One of my favorites is OpenAtrium (www.openatrium.com). It’s built on top of the Drupal framework so it’s got a solid codebase and community behind it. Also, take a look at a blog post I wrote on comparing a few open source project management apps. A…

A good open source project management system is OpenAtrium (www.openatrium.com). It was built on the Drupal code so it’s already got a solid community behind it. Also, check out this blog post I wrote comparing five different open source project manag…

If I had to choose one I would tell you to pick Open Atrium. This is because they are likely to have the biggest development and support community behind them (being built on Drupal).

Good luck!

Thanks

Cheers

However, I really like what I’ve seen with Open Atrium. It does a lot of the same stuff as Trac but the flow seems more current to what we are familiar with in more current apps. It is a little easier on the eyes and will be easier to install for those familiar with PHP.

Look, ticketing systems are great for service desk applications, where you have continuous delivery of small fixes, but that’s *not* a project.

What you have here is a review of ticketing systems, some of which have some additional features that might help in a project environment.

AC is nice but it is too expensive for most people, especially since the Small Biz doesn’t make sense for most people.

It is ideal for web based projects and handles remote client/remote team easily.

Clean and intuitive user interface and provides support for all software development artifacts including wiki integration.

http://endeavour-mgmt.sourceforge.net/

Available On-Demand as well.

http://www.jingho-projects.com

there are probably still som bugs in it but it works :-)

thanks!
Gido

Nice to see a PM list that stirs away from the usual boring ones like dot Project, etc.

I wasn’t aware on Retrospectiva and Open Atrium. Gonna have to have a go.

The git integration in Retrospectiva looks cool.

Thanks!

I’ve had a good deal of success using JIRA to track code sprints and longer-term milestones. The permissions system allows a great deal of granularity.

There’s a lot of integration with other open source tools. There are plugins within JIRA for associating tickets with source control commits, it integrates with Mylyn in ecilpse (and NetBeans has native support for it), Hudson has a JIRA plugin as well, etc.

Some of the more interesting agile practices have plugins written for JIRA now, including GreenHopper, which allows for a sticky-note board within JIRA itself.

Definitely worth a look (and review).

Specifically, you must estimate time for completing tasks and record actual time to see if you are on time and on budget. If the client adds scope, then you need a way to record those tasks as either future requests for another phase, or change requests/orders that will increase the schedule and price. For managing many projects at once, a dashboard view across projects is good along with associated resources so you can forecast resources and see overlapping commitments.

I fell in love with the UI of ActiveCollab (not open source, but ‘install yourself’ model at a one time low price), but again it fell under the category of an org and collab tool.

Thanks for the review as I am constantly searching for more efficient PM tools.

Using JSF, Hibernate, Spring, JBoss RESTEasy, PrettyFaces, PrettyTime, and other emerging technologies.

It’s still in its infancy, but is easy to use if you are familiar with Agile/Scrum. It provides full access to all functions through REST based SOA, so if you just want to use the base platform for your own interface, you can, but the interface is relatively simple and straightforward as well.

Feedback appreciated!
–Lincoln

Openproj is interesting in that it provides a much needed .msp reader too.

HTH

for project management see http://www.agilefant.org/