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Everyone knows about what is project management. It’s nothing but planning, organizing and managing the resources.But how to do? What is the right way to do it. Are there any tools available for project management and collaboration. How these tools can be useful and what are the features. These are the things we are going to analyze in this article. We will see best project collaboration tools available on web to manage projects easily.
Projects were generally managed by creative architects and engineers themselves. Major process steps are initiation, planning or development, production or execution, monitoring and controlling . To handle these process number of approaches are there like:
Teambox is listed first because it’s the application we are currently using for 1stwebdesigner, but don’t let that sway you. This is a place for your team in twitter like project collaboration tool. You can share tasks, messages, attach files and Notification by email.And also it’s an open source project.Teambox offers up to three projects free and offers 2000 projects for premium plans.And it’s very easy to use.
Advantages
This is a project management,Collaboration and task web-based tool trusted by millions of users.The features are Share files, Meet deadlines, Assign tasks, Centralize feedback, Basecamp tackles project management from an entirely different angle: A focus on communication and collaboration. They have some extras and addons also.Four price planning is available , Each and every plan has30 days trial period.
Advantages
A project management and collaboration tool.It will make your work and cooperation with your team, clients, suppliers and others much easier. Useful to keep projects on track, Email support, Extend and integrate of modules,Collaborate,Save time.And new added features are invoice,subversion integration,Global documents,Drag and drop task management, Improved visual editor and much more…
Advantages
It’s an online project management, project collaboration,Task & issue tracking software.Easy to use for virtual,distributed and global teams.The main reasons why you have to use Deskaway are simple & affordable,Less email clutter,Delegation and tracking, Control is in your hand, Nothing to download and install,Backup of your data in daily basis,No risk and little more.Please read their FAQ’s and it will be very useful before your picking this tool.
Advantages
Web-based project management tool that helps managers,staff and clients work together more productivity online.Stay on track,Share & collaborate,work faster and host it yourself.you get room for 2 projects, free storage space and you can instantly upgrade to a paid plan at any time.
Benefits
5pm is an intuitive web-based project management tool.It is flexible and easy to use.you can request a custom plan here through mail.Backup your data nightly.256-bit high grade encryption for data security.Desktop tracker widget is available.Filter users in time line and much more features are available with multi language support.
Benefits
Project planning,management and tracking software.Can easily track your project.It gives you the full insight to your business.Your project plans are always up to date.30 day free trial pack is available for plans.Outlook synchronization,Windows mobile sync, icalendar and rss feeds are available for a reasonable price.
Benefits
Free online idea management and collaboration service.It’s a web-based service first to avoid your ideas being forgotten and organize your ideas.It’s already being used by more than 40,000 users.With the help of this tool, you can store your ideas, manage and organize them, collaborate with your friends over your ideas, etc. Wridea provides you all required tools and services for organizing your ideas.
Wridea Features
A centralized place where relevant project documents and contents are stored, updates are posted, everyone exchange ideas and get work done.Top reasons to choose ZOHO projects.Beyond your planning …get projects done,Planning,Works smarter,Reporting and value for your money.The updates of ZOHO are project stream, Dedicated wiki, Group chat MS project integration.Free for one project with unlimited users.
Features
Team collaboration,Project management,File sharing and task software.Your business and communication can be more efficient and better organized.Easy file sharing,A free version forever, not just for 30 days. Plus, an unlimited number of users at no extra cost!
Technical features
Source code management tool for web developers.You can do code in parallel and share it safely.Ultimate work flow,Easy management,Unique code browser and Basecamp integration are the main features in this tool.It’s free for 100MB only.
This is an online to do list and task management.You can manage tasks quickly and easily.Get remind anywhere and you can locate your tasks here too.Remembermilk providing more number of services for their users like sync with Blackberry, Gmail, Android, for twitter , Manage your remember through google calendar and third party applitication or services etc…
Tools for Collaboration,Communication,Tracking and project management too.Comindwork SaaS improves the knowledge work productivity in projects performed by teams in professional service firms (e.g. software, advertising & marketing, consulting, lawyers, NGO) and by divisions within enterprises (e.g. support, marketing, R&D, upper management).More benefits for project manager, to team and for your clients.Free for 20MB
Customizable features are
Central desktop “Over 375,000 users around the globe rely on Central Desktop every day to accelerate their business, connect their people, and manage their projects.” Free usage for 25 MB.
AJAXworkspace offers more than 10 powerful online project management and collaboration features such as project dashboard, tracking software, task management, document management, file sharing, and discussion board.It consists of an integrated suite of simple and easy-to-use collaboration functionality.This is an ideal tool for any type of project management regardless of whether you are working in a company or a freelancer from home.
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Let us know what are your favorite project collaboration tools and tips.
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2012 05:43
I recently signed up in arcilook.com, for me cosketch tool are amazing! Most simple system to manage.
Monday, April 9th, 2012 08:10
Very useful list!
However, I am surprised you didn’t mention TransparentBusiness. I have been using it in my company for some time and its simply amazing. It is also a cloud-based tool and tt has huge benefits over most of other existing tools.
It has a time tracking feature that lets you have a rigorous control over your workers. The tool will take regular screenshots of the workers computer screen while he is working, so that you can review the hours that he has actually been working. Also, it has a nice real-time Gantt chart, which shows the real progress of a project, showing tasks that are finished, on-time, off-time, overbilled, etc. Also, it is free to use for up to 5 team members (and it costs only about $300/year per extra member).
Apart from all that, it includes all of the main features of a project management tool, that is, phases and tasks management and assignation, collaborative discussion, etc. And with a very intuitive UI. Really, we are very happy with this tool, and I recommend it to everyone!
Thursday, April 5th, 2012 06:46
Thanks for sharing, your list.
Also maybe you will be interested infree task management software based not on relative DBs, but on gparh database, which grants unleashed flexibility so you don’t need any additional IT programming.
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012 17:58
Thanks for the list. Glad someone put together something real rather than all of these fake review sites. Thanks for the extra help.
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 00:00
We use Dooster. It’s excellent collaborative software and has improved our performance. I recommend it highly. They have a free trial period as well.
Friday, January 13th, 2012 19:06
We tried several of these options including Basecamp for a while. Someone on my staff recommended Projecturf and we use it for task management, sharing files, and design approvals. It makes things a lot easier to keep our data in one place since we have several designers and managers in different offices.
Sunday, January 8th, 2012 14:54
Thank you for this great review,
All these applications are web-based as I understand… I found this way quite risky yet, because of two major reasons – you can never be completely sure of where your confidential business data is stored (it gets transported to some remote server which is out of your control), while a serious company cannot afford such additional threats, and also Internet connection is vulnerable yet (if your Internet access is down, then your data is unreachable), so we in our company currently prefer using VIP Task Manager as it is LAN-based project collaboration tool, we host its database at our own server, without dealing with the web. Since we decide to have more of distant freelancers, maybe we will try something from these web-based products.
Thursday, December 8th, 2011 23:41
OneDesk includes a comprehensive project management application that greatly facilitates workflow management, social collaboration between all stakeholders, budgeting and task scheduling, and a simple gantt chart.
Thursday, November 17th, 2011 11:51
Recently found one of the easiest and totally free tool http://www.oogwave.com
Monday, November 14th, 2011 18:35
I have used so many pm tools in the past and personally i liked http://vkolab.com for my project management needs, it helps me save tons of extra time spending which i used to do in the past and i believe this should be added to your list above.
Thanks.
Thursday, November 10th, 2011 09:46
It’s a good list. And there are so many other project management too. What we need is just the simple but powful tool.
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011 10:50
Great post, I guess you should review MangoApps (www.mangospring.com) as well, its a powerful software which works on any mobile platform with options of in-house, on premise or private cloud implementation. MangoApps has all the components of Project, Task, Idea, Events & Performance Management. One of the best enterprise social network allowing both internal & external collaboration which guarantees e-mail reduction upto 80% or more…
Friday, November 4th, 2011 15:18
We had a look at some of the softwares mentioned on the list. There are so many which is a good thing. We use Dooster which has brought about such an improvement in team collaboration and consequently better team relations including the admin staff. I hope they’re all as good as Dooster and I’m just very glad that we chose it.
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 15:44
Great list. Our tool is worth testing as well! You should try it out to see if you think it deserves to be on your list. It is based on Social Project Management which is a quite new concept.
Thursday, March 15th, 2012 10:31
use TAWKLE. it will solve all ur problems!
Monday, October 17th, 2011 06:13
I think it is important to note that project management software can be highly inefficient if it is not specialized for specific processes. I have personally began building a service specific to managing web design projects. I am in the stage of collecting data from industry related people and would love your feedback.
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 23:48
It’s a good list. The only one I am not familiar with is the Ajax solution. We looked at a number of them when we were choosing Dooster which has been a success story for us. Granted you all need to be using the same software for collaboration to work.
Thursday, August 25th, 2011 21:02
We are using it’s a great company that has a lot of innovative features and a free 30-day trial. AWESOME! :)
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 14:23
I’d like to throw my hat into the ring. I’m the founder of Thrive; we make Solo a beautiful project management tool for freelancers. http://www.thrivesolo.com It’s the perfect all-in-one package to manage your freelance business.
Thursday, July 14th, 2011 22:11
Interesting list of attractive tools. Our organisation has been using Dooster.net and we’re doing well with it. Less complications and more achieving since we got it.
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011 08:36
Great tools…. I am also a programmer and I am planning to develop few products…one of the product came in my mind was a Web based Project Management tool , I am planning to compete Basecamp , I did some research and found few features that I can add.
You have much more knowledge about different tools , so if possible please let me know any feature in any project management tool you feel missing…just drop me an email. I will try to add it in my features list.
regards,
Rameez Usmani
Monday, June 27th, 2011 17:03
Project management tools are plenty. As you can see, there are fifteen listed in the article, and each comment is about another option. With so many to choose from, it is difficult to find the right software for your company.
Friday, May 27th, 2011 00:13
That’s a clear list and interesting as well as helpful. We’ve been using http://www.dooster.net for a while now and we’re very pleased. Communication is so much better. Everyone was out of the office more and more and it felt like we were getting further away from our spider’s web. As we’re generally a happy company it wasn’t a good thing and using Dooster has enabled us to feel right in there and not left out of anything because we were at a meeting. In our organisation things move fast and you really need to be in touch as well as well organised and Dooster seems to have enabled us to do this. Which makes me wonder when I read these reviews why it isn’t on this one. But good to read about the others so many thanks.
Friday, May 13th, 2011 11:11
Nice list of PM and CRM Tools and I`d like to add WorkforceTrack . I tried its trial by requesting a demo. Mostly, I liked its service: everytime time they ask for feedback checking for your convenience.
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Ben
Friday, March 19th, 2010 00:15
You should also check out SUBERNOVA http://www.subernova.com :)
Mathias
Monday, March 22nd, 2010 10:22
You should also have a look at webforum. http://www.webforum.com/web/page.aspx?sid=116
Sathish Sampath
Monday, March 22nd, 2010 14:05
Hi,
Thanks for the people who are generous enough to comment over and above the list. I ve now signed in busylissy and found it very intersting and useful.
Thanks,
Sathish Sampath
Vernessa
Monday, March 22nd, 2010 00:04
Great round-up of project management tools. I have used ActiveCollab and BaseCamp, both good PM apps. Think I’ll give some of these you’ve highlighted a try, so I can have more business productivity choices to recommend to my clients. Thanks!
Dina
Monday, March 22nd, 2010 02:42
Some good tools listed here, and if I can suggest another excellent online project management tool option, that would be LiquidPlanner. LiquidPlanner is very strong in both task/team management and collaboration, both within teams and with clients via client portals. LiquidPlanner allows for the critical element of uncertainty in projects, and helps the project manager build a realistic schedule that can easily be adjusted as the project continues and those inevitable bumps along the way cause the schedule & priorities to be readjusted.
And to add to an already list of great features, LiquidPlanner has a free iphone app.
http://www.liquidplanner.com/tour/
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Steve Leon
Saturday, March 20th, 2010 18:08
You’re missing HyperOffice, http://www.hyperoffice.com, an integrated collaboration suite that make it easier for company owners, employees, customers, partners and suppliers to run and grow a business by working together, planning projects, sharing documents, organizing tasks, scheduling meetings, and more. HyperOffice integrates and delivers a range of software-as-a-service business applications over the Internet — shared calendars and contacts, access to documents stored on the company network, project management, web conferencing, databases and web forms; forums, polls and wikis; project and task portals, Intranets and Extranets; user rights, versioning, commenting, backup, and more.
Grant
Sunday, March 21st, 2010 14:55
Like another poster suggested our team has been impressed with agilesoup.com
We are a team of 6 and the intuitive design best suits our needs.
Sivakumar
Sunday, March 21st, 2010 18:56
Thanks for all of the comments and we already know the commentators will list their tools too.Thanks for added.
laura
Monday, March 22nd, 2010 14:53
I usually work with web-based applications like http://www.showdocument.com
I use it for sharing my designs and documents with partners and clients,
but i guess it can used for other purposes too. If you’re looking for a free solution you should check it out.
- Laura W.
Mic
Monday, March 22nd, 2010 15:07
Google Wave anyone…?!?!?
Kyle Keller
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 18:56
This is a really great post, and has some awesome insights. At ProjectSpaces (www.projectspaces.com), we believe strongly in fighting against the con you list — “These project management apps are here to save you time, but they can also be very time-consuming and not intuitive.” We have strived for simplicity over some of the flashy features of the other tools, while making sure to still include everything you need. Check us out and sign up for a free trial today. We’d love to hear from you.
PM Hut
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 20:54
I don’t think the tools are listed in order of importance.
andy
Saturday, March 27th, 2010 19:04
Thank you so much for this article. It comes just in time as we are looking for productivity tools @ work. Have a good day!
- andy
isabelle
Thursday, March 25th, 2010 23:46
Thx for this list :), I must admit I’ve been using PlanningForce Express Premium for a long time and I’m very happy with it :) Don’t hesitate to add it to your list ;)
http://www.planningforce-express.com – Cheers and keep posting :)
Siim Esko
Monday, March 22nd, 2010 19:58
I can add http://www.Office123.net to this list. Not only is it a project management tool, but it also has a full range of additional modules that make it a one-stop-shop for a team or a small business. They are also open source, and developing rapidly.
jason
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 04:52
I’ve just signed up to http://www.agilesoup.com, have to say first impressions have been good. The UI and Agile Wall are stand out this far. I’ll have a bit more of a play and post my findings.
David Maguire
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 09:51
The guys over at templatic have modded the P2 wordpress theme to work as a basic twitter like wordpress based collaboration tool. We use it at Outpost all the time for client projects. Its good because it eliminates all the clutter. It looks a lot like Teambox but bare bones.
And its free!
http://templatic.com/news/how-we-used-and-modded-p2-theme-to-enhance-productivity-at-templatic
Andy Moles
Saturday, March 20th, 2010 11:22
Excellent List of Collaboration tools!
I think you might like to add some more to this magnificent List. Taroby http://www.taroby.com is a project management and Collaboration Solution which we’ve been using for the past 2 years. Drop box http://www.dropbox.com allows you to sync your files online and across your computers automatically. Thanks for Posting informative content like these. Keep up the Good Work!
Suruchi
Saturday, March 20th, 2010 08:54
DeskAway is awesome.
Sophie
Friday, March 19th, 2010 14:43
Thanks for the list.
I’ve just started using http://www.agilesoup.com, fantastic UI, intuitive solution for all our daily tasks.
Priyanka D
Friday, March 19th, 2010 08:57
Glad to see DeskAway on this list! Thanks!
Serg
Friday, March 19th, 2010 14:28
Loving 5pm so far. Comes with mobile interface.
Biljana Pesevska
Friday, March 19th, 2010 10:39
Those who need a more advanced project planning and tracking tool should check out Seavus Project Planner (www.seavusprojectplanner.com).
Unique integration and collaboration with Google Apps is coming in less than a month.