How do you manage projects?

[BoyDollars]

for my personal life i use my iPhone to manage everything.... Keeps me totally on track.

For business we use whiteboards, written weekly schedules and Calendars.
kinda old school.... But it works for us. I might take a look at http://www.projectpier.org/ and see how it works for us. Thanks for the suggestion Chip!


David

[chelo - ACW]

It's hard, I have 3 people receiving my orders and I can't even begin to imagine what it would be like to have 5 or 10. These guys are 2 in Australia and 1 in Buffalo so they don't have the same schedule, I'm positive emails and a good organized email client are the best solution. But of course you have to be organized yourself to make it work. Dealing with different times and different people is a great experience, it's also stressful so be warned, this is no easy job.

Good luck to all you guys starting off. :thumbsup:

[basschick]

for a multiple employee situation, you really can't beat bugzilla. it's free and you can have everyone's jobs posted, they can let you know the progress of each job - and it's even better if more than one person is working on a single job or project.

It's hard, I have 3 people receiving my orders and I can't even begin to imagine what it would be like to have 5 or 10. These guys are 2 in Australia and 1 in Buffalo so they don't have the same schedule, I'm positive emails and a good organized email client are the best solution. But of course you have to be organized yourself to make it work. Dealing with different times and different people is a great experience, it's also stressful so be warned, this is no easy job.

Good luck to all you guys starting off. :thumbsup:

[gaybucks_chip]

I've only played with bugzilla a little bit, but my sense was it was much more organized toward software projects developed by a team.

One of the things I like about ProjectPier (or Basecamp) is it allows differing levels of access, so for example, a contractor sees different information than the employees do, and there is a combination of tools such as to-do lists, milestones, notes and comments (some of which is similar to bugzilla.)

I will say that I suspect bugzilla is probably more mature and feature-rich than project pier, but both are free, so perhaps take a look at both of them. They do similar things but they were developed with different ideas in mind, so the way they approach things is a little different.

[chelo - ACW]

for a multiple employee situation, you really can't beat bugzilla. it's free and you can have everyone's jobs posted, they can let you know the progress of each job - and it's even better if more than one person is working on a single job or project.

I've heard of it but never tried it, I'll give a try now that I know whatit is for. Thanks basschick