[UPHPU] web-based project management software

[Brandon Stout]

Wade Preston Shearer wrote:

> I have searched and searched and searched and there are no good,
> web-based project management software solutions!
>
> I doubt that there are any that I haven't seen yet, but I thought I
> would try the group. Is anyone aware of a good solution? I doesn't
> even have to be open source or free.

Wade,

This was a subject we covered in one of my Masters Degree courses at the
University of Phoenix.  Everyone but me thought MS Project is the best
because most companies that use enterprise-class project management use
Microsoft Project.  Microsoft Project does have a web-based interface,
many consider MS Project (not necessarily it's web interface) the
industry standard for project management software.  I disagreed with my
classmates for the same reason you dislike SimplyPM - of course, MS
Project is all proprietary, and probably just as dependent on Active X
and IE as SimplyPM.  Some info here:

  http://www.microsoft.com/office/project/prodinfo/EPM/default.mspx

If the business you want to use project management software for uses
Windows and MS Office, you can also use Outlook for many project
management tasks.

OpenOffice.org is slowly building a competitive product, but it's at
least alpha, if not pre-alpha.  Info here:

  http://oopm.openoffice.org/

Here are a couple others which you have not listed:

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/xpmt/
  http://www.phprojekt.com/

You might also consult with some of the project management communities
such as:

  http://pmi.org/info/default.asp
  http://allpm.com/
  http://pmforum.org/
  http://projectconnections.com/
  http://projectmagazine.com/

Brandon Stout
http://mscis.org