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Top Online Project Management Planning Tools
By Amarendra Bhushan for CEOWORLD Magazine Updated:December 4, 2009
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Wide range of Online Project Management Planning Tools available, the key to selecting the right one is understanding that different tools are needed along the different stages of a project life cycle. Good Project Management is one of the keys to a projects success.
Project management software solutions don’t require a large budget anymore. Although lots of alternatives to major solutions are available on the Internet, finding the right tool for your needs might be a complex process.
Project management includes developing a project plan, which includes defining project goals and objectives, specifying tasks or how goals will be achieved, what resources are need, and associating budgets and timelines for completion.
Traditionally, project development includes a number of elements: four to five stages, and a control system. Regardless of the methodology used, the project development process will have the same major stages:
1) Initiation,
2) Planning or development,
3) Production or execution,
4) Monitoring and controlling, and
5) Closing.
A must have fetures for Web based project management software:
1) Gain control of your projects
1) Dashboard and Reports
3) Track bugs, issues, risks
4) Track Resource Utilization
5) Track Time and Expense
6) Share files, discuss on-line, schedule meetings
7) Design customized business processes
Project management should follow simple process:
1. Agree precise specification for the project.
2. Plan the project – time, team, activities, resources, financials.
3. Communicate the project plan to your project team.
4. Agree and delegate project actions.
5. Manage, motivate, inform, encourage, enable the project team.
6. Check, measure, review project progress; adjust project plans, and inform the project team and others.
7. Complete project; review and report on project performance; give praise and thanks to the project team.
I’ve picked up a few useful tools to keep projects organized and to help with project initiation and communication.
Zoho have the innovation, precision, and patience to build robust, rich, and effective web applications that work in any mission-critical business environment. Zoho team listens to every suggestion, is responsive, and flexible.
Teamworkpm
You can create new projects, manage existing projects, view a milestone schedule and keep informed on the latest activity across your projects. create the worlds most productive online project management system. Deliver our software to as many companies and organisations around the world as possible.
Clarizen is a leading global provider of collaborative online project management software that allows businesses to easily manage all of their projects and resources in a single environment. Clarizen’s online project management tools facilitate true team collaboration and project execution, ensuring data is always up-to-date and aligned with business objectives.
Springloops is a unique source code management tool focused on web development teams. It allows you to code in parallel and share your code safely concentrated on results, not on lost changes or overwritten files. You get rapid collaboration in protected space.
CreativePro Office
CreativePro Office is the most complete set of online office management tools you’re likely to find at any price – and it’s completely free! Manage your team, clients, projects, invoices, events and quotes from one web-based application.
Jumpchart
No Kahuna
Whether at work, home, or among your friends, we help you work together on projects big and small. Simply: Set up your project(s), refine and distribute tasks, track them as they’re completed. There’s no fuss, no unnecessary features – just an easy, intuitive and reliable way to make sure everyone does their bit.
14Dayz
A simple web based time tracking tool for groups of loosely connected individuals that collaborate on a professional basis. 14Dayz is great for teams that are geographically distributed and still need a central place for logging their hours. But other teams can use it as well. 14Dayz is ideal for telecommuters.
ActiveCollab
ActiveCollab is a project management and collaboration tool that you can set up on your own website. Have an area where you can collaborate with your team, clients and contractors and keep projects on track while retaining full control over access permissions and your data.
Livetimer
LiveTimer is as a desktop application in Mac OS X. This can be done quite easily with the help of a great, free utility called Fluid. We find this to be a superior experience to using a widget, because with LiveTimer always visible in your Dock, you can easily see whether your timer is running and for how long. Plus, you can access the full power of LiveTimer with a single click.
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JIRA
JIRA lets you prioritise, assign, track, report and audit your ‘issues,’ whatever they may be — from software bugs and help-desk tickets to project tasks and change requests.
Autotask
Autotask goes beyond Gantt Charts, task lists and milestones. It includes data from all parts of your business, so everyone in your company is working off “the same page”.
Huddle
Huddle combines online collaboration, online project management and document sharing using social networking principles.
Prioritytrack
PriorityTrack improves how people work on improvement by giving groups a very efficient way to communicate and evaluate ideas for any kind of project. PriorityTrack makes creating and following up on actions plans incredibly easy.
For years project management software was about charts, graphs, and stats. And you know what? It didn’t work. Pictures and numbers don’t get projects done. Basecamp tackles project management from an entirely different angle: A focus on communication and collaboration.
Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management.
Dimdim is a free web conferencing service where you can share your desktop, show slides, collaborate, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required to host or attend meetings.
WhoDoes 2.0 is the new version of the web-based application for the collaborative management of projects
and coordination of the team.
Teamspinner is a flexible tool to guide your projects. Teamspinner does not constrain the structure of your projects and organization. With Teamspinner you can easily work together on a project with an outsourcing party or a freelancer without the need to expose anything else.
Deliver your projects on time and on budget. Plan, staff, track and monitor everything to do with your programmes, projects and sub-projects.
Vertabase is the an off-the-shelf solution with an impressive feature set, perfect management and reporting solution for our needs.
16bugs lets you manage your bugs from a simple and productive interface. From a single account you’ll be able to track your activity on the whole 16bugs network: companies you own, bugs assigned to you and bugs you sent.
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Marty on Fri, 20th Mar 2009 8:55 am
there are hundreds out there, and yours is a decent list, but I'd say you missed up-and-comer LiquidProject with a unique handling off elastic deadlines, and market veteran Tenrox for enterprise-level project management
online project management tool on Fri, 20th Mar 2009 9:05 am
Another good online project management tool is SantexQ, it's web-based and does straightforward task and time management really well. a new version just came out not too long ago with billing features. for those interested it's http://www.santexq.com
ceoworld on Fri, 20th Mar 2009 9:36 am
HI Marty,
For detail list pls visit:
http://ceoworld.biz/ceo/2008/10/24/top-best-of-...
This is my selected top applications.
All the best!
Sarah on Fri, 20th Mar 2009 9:51 am
Too bad 5pm (http://www.5pmweb.com) didn't make it into the list.
John on Fri, 20th Mar 2009 4:09 pm
Another great tool for online project planning and tracking is Intervals. It is a lot like many of the products listed here, but like them, has its own way of getting things done.
Rinku on Sun, 22nd Mar 2009 11:05 pm
I use DeskAway as my PM tool, I wonder whether you have used that.
They have free plan which allows 3 projects and 5 users, moreover the free plan does not expire! Many powerful features and affordable rates.
http://www.deskaway.com
Mark Phillips on Mon, 23rd Mar 2009 6:49 am
Thanks for the shout-out on Vertabase project management software.
Project Management hut on Mon, 23rd Mar 2009 8:39 am
Most of these tools are extremely similar in both functionality and interface. It always amazes me how many small businesses out there are tapping into the Project Management Software market.
John on Tue, 24th Mar 2009 5:16 am
I feel DeskAway should have been mentioned here. It is an excellent project management & collaboration tool.
Dan on Tue, 24th Mar 2009 8:26 am
If you would like a tool to manage your small business activities and Projects, you can use this web aplication:
http://www.Gtdagenda.com
You can use it to manage and prioritize your Goals (for business but also in other areas of your life), Projects and Tasks. It has a Checklists section, for the routines and repetitive activities that any business has to do. Also, it features a Schedules section and a Calendar, for scheduling you time and activities.
Features from GTD are also present, like Contexts and Next Actions.
And it's available on the mobile phone too, so you can access it from anywhere.
Biljana Pesevska on Wed, 25th Mar 2009 2:10 am
ProjectOffice.net is an online project management tool that should be included here as well. Many features that set a new dimension of pm software.
Profit Tomorrow on Thu, 16th Apr 2009 4:51 pm
This is another helpful tool to internet businessmen like I am… Time management and a productive tool that would make the business be optimized to its fullest
bobvogel on Fri, 4th Dec 2009 10:37 pm
Thanks for including Autotask in your list of top online project management planning tools. I just wanted to clarify for everyone that Autotask is a completely integrated business management solution designed specifically for the IT services market. In addition to Project Portfolio Management, the hosted solution includes a robust Issue Management (service desk) module, full CRM, Time Tracking Billing, Inventory, Outsourcing and more starting at just $29 per month per user. Thanks again for including us in such great company!
dina_g on Sun, 6th Dec 2009 9:09 pm
I think what Marty meant to say was LiquidPlanner, and I agree that it has a very powerful scheduling engine, taking into account the uncertainty that we all need to have in our project schedule. Why setup a project schedule with hard dates and then have it become irrelevant once the project gets going (or a huge pain of a task to keep updated), LiquidPlanner has this covered in addition to many other valuable features (ones mentioned above, and more)
http://thecriticalchain.blogspot.com/2009/05/st...
Arturas on Sun, 6th Dec 2009 11:50 pm
An interesting list, though i don't believe that all these tools feature your own criteria like customized workflows. One thing I would definitely include as a must have for a powerful pm tool – ACL permissions, simply a must for big projects. It will soon be launched with the new version of our http://www.comindwork.com
project management tool on Tue, 8th Dec 2009 6:46 am
Thanks for the extensive list! With a myriad of options to choose from, it’s no wonder why choosing a project management tool has become such a daunting task.
Andrew Macdonald on Tue, 8th Dec 2009 5:36 pm
Thanks for the useful list of tools and descriptions.
For those of you interested in similar lists of online (or desktop) project management software, I’ve compiled lists and reviews at the Task and Project Management Software List.
Note: also includes to-do list and GTD software.
MiddleWay on Mon, 14th Dec 2009 6:30 pm
Project Insight is definitely worth a mention, too. Although not a regular employee, I contract with the company that makes it to interview their customers (both huge and very small companies) for success stories, and what they all say again and again is that it's got the more advanced features like intelligent scheduling that PMs need while giving the regular team members the Outlook and Project integration that makes it easy to get up to speed. I'd guess most of us have worked on projects where there was a manager pushing a new PM system and half the team wouldn't even log in to enter their time because of new-app fatigue. I've used Harvest and Basecamp and while those are fine for to-do lists, Project Insight definitely has a lot of power for not a lot of $$.
snehaandani on Wed, 16th Dec 2009 12:50 am
Great Article. Have you tried out Injoos Teamware. I would reckon that they have the most comprehensive integrated collaboration platform. With their latest release they have added a new twist to track and execute projects “the social way”. Checkout their Blog http://injoos.com/blog/2009/10/09/seamless-coll...
Cynthia West on Thu, 17th Dec 2009 3:05 pm
Just to add one more web based project management solution to the mix, Project Insight. Project Insight is more of a mid market portfolio and project management software solution. We offer intelligent scheduling (a la Microsoft Project), so if you have 1 or more savvy project managers that want robust functionality, yet ease of use. This could be the right direction.
Web Based Project on Tue, 5th Jan 2010 3:11 am
Success of any project is dependent upon how the manager is leading the project. Employing web based project management tools are a way to assist you end-to-end with your project. Plenty of tools are there that enables punctuality of activities with effectiveness like search time widgets, account user number tools, and search groups.
Web Based Project on Tue, 5th Jan 2010 10:11 am
Success of any project is dependent upon how the manager is leading the project. Employing web based project management tools are a way to assist you end-to-end with your project. Plenty of tools are there that enables punctuality of activities with effectiveness like search time widgets, account user number tools, and search groups.
SydneyCoyle on Fri, 11th Jun 2010 3:47 am
Great picks! This web crm comparison complements your story and may be valuable to your readers as well –www.worketc.com/compare. Softwares you mentioned are put side by side with top competitors and alternatives in a checklist type comparison.
copperproject on Mon, 14th Jun 2010 4:48 am
With Project Management Software it really is a case of which system suits your business requirements best. As a vendor in this market we know too well that there are numerous options and alternatives out there as shown in another of ceoworld's earlier write ups > http://bit.ly/cZsH3p
If you are after a simple and sleek User Interface (UI) and User Experience, with functionality that packs a punch, then check out Copper Project, Online Project Management Software (SaaS). http://www.copperproject.com