Comments on: Free / cheap / open source project managements systems — recommendations?

By: aadis

aadis — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 06:58:42 +0000

My thumbs up for trac too. We sued it in our previous startup (before I joined yahoo) and it’s really good.

By: Sumana

Sumana — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 03:44:59 +0000

Chad! It’s Sumana, who arrived at Salon after you left! I saw a link to your site from Scott Rosenberg’s weblog; thanks for explaining some things about Duke for me.

I work at Fog Creek now and spend a lot of my time selling FogBugz, which ships with source and is focused on being incredibly easy to install & use. You can do a free trial to see if you might like the workflow & featureset.

Have fun in Bangalore! Kannada for “a little” is “sulpa” – if you are trying to gracefully decline third servings of food, try “sulpa sulpa.”

By: Keith Casey

Keith Casey — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:15:21 +0000

I’m a core member of dotProject, so I’m horribly biased, but I’ve been working and poking at the community to find areas to make improvements.

One of the most important – and written by my company – was the MS Project Importer. It allows you to do all your project planning in the style you want and then the import keeps all the task assignments (matched by username, then First/Last name), the deadlines, milestones, etc.

By: Ian Kennedy

Ian Kennedy — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 23:21:45 +0000

If you’re looking for something specifically focused on QA management, take a look at Byrne Reese’s Test Run (http://testrun.majordojo.com).

By: Charlie Wood

Charlie Wood — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 21:56:03 +0000

DreamTeam is free for individual use or $10 per user month for the Professional Version, and $35 per user month for the Enterprise Version

http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?NavCode__c=MF2h&id=a0330000000GI9YAAW

Then again, you’ll need a $1,500/year Salesforce.com Enterprise Edition license to install it. :-)

-c

By: Isaac Garcia

Isaac Garcia — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:01:13 +0000

Central Desktop has a free version.
http://www.centraldesktop.com

By: Simon Willison

Simon Willison — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:55:35 +0000

I absolutely love Trac. It’s more than just an issue tracking system (it has Subversion repository browsing and an excellent wiki as well) but the issue tracking fits my brain really well. We use it for Django: http://code.djangoproject.com/

My favourite feature is the timeline, which shows recent checkins, ticket changes and wiki edits all in one place: http://code.djangoproject.com/timeline