I’ve been working on a project recently that could take me about 6months to complete so I started looking around for some project management software to help me out. Now I loath Microsoft Project. Not so much because of its features but more so because of the people that I have worked with who have abused it! It seems that people can’t help but make a mountain out of a mole hill with that thing. So I kept looking.
I found an open source solution called www.dotproject.net that looks not too bad. It has lots of features to it, it is web-based and it seems to have a good user base. If I were running a project completely online I would consider using this one.
Then I ran into www.Axosoft.com and I think it is just great. It is billed as a bug tracker but it also has project management features to it. Here’s what I think is cool …
- the single-user version is FREE, great for solo guys like me
- it has both a windows client and VS.Net plugin for it
- it uses SQL server to store data
- it has a web interface that lets people outside your project provide feedback
- the UI is very clean and simple and un-overcomplicated (is that a word?
This is my choice and I’m going with it. I’ll keep you posted.