Hi,

I work for a small web development company (3 team members) and we are looking to implement project management software. Can anyone give recommendations? I have been looking around at the various options and I am quite overwhelmed at the moment.

I require the following:

• Ability to handle multiple projects easily. Ability to see an overview of all projects as well as an overview of each project.
• Ability to schedule tasks automatically based on resource availability across all projects (as tasks often change). This is resource levelling I believe. 
• Tasks to be flagged and highlighted if overdue.
• Each team member to be able to see exactly what they need to work on on a particular day.
• Ideally we would like a web based solution as we all work from home and need instant access to all information.
• As I manage all the projects I need to see a quick overview of them all.

Any recommendations would be most appreciated!

Are there any project managers for web design/development companies out there that have implemented project management software already? Any tips or information? Thanks.

Basecamp is a must if you want simple, cheap and quick to get running 'task based' software that's accessible via the Web. After all, task based management is the foundation of PRINCE 2; the ultimate project management methodology.

My staff us Basecamp while the project managers use an excel sheet for matrix management of resources across multiple projects. I can send you an example of this off-list if you like as it's very simple to create but very powerful. If you need to manage more than 22 people across more than 15 projects at any given time, you need team leaders or project controllers.

BTW, Mozilla use Basecamp for their projects so what does that tell you?!

Hope that helps
Paul

Please provide me with your email address and I'll get someone to send it to you.

Cheers
Paul

On 10:40:40 1 August 2006 cardew12 wrote:

Thanks for your help. I have signed up for the trial of basecamp and I am checkign it out now.

Paul, Yes, if you could send me an example of the list that would be a great help. I had looked at basecamp but was worried it didn't have adequate resource management. Do you want me to give you my email address or are you able to upload it as a link from this thread? Thanks.

Another one to try is www.hotproject.com we have been using this for a couple of years now and it rocks.

I work for a web design and development agency so we neeeded a system that both we and our clients can use. Our developers track their tasks, calendars with it, the account managers use it for managing files and amends with the clients, and the designers for sharing their ideas. A common phrase in our office is "I couldn't work without Hot Project!"

It has similar features to the 37 signals product BaseCamp, and a few more features beside. Definately worth checking out. And Microsoft Project was just too hectic for our needs in a small development team.

Hope this helps,
Phil

Take a look at www.iplanware.com. We are based in the uk and offer onsite and on demand software.