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myrrha on "Online project management tool + issue tracking"

myrrha — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:10:35 +0000

Hi! I would like to recommend Binfire. Binfire is a project management tool for teams which has cool features, and is generally user-friendly.

Please visit this website:
http://www.killerstartups.com/Web-App-Tools/binfire-com-manage-projects-online

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myrrha on "Online project management tool + issue tracking"

myrrha — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:09:59 +0000

Hi! I would like to recommend Binfire. Binfire is a project management tool for teams which has cool features, and is generally user-friendly.

Please visit this website:
http://www.killerstartups.com/Web-App-Tools/binfire-com-manage-projects-online

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Charlotte on "Online project management tool + issue tracking"

Charlotte — Mon, 23 May 2011 03:34:32 +0000

Hi All! Im here to announce you new WorkforceTrack Software which has Project Management Tool, CRM, HRMS, and Accounting Tools. Moreover, it can integrate with Applications as Google Apps, MS Project, Outlook, in accounting field - Quickbooks, Android and iPhone, Blackberry integration is also available. Its worth to check out: www.workforcetrack.com

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timesolve on "Online project management tool + issue tracking"

timesolve — Mon, 24 May 2010 00:38:37 +0000

Hi,
I would like to share my experience about Web Hosted Solution for Project Management.
Control your projects and budgets and bill faster with WorkSolv project management system integrated with TimeSolv time billing software. TimeSolv & WorkSolv can be accessed by all parties from any location through the internet 24/7.
For details one can contact them at:
http://www.timesolv.com/timesolv_worksolv.html
TimeSolv Corporation
3432 Denmark Avenue, # 105
Eagan, MN 55123

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scottcobb on "Experience a powerful collaborative MPP Viewer With ValleySpeak Project Server"

scottcobb — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:29:55 +0000

Experience a powerful collaborative MPP Viewer With ValleySpeak Project Server

ValleySpeak project server is a centralized MPP Viewer that enables viewing and sharing of Microsoft Project schedules with team members in real time without investing in expensive multiple Microsoft Project licenses. ValleySpeak project is a hosted MPP Viewer that enables team members to view their respective tasks as per the Project on their web interface.

Team members can also update their task status and on approval it gets reflected on the Microsoft Project files of the project manager. Only the project manager needs Microsoft Project. The team members can view their MPP tasks through the web interface.

ValleySpeak is easy to use and enhances project collaboration within the team. Project managers will appreciate this MPP Viewer because it extends data to help sharing Microsoft project files with remote team members. Because the hosted project management software is web accessible, resources working from other sites will be able to view and update project information in real time.

ValleySpeak project empowers the project manager with a powerful project management tool, that greatly enhances project execution efficiency. ValleySpeak Project server is a sophisticated MPP viewer with a host of additional features like Document and timesheet management, a roles based dashboard and portfolio management extend management capability of this MPP Viewer across the enterprise. Security and control concerns are addressed with this MPP viewer because the files always remain on the local host.

Salient Features of ValleySpeak Project server as a MPP viewer

Only Team Members of your choice have privileges to be able to make changes to the project status details
Team members use most updated schedule
Collaborate with Team Members in a central place to capture and discuss important topics and decisions
Built in calendar which helps keep track of the project meeting

Allow team members to report their work status on a daily basis and get it approved by the Reviewer/Project Manager
Keep projects on track and make sure critical issues don’t fall through the cracks
Reduce project execution risks by allowing Team Members to create and monitor risks
Get a canned view of project progress by generating several reports
Team Members and Project Managers do not need to install any software to get up and running
New improved Template work flow, where Project manager can save and share the work template

Use your own SMTP settings - Admins can now use their own SMTP settings to control email flow
Resource utilization report
Complete Portfolio reporting

ValleySpeak project Server a an MPP Viewer will be an indispensable part of any project management activity. The cost and time savings realized through implementing of ValleySpeak project server generally leads to huge project management cost savings

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Terryausten on "Online project management tool + issue tracking"

Terryausten — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:08:04 +0000

Hey,
we use Valleyspeak Project Sever http://www.valleyspeak.com this allows the team members to read the project schedule, and update the task status by an easy browser access.

Key Benefits
1. Provides 100% two way integration between Microsoft Project tasks and ValleySpeak Project Server
2. Provides comprehensive features like Timesheets, Issue Tracking, Risk Management, Document Management
3. Free and automatic upgrades so that you are always using the latest version of the ValleySpeak Project Server
4. Hassle free Pay as you grow model
5. No restriction of number of projects that one can manage through ValleySpeak Project Server
6. Option to migrate out with your data anytime, your data on resides on your desktop and is under your control at all times
7. Secure and Web Based with support for all major browsers for team members

We didn't have to download any software... It was easy to sign up and start using.
Best project management software which I have come across and happy working with it.

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haljordan5 on "Online project management tool + issue tracking"

haljordan5 — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:49:22 +0000

can anyone suggest any web apps that do project management, time and billing, and CRM?

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haljordan5 on "Online project management tool + issue tracking"

haljordan5 — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:16:25 +0000

can anyone make any suggestions?

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haljordan5 on "Online project management tool + issue tracking"

haljordan5 — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:39:32 +0000

Is there an affordable all in one solution web application that does project management, timesheet billing, and CRM?

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ExecutiveBrief on "The Pros and Cons of SaaS"

ExecutiveBrief — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:23:16 +0000

Much has been said lately about Software as a Service (SaaS), which is often interchangeably referred to as “cloud computing”. While pundits may disagree on whether SaaS is cloud computing, its primary feature is application provided as a service to customers via the internet. Because applications are hosted, this eliminates the need for installation and running of applications on clients’ computers, or even servers, as well as maintenance and support. Moreover, SaaS reduces the need to purchase and maintain hardware.

But before getting into the much-praised or marketed trend, it is worth considering first why SaaS is such a hot commodity nowadays. According to experts, security, maintenance, and cost are among the top reasons why SaaS is being embraced by enterprises.

Moreover, due to the challenges that face companies regarding outsourcing, such as communication gaps and security, SaaS either supplements the need of businesses to outsource parts of their IT requirements. This is especially helpful for small and medium-size businesses that do not have large IT departments, or those that can only afford to pay general IT workers instead of specialists. Because staffing has become problematic due to reduced budgets that affect tech spending, SaaS offers a way to meet their technology requirements without spending more on overhead.

Whereas the application service provider (ASP) business did not make as much mark as it should have in providing enterprise computing, SaaS is being touted as the trend that will replace and even overcome ASP. Scaling was ASP’s main challenge, which required “separate execution environment” or different server environments for hosting different applications. SaaS replaces multiple resources to run applications with shared computing resources, such as the same software version that runs on the same platform. This proves cheaper for end-clients.

SaaS providers offer flexible contracts that have targeted costs for specific services. Many tech projects run for only a few months, so services that provide exactly what businesses need in terms of scope and time, with corresponding costs, are advantages that SaaS vendors are only too happy to explore.

SaaS provide specialized software that increasingly meet clients’ needs. As vendors gain more knowledge about what businesses want, these insights are incorporated into version upgrades, which means better software and, just as important, more responsive service.

It is common knowledge in any industry that freeing up the need to manage back-office processes, including technology services, allows companies to concentrate on bigger, more important business areas. Perhaps at the IT level itself, this is also true. Freeing up the upkeep of some technology processes allows IT departments to focus on the services that they can provide in-house. In effect, SaaS vendors upgrade the quality of both hosted applications and, indirectly, the quality of services of in-house IT departments.

Next part: Why businesses should be cautious about SaaS.
Read the full article at: The Pros and Cons of SaaS - Part 2

Source: http://www.executivebrief.com.

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green on "Online project management tool + issue tracking"

green — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:27:32 +0000

Can I build Gantt charts with Wrike? Can I create/update/view schedule for team members? What are the ways how can I see/control where we are standing at this moment in the project?
Do they have different plans? I can barely see us using 3Gb, and I would like to decrease those $49 per month... :-)

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Tempera on "Online project management tool + issue tracking"

Tempera — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:08:02 +0000

Hi!
We're using Wrike.com. It works for both: project management and bug+issue tracking. It’s very simple. To track a bug I create an email to somebody in my team, put wrike’s address into CC field, add a screenshot and some comments. The task on the bug is automatically put into the system and we track it together. The tool is cheap too, cause you get like 3 GB of storage for the same $49 per month.

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white on "Better practice on managing outsource (off-site) development teams?"

white — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:37:57 +0000

Well, I never spoke about the silver bullet. Also, it's strange why you can't understand the benefits of 24x7 development cycle. If the company delivers a product and it wants to increase a productivity, 24x7 development cycle is a key factor to do this. By incorporating several-timezones development cycle you can deliver product at least 2 times faster.

Speaking about problems in intergration like you mentioned (when one team produces an error which stops other team from continue work) these problems should be solved the same way like you solve other problems in your company. First, it' depends on clearely stated development cycle and last, but not least, it is a test-driven development that will keep you safe.

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melan on "Better practice on managing outsource (off-site) development teams?"

melan — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:32:49 +0000

Practically I don't see any reasons to have 24x7 development cycle for regular software development. The approach is OK for support teams which produces some kind of hot fixes. I can ground my assertion.
First of all the approach makes life of project manager (coordinator) extremely hard because the guy should be available for the developers any time. From the other side you may hire 2 or 3 PMs. It the case we have problems with the managers' team coordination and responsibilities.
Also you need to make very detailed project documentation (design, requirements and etc.) for such kind of teams.
You may say that we may hire testers, developers and CM team from different time zones and in the case testers will have hot versions of the product at the beginning of their working time and developers will have new bugs in the morning of the next day.
It is really great assumption but in the case we have new problems again. For example CM team can't compile new version of the project because of some unfortunate misprint in code. What should they do? Should they awake developers to fix the misprint or they should not do anything? Another problem is the long term testing sessions.
I'm sure any schema of distributed development process should be weighted and assessed in details.
Because there is no silver bullet in Software development.

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white on "Better practice on managing outsource (off-site) development teams?"

white — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:30:23 +0000

What you see as the worst case scenario (several developers, spreading over different time zones) is an actual world scenario and one of the most possible future where outsourcing leads to. Nowadays, too much companies are seeing outsourcing's main benefit is ability to build 24x7 development cycle, switching from each time zone during the work day (and night).

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melan on "Better practice on managing outsource (off-site) development teams?"

melan — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:34:24 +0000

According to my experience there are several schemes of cooperation with remote teams (I'm not talking about remote employees):
- You have only sales and customers support departments in your head office:
In the case you need to have well organized remote team that can execute all the required activities through software development life cycle . And you only share requirements, clients features requires, bugs and your recommendations about future scopes. All the other work is the team responsibilities.
What do the risks of the approach? Bad work of any office is the main risk. But you don't need meetings often and so on because each group has own sphere of responsibility.
As for me the schema is the best. Because your managers near their teams.
- You have all the departments mentioned above + planning, product specialists and high level architects in your head office and all the other tasks are covered by remote employees.
In the case you need more communications between offices but both the offices work independently the most of time. Risks are the same. The approach allow you take you hand on project's pulse.
- You have distributed development team (some developers are located in the head office and some are located in the remote one).
The worst approach. The first problem is that your developers need to spend a lot of time for communications. The second issue is that you have two managers: one in the head office and the second is in the remote office. You will never know how is responsible for the project's fails (Responsible for the problem is another leader :-) )

So I see next keystones that are important for successful utilization of remote dev. team:
- You should delegate as more independent parts of project as possible. To exclude unnecessary communications.
- You should be familiar with remote leaders/managers. In the other case you will be only e-mail address for the remote team but not a man.
- You should provide detailed documentation for the project to the remote team. You know more about the project then the remote team and they need as more information as possible.
- You should participate in few first iterations of the project's development. The participation will allow to share your knowledge with the remote team and establish interpersonal communications with the remote team members

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white on "Online project management tool + issue tracking"

white — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:18:45 +0000

It is commercial and pretty expensive. Otherwise you are limited with everything -- tasks, users, projects, etc... 5 users license costs 400 EURO annually, this is sucks. Basecamp from 37signals is cheaper, it allows you 35 projects, unlimited people, clients, chatting and time tracking, it's secure and gives you 1GB of storage on their servers for $49 per month. And they have got even cheaper plans. (Well, it misses some bells and whistles, but you don't need them for your work.)

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jsmart on "Online project management tool + issue tracking"

jsmart — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:09:23 +0000

We use one with a very friendly interface - and free too, at least for what we use it: teamwork.

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white on "Better practice on managing outsource (off-site) development teams?"

white — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:06:42 +0000

Twice a year travels for the whole team? You've got to be kidding... Who's gonna work then?

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ayurov on "Better practice on managing outsource (off-site) development teams?"

ayurov — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:41:32 +0000

As I know there is only one possible solution: great team leader inside the remote strongteamstrong, team building actions and regular (twice a year) travels.

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