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What are the best high level project management tools?

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Question added by Mohamed Helal , Project Manager , GROUP CONSULT INTERNATIONAL
Date Posted: 2016/04/11
Ghada Eweda
by Ghada Eweda , Medical sales hospital representative , Pfizer pharmaceutical Plc.

The Best Project Management Software of

1-   Easy Projects

Ranked No#1 Project management software can aid a company in so many ways and be the organization tool you have been missing. Easy project is the clear winner in our book among the useful project management software options we reviewed, with its easy integration, guest portal, and amazing customization options. Easy Projects was the obvious standout for its customization options alone. This software allows you to personalize virtually everything, from adding your logo to your own data fields. If you’re not looking to spend money quite yet (or at all), Easy Projects offers a great free plan with services under1GB. Even better, its other plan options are also very affordable. This software integrates well with Microsoft Outlook and the guest portal makes the communication process easier than ever. All of this and more gives us reason to award Easy Projects as a top pick.

2- Teamwork

3-Zoho Projects

4-Wrike

5-LiquidPlanner

6-Teamwork Projects

7-Clarizen

8-Workfront

9-Volerro

- LiquidPlanner

sameer abdul wahab alfaddagh
by sameer abdul wahab alfaddagh , عضو هيئة تدريس , جامعة دلمون

Project management is a structured and carefully planned effort to achieve a successful project, it is a focused effort to reach a certain result, such as the construction of a new building, or a new computer a huge system. And project management is the planning, organization and security of the system and management resources to achieve specific goals, he sought a temporary definite beginning and end (usually restricted in advance, and often restricted budget or duty delivery date) intentionally to get to the aims and objectives completely specified or achieve a useful change of the institution indirectly or directly through added value. Output for the project, which has been done...

. The nature of the interim project stands in contrast with business as usual, which is a repetition of the Permanent Technical activities or semi-permanent for the production of products or services required, the main challenge of project management is an accomplished all the goals and objectives of the project next to respect the typical constraints of time and budget.

 

Management of the project include the development of a plan that includes the identification and confirmation of its goals and objectives, and assign tasks and how they will accomplish the goals, and estimate the resources required to complete the project, and report the budgets and timelines for completion and implementation of the scheme concurrent project with organizing operations Control Manager includes for accuracy performance and reports on the plot, and the mechanism of repair problems wherever they are. The projects usually called stages or its various names, such as basic: applicability, selection, project plans, implementation, evaluation, and support and maintenance

Nuridin Islam Diab
by Nuridin Islam Diab , Training Manager , Bbusinesss LLE

I agree with the answers given by Ms. Ghada, Mr. Sameer and Mr. Achmad. Thanks for the invitation. 

مها شرف
by مها شرف , معلمة لغة عربية , وزارة التربية السورية

I agree with M's Ghada answers, thanks for the invitation. 

ACHMAD SURJANI
by ACHMAD SURJANI , General Manager Operations , Sinar Jaya Group Ltd

There are five of the best open source project management tools, like ProjectLibre and OpenProject. The article struck a chord with readers and continues to prove valuable. So, this year I revisited the tools mentioned in last year's article, taking into account comments and suggestions from readers, and provided an update on where they are today. First, I share five new open source project management tools for 2015. All in all, this article will give you a good look at 11 of the top open source project management tools out there.

The criteria I used is based on the following:

  • Is the software provided under an open source license?
  • Does it have an active community?
  • Does it have up-to-date documentation available?
  • Is the source code available?
  • Are there new or recent releases?
Five new tools for 2015

Tuleap Open ALM

Tuleap Open ALM is not just a project management tool, it is an application lifecycle management tool, including support for agile development and project management. Tuleap received the InforWorld.com Bossie Award in 2013 and is used by Fortune 500 companies, small and medium businesses, and open source projects.

Tuleap allows for agile, traditional, hybrid, or custom processes for project magament. It supports planning, sprints, tasks, reports, and more. This tool is very suitable for open source development companies, as the tool also integrates with Git, SVN, Jenkins, and more.

Tuleap is licensed under a GNU Public License and is available on GitHub. The open source version contains all features and allows for unlimited projects and users. In addition to professional support, there is an active community for support and documentation. Tuleap is in active development, with version 7.8 in December 2014 being the latest release.

OrangeScrum

OrangeScrum is a modern project management tool for freelancers, agencies, and small and medium businesses. Features include a scrum task board, resource planning, progress tracking, and more. It is designed for use by IT companies, education and health services, construction and manufacturing, and others.

The tool is web-based on top of a CakePHP framework. It is available as a free and open source under GPLv3 and available on GitHub. There is also a paid SaaS solution in which the parent company Andolasoft provides professional services and support.

The OrangeScrum developer community has an active forum and roadmap. The latest version is 1.5.1 and under active development.

Taiga

Taiga is an open source project management platform in beta for startups, agile developers, and designers. For an introduction, see Nitish Tiwari's coverage in Taiga, a new open source project management tool with focus on usability. Read more in this interview with CEO Pablo Ruiz Múzquiz.

"Taiga is a tool that aims to solve the basic problem of software usability. Designed with this sole aim, the developers claim it's beautiful to look at all day long."

With a focus on agile development, Taiga has all of the required features such as a backlog, Kanban, tasks, sprints, and issues. Taiga is open source under the GNU Affero GPLv3 and available on GitHub. There is also a paid version. Taiga runs on Nginx, Python 3.4, and PostgreSQL 9.3 or higher. You can find documentation on their site and support via their Google group.

Odoo

Odoo, formerly known as OpenERP, is a full suite of business applications, of which Odoo project management is just one. It is multiplatform and supports Windows, Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, and others. Odoo is licensed under AGPLv3 and available for download.

Odoo has a professional community with everything a user or developer needs, including forums, documentation, IRC, tracker, GitHub, and more. It supports a Kanban view with tasks and issues as well as a Gantt chart and control deadlines. The tool can easily be adapted to meet your own project management methods. It's also highly collaborative, allowing for multiple members to work on proposals or minutes at the same time and sending tasks as emails automatically. For the full set of features, check out the tools description page.

MyCollab

MyCollab supports three modules: MyCollab CRM, Document Management, and MyCollab-Project.

MyCollab-Project is the tool we're looking at in this case and has many features, like a Gantt chart and milestones, to time tracking, issue management, risk and problem management. MyCollab-Project comes in three editions, of which the Community Edition is the free option. MyCollab is licensed under AGPLv3, built in Java, and bundles open source frameworks and libraries. The source code is on GitHub and the tool is available for download on the website. Documentation is available there as well.

MyCollab-Project's latest release is 4.5.5 with a focus on enhancing project functionalities and mobile distribution. GitHub is used in place of a traditional forum, where they accept contributions and provide support.

Yaqoub Alomar
by Yaqoub Alomar , Civil Engineer , Al-Zubeir municipality

I would suggest you to have a look at Celoxis (Online Project Management Software Tool) . A one integrated tool to manage everything from projects to resource management, budgeting to revenue forecasting, time and expense tracking, reporting and collaboration.It has all things necessary to ensure tool adoption. For managers, Celoxis have, the fastest interactive gantt to create dynamic project schedules and advanced resource management features for managing over allocations or tracking workloads. Teams get an edge over other tools by eliminating multiple software that they’d use otherwise. Celoxis lets them see their tasks, report bugs, manage tickets, or fill time all from a single tool. They also get relevant notifications to their inbox and can send updates directly even without logging in.  Executives get accurate and real-time information about their portfolios through a range of reports and charts.Celoxis has a vast feature set including those that you would expect from an advanced project management solution. Bullet-listing a few:

  • Auto and Manual Scheduling Modes
  • Interactive Gantt that can effortlessly handle more than 10,000 tasks
  • Project Portfolio Management
  • Dashboards
  • Resource Load Charts and Real-time workload realization
  • Multiple Custom field types such as currency, dates, pick lists and even formula fields.
  • Advanced reporting engine that gives you a powerful platform to turn all your project data into actionable insights
  • Multilingual application
  • Mobile interface
  • Out of the box Integrations and web-based API

Ahmed Mohamed Ayesh Sarkhi
by Ahmed Mohamed Ayesh Sarkhi , Shared Services Supervisor , Saudi Musheera Co. Ltd.

full agree with answer add by mr. sameer abdul wahab alfaddagh 

 

Muhammad Moeen Bhatti
by Muhammad Moeen Bhatti , Cluster Incharge , Premier DLC - A project of Beaconhouse Group

agree with Ghada Eweda......................

Loraine Domingo
by Loraine Domingo , Career Break , N/A

Answers has been given correctly. I have nothing more to add. 

Zain ul Abdin
by Zain ul Abdin , Project Planning & Control Manager , Redco International Trading and Contracting

If you are talking about the Softwares, there are too many of them as mentioned by Ghada and others and some of them might be equally good but it is really the man behind the gun that matters.

Sathish Prabhu.V
by Sathish Prabhu.V , Manager - Operations & Process Improvement , Revolution Valves

Experts have given many solutions to your question. I got inputs which are very useful. 

Hence here I want to tell about few questions we need to ask ourselves prior to selecting Project Management Tools.

1) Is scalability a key issue?

2) Is it user-friendly?

3) Is it flexible?

4) Does it provide enough customization?

5) What features really matters?

6) How will the clients use the tools?

7) Do we need email integration?

8) Do our employees need to use it on-the-go?

9) Do you need support and training?

10) What is the goal of using a project mangement tool?