Web-based Project Management Tools

December 12, 2005

I spent some quality time on Friday afternoon at the Bryght offices in Vancouver, chatting with Boris Mann, Kris Krug and André Charland about the current state of web-based project management tools and the as-of-yet unmet needs of the not-for-profit sector. Web-based tools like Basecamp, Tasks Pro, Airset and even Remember the Milk all provide decent task management functionality, but where do not-for-profit project managers go when they need actual project scheduling functionality on the web? Or are we simply not building realistically achievable (i.e. resource- leveled) schedules, because tools like Microsoft Project are too difficult to use, too expensive, and don't run on Macs?

Do you currently build resource-leveled schedules, save baselines and track progress against them? If so, are you using a web-based tool to do this? And if so, which tool are you using? What's working well for you and what isn't (and why)?