dotProject madness
Posted by: Gustavo Felisberto in Ciência/Tecnologia, Gentoo, tags: dotproject, web_based_project_managementI’m working solo again on this new secret project, but upper management wants, as normal, to keep up what is currently being done. At the place were I’m working they are trying to use some web based project management system. The one that is currently installed is dotProject, and I must say that I find that the tasks module just sucks.
I’ll try to explain why I think it sucks in two words: “dynamic tasks”
If one tries to create a dynamic task that depends on another task one gets:
CTask::store-check^ failed^ -^ A Dynamic Task may not depend on another task
Dynamic tasks are important in many contexts, but specially in projects that do not have a very clear predefined set of tasks.
So I’m on the look for something else. I like planner but it lacks task logs and completion status. Also one other thing that would be great would be a way to share the information about the document in realtime, and not depend on cvs/svn to share the project file. So something web based would be great.
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As far as I know, and I’ve been in your shoes in a recent past, there isn’t a better (read management-friendly) project manager for PHP. Everyone’s adopting the “minimal shopping list” management style. Heck, even Activecollab is doing it.
Anyway, good luck.
Seems that the latest trend is Activecollab. A couple of years ago I needed something similar, and ditched dotproject for moregroupware, even if its development seems quite dead. Anyway, I don’t know if any of these two solve your problem, but I think you might want to give them a try.
I use XPlanner for personal and work task management. Does the job for me.