问题
I work at a smallish web agency (3 programmers, 2 project managers), we mostly make sites for marketing campaigns and also some larger sites. Most of our projects are a week, maybe two, in development. The majority of projects are only worked on by a single developer.
Up until now we've been using a spreadsheet in Google Docs to keep track of current and upcoming projects. But lately we've been feeling this is a bit imprecise, it's hard to tell the size and scope of a project just by a single cell in a spreadsheet. And looking further, as we expand, this won't be a viable option even if we make some changes to the spreadsheet.
Most of the (admittedly few*) project/time management tools I've looked at focus more on a small number of projects with a large number of tasks. Not caring too much about who does what.
What we want is something that can work comfortably the other way around, many projects assigned to few developers with a handful of tickets/tasks for each project.
I'm also having trouble finding software that gives a good overview of what is assigned to a single developer and the expected workload they will have.
Is there such a software?
If not, what would be a good starting point for rolling our own?
* The major ones I've looked at so far are activecollab, redmine, fogbugz and trac, right now redmine feels to be the most fitting
Update: I've been fooling around a bit more with Redmine, and even though I've never touched Ruby before seems to be rather easy to fiddle around with. I hacked up the timesheet addon to show future work instead of completed hours in an afternoon. Now my main obstacle will be convincing our Project Managers to give it a try ;)
回答1:
I would probably try to use something like Redmine for that. It is not project management per se, it is more forge-like software but it has time-tracking, fora, documents & files uploading, a lightweight gantt-chart and bug/issue tracker. It is evolving quite rapidly, can even import Trac data.
回答2:
FogBugz - a plug for our host.
回答3:
I would say fogbugz. It all depends on cost though. Most of the products/apps mentioned in the question are free or open source. If cost is a problem then one of those apps would be great.
The other nice thing about fogbugz is they can host it for you. For such a small team you may not want to worry about hosting the other software products yourself and making sure they are backed up and all that.
Just things to think about. I have tried most of those products and settled on fogbugz in the end. I am also a part of a very small team and it worked great.
回答4:
Well, I work on a team of 8 people, and we have a portfolio of something like 50 projects, and counting...
I'm using redmine and everything seems to work just fine...
回答5:
You could also look at: http://www.dotproject.net/
I used it a couple of years ago and it wasn't too shabby.
回答6:
Basecamp... for sure!
Suffice to say I got a non-techie team on it and they're loving life now! We, techies, have loved for months!!! :D
回答7:
If, by chance, your team were comfortable with using Emacs, then org-mode (http://orgmode.org/) would be ideal.
回答8:
What about RationalPlan?
Single Project Version, Multi Project Version and Free Project Viewer:
http://www.RationalPlan.com
Ioan Lucian
回答9:
Been hearing a lot of hype about playnice.ly, might be nice to see how it stacks up against some of the more established software like the gemini project platform
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/349605/what-is-a-good-project-management-software-for-many-small-projects