merged with this page)
• PMS structure 1
• Repositories

External links

• Project management software at wikipedia
• Comparison of project management software at wikipedia
• Best Online Collaboration Tools 2009 (might contain closed software)

TODO