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[nycphp-talk] Open Source Project Management Tools

Ajai Khattri ajai at bitblit.net
Mon Dec 15 00:30:12 EST 2008


On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Tim Lieberman wrote:

> FogBugz is nice for what it does.  The killer feature is email  
> integration, IMO.  Mantis (mantisbt.org) is a nice (PHP) open-source  
> issue-tracker that's pretty flexible as far as use cases go.
> 
> Project Management is bigger than just issue-tracking.

Agreed.

> There's the school of thought that says "Project Management is about  
> Communication (and everything else is a waste of time)" -- mostly  
> championed by the 37signals guys (their product, basecamp (http://www.basecamphq.com 
> ), is actually pretty useful for a small-ish kind of enterprise.

We used to use it. Not good enough to track what's going on in our 
projects. FogBugz was a compromise. Now Ive been looking at Mingle because 
the workflow is pretty useful.


-- 
Aj.




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