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Project Management is often defined as the science of organizing, planning and managing the available resources of a particular organization to successfully complete a project, which aims to meet the organization’s goals and objectives. This type of system will be useful in ensuring the timely and effective output of a project. Furthermore, the implementation of such a system will give you greater productivity in every project.
To guide you in the proper implementation of this system, we give you 20 project management tools that you can use either for personal or commercial purposes. Read through the instructions and overall overview of implementing such system for more insight towards this program. You may be surprised at how easier things will become if the tips and techniques given in this post are followed accordingly? Get started!!!
1. Huddle
Huddle.net provides all the collaboration, sharing and project tools you need to get your team, partners and clients working together.
2. Planzone – Collaborative Project Management Software
A user-friendly tool, that keeps track of your projects, create blogs & reports, you can even manage yout tasks and share documents and files.
3. 5pm
This is used to track how far you are with your projects. An online tool where you can customize your reports and is also available on mobile phones, so you can keep track of your projects wherever you are without the hassle of bringing your laptops with you!
4. CoMindWork
Not only that you can keep track for the progress of your projects, it also gives your clients the idea of how long will the project be finished. You can also send emails and post the progress of your projects, where clients can easily view.
5. Entry.com – Integrated suite for Project Management
A powerful combination of project managemen and help desk software that keeps projects on track and at the same time, provide support and track IT issues.
6. Intervals
This is another online tool to streamline task, time and progress of your projects. NO need to install and a user-friendly application! Take a look.
7. WORKetc
You can keep track of your projects, help customers, bill your customes and get paid faster, and can even share documents without email! Check this tool!
8. ProWorkFlow
ProWorkFlow combines project management, workflow and time tracking into one application. It is able to keep accurate time-tracking records. For those who like to manage projects on the go, ProWorkFlow even has native iPhone apps for you!
9. Zoho Project
Zoho Project brings your team members together and centralized the project management into one place. The Project Wiki feature lets user create and publish webpages, embed videos and other media.
10. Claromentis Project Manager Sofwtare
This tool provides gantt charts, project resource allocations, where your team can share project-related resources and keep track of your projects’ progress.
11. Bamboo Project Management Suite
With Bamboo Project Management Suite, you not only that you can keep your projects on track, you can also automate and manage notifications to your team members to keep task status up-to-date.
12. ClientSpot
A tool organizer for your projects and files. This tool also track conversations and can even manage client data, you can also share files and track your tasks and time for your projects.
13. OnStage
With onstage portal, you can easily manage and track your projects, and even conversations real-time, you can also upload files, and also customizable.
14. PlanningForce
This tool helps you maximize your work, keeps track of history, and saves time for your project calculations.
15. Assembla
A tool that tracks your projects, add and manager team members, and even monitor activities and share infomations with your team.
16. Attask Project Management Software
You can customize your dashboards, monitor progress of your projects, and allows you to import and export MS project files, with this project management tool.
17. Wrike
This optimizes projects and keeps track of your work, you can even manage your projects on this tool! Check this out.
18. Tenrox Project Management Software and Workforce Management Solutions
This tool accounts for project costs and revenues. NOt only that, this also helps you keep track of the progress of your projects. Check this out!
19. Timetonote – Free, Simple, Fast and Elegant CRM
It is a tool for tracking customer, suppliers, and others.
20. SantexQ
This is a time tracking and billing tool in an all-in-one package. It keeps track on your projects and manage your billings, with a customized reports from your team members.
If you are enjoy reading this article, why not head over to look into our previous articles about blogging tools and also image optimization tools, which we think might bring benefits to you too.
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Dicky, thanks for featuring Comindwork in your round up of project management tools. I’d just like to add that we have a big amount of features available including advanced ones like custom processes creation, custom reporting, powerful file management. And users can enable/disable features as needed keeping the user interface simple and clean.
Thanks for sharing! As a creative agency, we use a robust program: http://bit.ly/9hQOdf Client and Profits. These programs above are very useful as we’re looking for something to compliment our robust program, to help with the smaller, everyday tasks.
PlanningForce has just released a new website dedicated to Express Premium for small businesses, http://www.planningforce-express.com
Our Windows-based tool, TaskMerlin, provides GTD-friendly project management for personal users and teams over an office network. See our online tour at http://www.taskmerlin.com/tour/start.aspx for more information.
Here’s one more
– http://www.subernova.com
This is also good collection as your previous one “Blogging Tools”
I suggest you take a look at DeskAway. We have a free plan for freelancers and small teams. The upgrades are reasonable too.
hello, this may be useful, compiled here are over 90 project management tools for quick reference ..
The Marathon List of Project Management & Collaboration Tools (Over 90 Tools)
http://blog.decode10.com/2009/12/13/the-marathon-list-of-project-management-collaboration-tools/
How can you miss out Basecamp by 37 Signals? It has much wider usage than most if not all of the apps mentioned.
And it’s an awesome tool too.
i use project pier its free, you can host it your self and theres a great basecamp like skin for it.
I also like a tiny tool, IzzyTodo.com, it’s handy and helps to organize work a lot.
Good list!
Our company has been using http://www.doolphy.com for some time now and we’re very happy with it. The application is in Beta version and can be used for free. There is no limit in the number of users or the number of reports that can be created. It is helping us a lot with the management of our tasks. I recommend it.
Best regards.
I use Liquid Planner http://liquidplanner.com for project scheduling and collaboration. AFAIK, it’s the only SaaS PM tool that allows for realistic scheduling. That is, instead of choosing arbitrary “due dates” for tasks, Liquid Planner encourages realistic estimating by asking for both the Best Case and Worst Case estimates. Add a really fabulous user interface and you have a powerful and informative tool that helps you make good decisions.
So many to choose from, so many that did not make the list. Which is the best?
give ZCOPE a try … http://www.getzcope.com
best regards,
thomas
Incredible ! You forget basecamp !? http://www.basecamphq.com
I’m a big fan of Action Method ( http://actionmethod.com/ ) which didn’t make the list. Fantastic interface, iPhone app, free for non-profits, and built by designers for designers–it’s from the people behind http://Behance.net
Great list, upcoming is freedcamp.com a completely free project management solution!
+1 for for http://www.5pmweb.com.
You forgot to mention http://www.projectbubble.com it is amazing web app for project management and invoicing.. 100% FREE..!!
Thanks for sharing the list.
However, all the tools mentioned above are web solutions and it is well known that they cannot serve you well when you are dealing with big projects and numerous resources. This is because of the fact that most web pm tools have only the basic features which is insufficient for big projects.
Thus, here come in hand the well known desktop solutions that pretty much cover all the needs for this kind of projects: MS Project, Seavus Project Planner…
Great collection as always. Thanks
Here is another one and it’s FREE … for now
http://busylissy.com/en/
Awesome Post!
Thanks for the information that you have shared. Here is Side by side comparison of few of the PMP training providers as per my knowledge.
http://www.rohitprabhakar.com/2010/02/14/pmp-provider-review/
Hope this Helps!
Best
Rohit
I second Lisa’s recommendation of LiquidPlanner, for all the same great reasons. LiquidPlanner is also an excellent collaboration tool, so will have all the advantages of A Basecamp-like system with real scheduling tools that Basecamp and many others are lacking.
Can I also add to the mix http://manymoon.com? We use it everyday and love it — plus it has the big advantage of offering a ton of features for free.
This makes me laugh because the software my old agency spent thousands and thousands on is not in this list. Too bad they didn’t see this first.
I made this one of my three links on my Design Thought for the Day blog:
http://designthoughtfortheday.blogspot.com/2010/02/02-16-dpi-truth-web-design-101-project.html
All the best, Ted
Is the list ordered by importance of the tool (e.g. what you think is better?)
I’ve used a few of these like ClientSpot and Basecamp, but they all seem to have some minor flaws. I’ll have to dig deeper to see if any of these can meet all my requirements.
Awesome… I don’t know which to try first! I guess from the top huh
What about Redmine ? (cool, free and open source!) http://www.redmine.org/
Redmine is cool. Thanks for introducing it to us. It makes our list more complete!
You’re welcome Dicky.
We are using Redmine for years. We are also using it as a community portal for our open source projects: http://www.iptechinside.com/labs
Very good writing, Thanks for sharing! Just saw this inspirational quote and wish to share – “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” Enjoy your day!
Haha, great quote! Yup i admit, we always make simple things complicated. Maybe due to our job stress?
What do you think of Activecollab ?
http://www.activecollab.com/
We use it since one year and it’s really good but it would like to implement Gantt charts or import MS Project File…
Hi Gobi,
So do you use any other project management tools? Do you compare Activecollab with others?
We never use Activecollab before. But from the pricing table an the release notes, seems like it is a good choice
Hi Dicky,
We worked a little with basecamp but I think Activecollab is more complete and you can buy a “standalone” PHP version that you can host on your own server, can be good if you’ve many projects and want to keep an eye on your files and setup backups.
You can record your timesheets, files sharing and it has a mobile stylesheet… many other features we don’t use yet.
We still use Merlin which is a project management software on Mac OSX (MS Project like) to build our Gantt Charts and then we create it in Activecollab.
We had spend time to choose that solution, try many demo of other softwares : e-groupware… and it’s the best solution for our business for the price.
Hi,
Thanks for sharing your experience with us! I admit that the “standalone” PHP version will give you more controls and you can host everything on your own server. This is really good if you have a lot of projects. But i can’t find any link to the “standalone” version?
@Dicky : “Full source code is provided in both licenses, which means that you can tailor activeCollab® to fit your business needs perfectly.”
-> http://www.activecollab.com/pricing
Hi,
Haha, didn’t notice it.
i hope so
Some good applications mentioned here.
Hopefully the next list you compile will include our application that was just recently released.
Crossing my fingers,
Drew
Hi Drew,
Thanks for sharing your site with us. Maybe it is too new and that’s why we can’t found it through Search Engine yet.
Thanks for including Wrike in your list! Just to let you know, we’re soon releasing an iPhone app, so more people can stay productive with Wrike even on the run.
Hi Daria,
Great news for iPhone user! How about Android App?
You can also try RationalPlan a project management software suite.
If you’d like a tool for managing your time and projects, you can use this application inspired by David Allen’s GTD:
http://www.Gtdagenda.com
You can use it to manage and prioritize your goals, projects and tasks, set next actions and contexts, use checklists, schedules and a calendar.
Comes with a mobile version too, and with an Android app.
Hi Dan,
Thanks for bringing this great tool to our readers. The best thing is that this tool comes with an Android App.
Try out the SaaS my3plive. Supports project models and methodologies!
Wrike is an absolute winner for me, great functionality and very intuitive interface. It’s so handy to have all the workflow in one place, nothing gets lost.
Thanks for the info, I have been using #8 ProWorkFlow for a while. I recommend it.
Wow thanks so much for including us! We’re glad to be a part of such a great list.
Cheers!