Hi,

I am not aware of any but could make you something quick-and-dirty if you want for a low price.   Get in touch if interested.

regards,

Denis
www.naxtech.com

Trac, from www.edgewall.com is similar to Jira, not sure how much it costs but think it would be cheap if not free.  Sarah

On 10:26:50 31 October 2008 amandamay wrote:

On 14:59:50 30 October 2008 DavidWilliams2 wrote:

I am looking for a recommendation for a free project management tool, or one that has a low licensing cost. I know of JIRA, Fogbugz, basecamp, but wonder if they are heavy duty.

this is for client side and is effectively a place for the web and marketing team to log issues and content changes and minor developments on the website. i am guestimating around 6-8 users of the tool internally.

any ideas? 

We started using basecamp a month ago - 20 internal users based in the US and UK - it seems to be pretty good so far and is a great way of finding out the status of projects in different teams.

Try www.huddle.net - similar to Basecamp but more powerful and with better features (e.g. not automatically emailing everyone in the group when anything is added to the project!)

Not only that, but it's a UK start-up with lots of good press and they've just launched some handy tools like LinkedIn integration, an Adobe AIR app for desktop integration and they have an API too, so you can build it into your own systems.

There's a free option, but you only get one workspace. If you're a charity, it's free with 10 workspaces. Cheapest plan after that is £10 per month. I've used it for a while and heartily recommend it, certainly over Basecamp.

thanks to all who have been feeding back about these tools, from having investigated on some of these suggestions, I have liked the look of basecamp the best, thanks all
 

On 11:00:22 3 November 2008 CompoundMedia wrote:

I use basecamp for all my client projects and it's really simple to use.  I don't use the Writeboard or Chat functions that much but the rest of the functionality is ideal for people with little project management experience.

It doesn't do Gannt charts but then most people don't read them anyway.  I use the To Do's organised into weekly lists assigned to individual and the milestones to show the key points in the plan.  I don't use the messaging section as a replacement for email as some do but for anything that requires client sign off, it keeps track of the discussions which is really useful when things have been publicly agreed.

You'll quickly use up the free space allocation if you're uploading designs or large files but it's still quite reasonable if you have a limited number of projects running at any one time.

Mike