Online Project Management / Collaboration

[egomeister]

Does anyone have experience of (free) online project management software? My hosting package comes with dotproject and phprojekt so I'll be investigating these shortly.

The user would be a small engineering consultancy which would like to find a way of managing projects with a number of users (both staff and clients) at remote locations - basically giving a consistent point of reference for all users. Ideally the solution would be relatively lightweight as there would not be a dedicated project manager to maintain this process and therefore any time spent in setup would be time lost for design.

Any thoughts appreciated!

[egomeister]

Shameless bump for the daytime lot!

[.Flyer]

I know you said free, but have a look at Basecamp. There is a free version, but may be too restrictive.

[egomeister]

.Flyer said:

I know you said free, but have a look at Basecamp. There is a free version, but may be too restrictive.

Cheers flyer - looks like a pretty polished product, and probably a bit simpler than the ones I mentioned before. Certainly worth investigating, I'll have to have a dabble with the free version.

Having spent half an hour or so looking at dotproject/phprojekt I'm initially concerned that they may be a little complicated/confusing to get into - I didn't feel I intuitively knew where to go to to set stuff up and I could see a system getting discarded quickly if it wasn't really easy to get into.

[hodgy587]

Have a look for Hydra, tinkered with it and it seems quite good ..

slinky

[egomeister]

hodgy587 said:

Have a look for Hydra, tinkered with it and it seems quite good ..

slinky

Cheers, I'll take a proper look over the weekend - certainly seems quite comprehensive.