What Project Tracking Tools would you recommend?
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I'm looking for a good tool that can effectively be used for project tracking. I started off by using color-coded tables in Excel (gree=on track, red=in danger,..), but that takes a lot of manual work and it's hard to keep things in sync. I moved on to MS Project, but that hasn't worked out to well for me either: it's a great tool, and does a lot of things, but it is also very generic and lacks of all the functionality that I need for tracking my assets and the work done on them. We have started to develop an in-house tool, but I'm afraid that is not the right way to go, as it will involve lot's f maintenance and it will end up costing more then buying an out-of-the-box solution. Any recommendation? What are you guys using for tracking your project?
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I'm looking for a good tool that can effectively be used for project tracking. I started off by using color-coded tables in Excel (gree=on track, red=in danger,..), but that takes a lot of manual work and it's hard to keep things in sync. I moved on to MS Project, but that hasn't worked out to well for me either: it's a great tool, and does a lot of things, but it is also very generic and lacks of all the functionality that I need for tracking my assets and the work done on them. We have started to develop an in-house tool, but I'm afraid that is not the right way to go, as it will involve lot's f maintenance and it will end up costing more then buying an out-of-the-box solution. Any recommendation? What are you guys using for tracking your project?
We've been using the Microsoft Team Foundation Server since it's beta release and have been very happy with it. On the surface it appears to be somewhat expensive, but when you factor in the costs of building and maintaining your own system it is much less expensive. There is a free 180 day trial, fully functional, from Microsoft. It may be worth your time to give it a try. Jim Conigliaro jconigliaro@ieee.org