Open Source Project Management Tools (AKA "How will you know it's broke, if you don't know where it is?"

How will you know it’s

BROKEif you don’t know where it is

Options in Open Source Project Management

What

featuresare must-havein your project management tool

Are you tracking internal projects?

…or external projects?

Is there a PMO?

Are you managing business operations projects?

…or IT projects?

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Are you usingtraditional methodologies?

… or managing Agile projects?

So many tools, so little time.

Open source, no usage limitationsCommercial & community Actively developed in last 12 months

Whoa, that’s still dozens.

Joomla 3 Drupal Community Ed. 9.2.5

Feature Category Feature Description ProjectFork Pro Open Atrium 2 EasyRedmine ProjectOpen Redmine Project.Net

Collaboration Discussions/Forums

Collaboration Wiki / Knowledgebase 3rd party Addon Lite

Collaboration Chat 3rd party 3rd party Addon Not active 3rd Party 3rd Party

Core Collaboration features

Core Document management

Core Document versioning

Core Calendars

Core Notifications / messaging

Core Project templates

Core Timetracking

Core Task Management Plugin

Core Milestones Plugin

Core Recurring Tasks 3rd Party

Core Task Lists by Milestone 3rd Party

Core Multi-language

External PM Invoicing 3rd Party 3rd Party Lite

External PM Ticketing / Helpdesk Addon 3rd Party

Integration Import/export MS Project Addon 3rd Party Planned

Program Mgmt Program level management features Lite Lite Lite Lite

Reporting Project budgeting

Reporting Gantt charts

Reporting Advanced management reporting 3rd party 3rd Party

Narrowing down the field

Etcetera, etcetera…

Advantages DisadvantagesProject budgeting

Baseline feature

Repositories (GIT)

AgileDwarf available

Established

No resource planning

Light on Program mgt

3rd Party addons:• Advanced task mgt

• External projects

• Advanced reporting

• Mobile

Usability

Advantages DisadvantagesUsability

Interactive Gantt

Mobile / responsive

Addons for:• Wiki

• MS Project import

• Resource planning

• Helpdesk

Cost (especially addons)

Light on Program mgmt.

Recurring tasks

Document versioning

No Agile enhancements

DareI call a project tool

?cool

Advantages DisadvantagesCollaboration

Runs on Drupal 7

ACL & Privacy

Mobile / responsive

Usability (D&D)

Beta 3 released July 2013

Focus shifted from v1.0• Task management weakened

• Recommend JIRA integration

Reporting

External & IT PM

Gantt charts

Advantages DisadvantagesCollaboration

Joomla 2.5 & 3.x

Usability (D&D in 3)

Document mgmt

Mobile / responsive

Reporting

Light program mgmt

IT PM; No Agile / scrum

MS Project import

Some external PM• Invoicing

• Ticket / Helpdesk

unique Design Panel feature

Advantages DisadvantagesPMI would be proud• Earned Value reporting

• Project initiation phase

Program management

IT service providers• ITIL based

• Helpdesk

• SLA performance tracking

• Config & release mgmt

So big, it hurts

Recurring tasks

Test case management

Mobile (3rd party)

Usability

Agile / scrum Consulting Projects User Stories Sub-projects Tasks Tickets + tasksBacklog Timesheets + ticketsSprints Software Release module

Advantages DisadvantagesCollaboration

Import from MS Project

Program management

Workflows

Project templates

Advanced reporting

External PM

IT / Software PM

Mobile

Internal Projects

External Projects

Business / Ops

IT / Software

Traditional /Waterfall

Agile / Scrum

PMO / Program Management

PRO Project.net Community

Indicates very strong in this area

Deb Cinkus,CEOTHE POLISH

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PolishedGeek.com @PolishedGeek

Donald Champion,CTOTHE GEEK

[email protected]

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