Dec192012

Which is the best project management software?

brokennth asks:

Which online project management software has proved very valuable and productive for you and your team this year?

I’m looking to choose between the following:

  • Basecamp
  • Microsoft Office
  • AtTask
  • Central Desktop
  • Celoxis
  • Wrike
  • HappyTODOS
  • Huddle
  • Team Work
  • Podio

Which should I go for?


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Chris Powell

December 19, 2012

I will suggest Microsoft Office..

Chris Powell
dailydealbuilder.com

Kamaleswar Boro

Thanks Mr. Chris for your response. Have you tried anymore from the list besides Microsoft Office?

December 19, 2012
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Junil Maharjan

December 19, 2012

We have a software called Collabtive at office, looked great but i didn’t use it much. Here’s a review from makeuseof http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/collabtive-a-free-open-source-project-management-software/ and here’s another on for flow.io http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/flowio-group-project-management-software/

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Thomas Petrucha

December 19, 2012

If youre a Windows user … Viso & Office should be perfect.
For more visual elements and a little more overview basecamp is ok.

Kamaleswar Boro

Thanks Mr. Thomas for your lovely response.

December 19, 2012
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Eath Chantrea

December 19, 2012

Microsoft Office Project Management 2010

Kamaleswar Boro

Thanks@ Eath.

December 19, 2012
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Âdil Farôôq

December 19, 2012

Microsoft Office i haven’t used any other so i recommend Microsoft Office Project management….

Patrice

People without experience of PM soft anwser automatically Office. Office is the lowest end in term of Project management and reches very well its target, non project managers.
For me Intelligent planner (Augeo) and Clarity ar far beeter thant MSP but of course they require some experience as a PM.
No offense, just facts.

December 31, 2012
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DanishDo

December 19, 2012

Bitrix24.com is probably the best out of all listed here. Wrike is second best.

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Rajaa Chowdhury

December 19, 2012

MS Office is not a project management software in the strict sense, it is a office productivity software from Microsoft. For that, the offering is Microsoft Project 2010, which is a well-known and established product.

Have you tried the following :

Zoho Projects (Free software, web based ) : http://www.zoho.com/projects/

Primavera : http://www.oracle.com/in/products/applications/primavera/overview/index.html

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Irving Rambaud

December 19, 2012

Majority wins. Microsoft Office..

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Douglas Mutay

December 19, 2012

As a MS Office user,I can only recommend you what I have used. But, I took the time to search for other program based on your list and found Teamwork Project Manager to be very good. I wish I could test it also.

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Hank Roze

December 19, 2012

Try HappyTODOS (http://www.happytodos.com). Here is what MakeUseof has to say about it: http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/happytodos-project-management-for-managers/
Goodluck.

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Mac Witty

December 19, 2012

If all users are on Windows maybe that will be good
If you have a mixed group I would go for Bascamp

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JohnDenham

December 26, 2012

I think its better you go for proofhub. It have nice features which are easy to use and understand.

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Dhan

December 26, 2012

The options you have listed are too broad (e.g. basic To-Do list to enterprise-grade, cheap to costly, desktop based to web-based/hosted, single user tool to collaborative). Essentially what will work for you is your the best PM tool. So I would suggest you to pen down your must have requirements from PM tool and then look for the tool that meets your expectations.

I would still suggest our own tool, ZilicusPM http://www.zilicus.com
Whichever tool you may select, beside required functionality, I would suggest you to check for
1. How intuitive/easy it is to use, for normal team member
2. Does it provide clear, useful dashboard that shows real time status
3. If you are planning to use web-based/hosted system, check whether it delivers faster performance or not

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Alexandre de Andrade

December 27, 2012

I use http://www.clockingit.com
Check it out.

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Sam Collab

December 27, 2012

I have used a couple of PM apps listed above, the one I use and find most productive for my team is binfire.com , it combines all features needed for project management plus collaboration tools to make a nice virtual office. Since my team is distributed it helps us to get the job done faster.

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ha14

December 29, 2012

The Best Free Online Project Management Software
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2380448,00.asp

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Tech Nech

January 21, 2013

Check out Asana or freedcamp. I am using them both and they are pretty much good till now!

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Ramya

January 24, 2013

You may check out Asana/ Zoho Projects. Both are impressive and good for small and big teams.

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Forrest Campbell

February 1, 2013

Of the ones listed I have used Podio for some time now. It does everything I want it to do.

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