Good Project Management software

Depends of course on what you are looking for...

Project 2000/2002(just out) is a good all purpose tool if you want to do Gannt charts, some basic costing and resource mapping. Project 2002 allows some pretty nifty collaborative features to have project servers with multiple users sharing files at the same time.

Microsoft has pretty much gobbled up the low end of the market, so there isn't that much competition in that end of the price range.

A little up scale are companies like Scitorwith PS Suite, Planview and KM project - these are for companies that require more from their tools.

Finally at the high end you have tools like Primavera and Artemis which are designed for serious multi year projects, and have interfaces withfinancial systems etc. These tools are very expensive.

James

Here is a link to an article on project management tools from Tech Republic's sister site www.builder.com.com

http://builder.com.com/article.jhtml?id=u00420020529dol01.htm&fromtm=e609

Remove any spaces from the pasted link.

Chas

One web site a friend of mine (a very experienced project manager) uses is www.eproject.com
There is a free version and a pay version. The free version lets you save documents, set up multiple users, set up discussion threads, manage timelines andother project manager stuff like that.

Let me be clear I don't care about points.

But if you want to reject everyone's answer, do it based on the question you asked, not on something you didn't mention - which is that it should be free.

I have been managing projects for 10 years, and I have never seen anything in this area for free. In the early 90s some companies had products which do the basics, as you require, that cost a couple of hundred dollars. They have all been eaten out of market share by MS project.

If you don'tsee the value of a good tool for three or four hundred dollars, then perhaps you ought to re-evaluate your persepctions. If it saves you time on an ongoing basis, that price is not too high.

James

Now that I know that you are looking for free options, you can download a version of IMSI's Turbo Project.
www.imsisoft.com

I also had a work project last year to find some freeware, and found several trial and low cost share-ware options searching through www.32bit.com

Chas

Well try gentthead.com

I believe the above link should be http://www.gantthead.com -- and if you're really constrained by money, why not use a spreadsheet? It's how we used to do it in the old days before specialty programs, and it was simply formatting the information the way the even older guys used to do it on grid paper.

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