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Currently 2 person programming team, with a project manager whom doesn't have any experience in Project management. So really need something very simple, that will hold the hand of a project manager.
Far more important than features is ease of use. I could deal with a gloried ToDo list - but I would like milestones.
Thanks
BaseCamp? Good enough for a two-person team to keep track of todos, milestones, and some basic communication.
Any software you select now will just add interference to the process of learning to be a project manager. For such a small team pencil and paper, even a whiteboard and pens, will be sufficient. When you (or the PM) have learned the basics of project management, then is the time to start thinking about software support.
If pencil and paper is too simple, try a word processor and spreadsheet.
Look at Project kaiser. Free for 5 users, there are milestones, issues on unlimited hierarchy and more.
Try this: http://www.openproj.org/openproj
Free and can read MS project as well.
For novice project managers RationalPlan is the best choice. The embedded project guide will help the project manager step by step to plan and control the projects. More helpful would be to start learning the basics in project management and map those on the application.
This is the way to evolve but you can also keep things very simple by using some spreadsheets or To Do list software.
For a simple, no-nonsense, agile project management solution, I highly recommend Pivotal Tracker. Check out the intro video on the Learn More page to get a feel for how the tool works.
PS - Send your project manager my best wishes! :)
SmartSheet
have used and can recommend,
milestones and any other users are free, can share limited views with clients etc
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I'm looking for an efficient, easy-to-learn tool for Scrum project management not for proffesional use but to use it in my thesis concerning the use of Scrum in game development. Basically I want to visualize a production process of a hypothetical game. Some fragments of the production process should be really detailed to make my point, so basically user stories, tasks, burndown charts etc. are a must.
I'm using Scrum, Kanban and some Lean practices for eliminating waste. I also want to use Extreme Programming practices in this production process including TDD and Continuous Integration.
I have zero experience in proffesional project management so I need something that's fairly simple to use for a newb like me.
Anyone can recommend a tool like that? For now I was thinking about TargetProcess and ScrumWorks. Thanks.
Whiteboards and Post-Its.
No... Seriously.
:-)
Throw in Excel for your charting. This combination is drop dead easy to keep up to date and use.
Brandon
I would recommend these I am familiar with, in this order:
If you are collocated, use whiteboard and Post-its and Excel charting as in the answer above.
If you are not, you may opt for Trello, which is basically... a whiteboard with post-its. No charting though.
Or Pivotal Tracker, which is aimed specifically to Scrum project management (building some functionality for Kanban, too). It does all the story-points-and-velocity calculations for you and some charting. Somtimes it's too "prescriptive". You don't do Scrum by the book, you might have some difficulties to overcome the built-in lifecycle.
Both are very intuitive and easy-to-use. Trello is free, Pivotal Tracker is free for individual use only. The bigger your team of collaborator the higher the monthly subscription.
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We in our organization are trying to implement a source code quality management tool. SonarQube is one such tool that we have come across, and it's quite full of features and is phenomenal. We want to compare it with its peers, if there are any, before we actually implement it.
Are there any good contenders to Sonar's capabilities and features?
Squale (free)
Kalistick
MetrixWare
Cast
Panopticode is a good opensource alternative.
if you are concerned only about quality of code, then Sonar is a great tool and it is a way to go.
Though, I would recommend you to also look at the quality from a broader perspective. For example your customer would not care a lot about your code quality and instead would evaluate quality as number of bugs he encounters in your product releases. So in addition to code, you may analyse your defects, quality of your development process and probably many other aspects.
You may take a look at programeter, if you are interested in quality of the product as a whole, and not just the code quality (disclaimer: I am the co-founder at Programeter).
Since you are just starting out in that field simply go with sonar and re-evaluate in 1 year.
You don't indicate your platform. If you're an Eclipse shop, there's CodePro Analytix.
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I have recently been tasked with writing a fairly large (for 1 person) program and would like to know what is the best software to use to be able to manage this project. Something that I can list what needs to be done and check it off when it is done, something to keep me on track.
I'm a FogBugz user here. Does exactly what you're asking and if there's just going to be one user then you can use it for free.
Another option for the basic task scheduling/prioritization duties is SmartSheet - never clicked with me personally but a lot of people seem to like it. It's worth checking out as an alternative.
you can check out this one too, simple and easy to use http://checkvist.com/
If you find free and open source project management software, you can use Trac or Collabtive. We use both of them for project management activity.
Otherwise, if you have money and require professional service, why not try FogBugz or BaseCamp for free trial?
I would suggest Mylyn if you are into Eclipse. Trac is a great ticket/task tracking system.
We have used XPlanner it's neat and easy to use.
We use http://easyprojects.net/ and it works quite well.
If you are using visual studio there are some task list features built in I'm sure some other IDE's also have similar features. In the company I work for MS project is the defacto standard. I don't really see the value in it for a one person project. I use Todolist for personal Time management.
You might want to consider fossil.
It's a source code management system with built in ticket system and wiki.
It's trivial to get it working (just one binary file).
It's crossplatform.
It stores the whole repository into an SQLite database.
Open Atrium
BugZilla
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One of my clients have asked me to give UI mockups of all pages of my web application...
I found Balsamiq which seems to be a good one... Any other tools....
What would you use for drawing UI mockups?
Check out Pencil. It can run as a Firefox addon or standalone application.
From its homepage:
The Pencil Project's unique mission is
to build a free and opensource tool
for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.
SketchFlow?
Pencil and paper, scanned if digital is needed.
Online tool http://gomockingbird.com/
WireframeSketcher is a tool that helps quickly create wireframes, mockups and prototypes for desktop, web and mobile applications. It comes both as a standalone version and as a plug-in for Eclipse IDEs. It has some distinctive features like storyboards, components, linking and vector PDF export. Among supported IDEs are are Aptana, Flash Builder, Zend Studio and Rational Application Developer.
(source: wireframesketcher.com)
ForeUI is awesome.
Denim is interesting and can even run the prototyped webapp with the "hand-drawn" UIs.
(Though I'd also really suggest Balsimiq as the one you should use.)
Edraw MAX 5 is also a good candidate. Checkout few mockups i made with it.
http://www.mixedwaves.com/2010/03/wireframe-samples-for-poll
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I'm looking for an Open Source (or at least free) project managment / billing system, nothing teribly fancy but the minimum requirements are along the lines of:
Free.
Allows me to add mulitple clients.
Allows me to track client payments (super basic here I have an accountant for the major stuff) and send automated reminders to pay.
Free
It doesn't have to be Open Source but thats always a plus so I can add any other features I decide I need.
Needs to run on windows. (although a server could be either windows(not iis)/*nix)
It probably doesn't exists (not as one product). If I was building them I would separate the two. If it's good for billing, it probably isn't good for PM. If it's good for PM, it probably isn't good for billing.
For the billing, spend $150.00 and buy QuickBooks. For the PM side, it really depends on what you think Project Management is. You could always use something like Gforge, or one of the many bug trackers out there for keeping track of tasks. The rest of it is planning and estimating.
For billing you can have a look on JBilling at http://jbilling.com/ .
Try Open Office .Org's Calc (Excel) program.