In 2005, when my team grown from single digit to double, I wanted to use some web based tools for project management, issue tracking etc.
Basically I want to start this as an experiment basis, so that I can talk to my management to get budget later on.
Interstingly I found many tools in “open source” and after several tries I got dotproject for Project Managment and Time sheet & Mantis for Issue logging and tracking.
Onething I had problem was, as windows user I have been addicted to the installers and never bothered about configuring anything. But when it comes to open source, I found it difficult, lot of them are still manual. You have to read the readme.doc carefully, install and configure. That’s the challenge I had.
But today when I look back, both these tools are really wonderful and I had never looked at some other tools after that because of the comfort. Both these tools are used extensively in my team.
Start ups, small & medium companies can definitly use tools like this and do better production & management.
dotproject – www.dotproject.com
Mantis – www.mantisbt.org
I have one more – Forum. Will write about that shortly.
yup, dotProject is the most leading project management application (PMA). as project management software, dotproject also have really intuitive user interface, including to do list, project list, and project report.
you can also read my letter about dotProject in Indonesia by visit my open source blog