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On Jan 25, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Samone E. Jones wrote: > Good afternoon comrades, > > I wanted to get the group's take on suggestions for good project > planning software. > > Ideally, I would like software that could allow users to manage > several projects and > allow them to get an overall "big picture" of several projects in > progress and identify possible conflicts. > Also I would like multiple users to manage centralized resources in > a networked environment and > be able to collaborate. > > I've already looked at Microsoft Project Professional and Project > Kickstart. > > Is anyone using Microsoft Project Professional in the server > environment with Microsoft > Project server - if so please share your experience. > > Also any other suggestions are gratefully appreciated. We use a series of free tools, which work fairly well for us, but might not be robust enough for you. We use bugzilla ( http://www.bugzilla.org/ ) for problem tracking and development tracking. It is has ways to list feature requests, problems, etc and have those each assigned to a person. It has many virtues. We use CVS ( http://ximbiot.com/cvs/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ) to keep track of the files we generate (99% programming source files). CVSWeb ( http://www.freebsd.org/projects/cvsweb.html ) is one nice web-based way we browse our repository. Bonsai ( http:// www.mozilla.org/projects/bonsai/ ) is another option we considered for viewing our repositories online. We also use the MoinMoin Wiki ( http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/ ) as a sort of generic knowledge base for the projects we work on. Additionally, as far as collaboration goes, we use our own IRC server for inter-group instant communication. It is handy for pasting snippets of code or URLs back and forth instantaneously. These tools, in concert, provide a fairly rich environment for keeping a pulse on our projects. It should probably be noted that there are *many* solutions of this nature available for free, I've just briefly outlined the software we use. ./matt -- m. kolb <[log in to unmask]>