It has been a while since I blogged! Can't help it, I am now at a stage where lot of people look at me to answer them. There is my wife and son, who are a priority. Then while at office, I need to make sure that I keep my clients and managers updated with daily activities of my team handle a team of programmers and last but not least code in .NET!
But that's how it is supposed to be, so I have no complaints, except for a wish, if only days were longer than 24 hours or if human body did not need any sleep or may be I could create my clone(s)!
It has been 2 busy weekends, attending PMP training. But on the whole, it was a good exercise, I came across people from different walks of life, most of them much senior to me. Training itself was exhaustive and I realized some of the best practices followed by Project Managers around the world.
End of the day, I am still a software geek so I am looking around for Project Management Software Tools, which I will try to list down -
DotProject- This is one of the first tools I had come across, Deepak Shenoy introduce me to this tool and made me use effectively for my team at WNS WT. Best thing about this tool is that its quite feature rich and is open source.
Project .Net - I haven't had any experience with this tool yet, but as I browsed through the website, it looked very promising. Project .Net is a commercial open source, web based enterprise project management. It is very rich in terms of features, check this out - Dashboards (personal, project and business), collaboration tools like discussion groups, document management, templates, work flow management, scheduling - simply awesome. By the way, Project .Net is written in Java and has nothing to do with Microsoft .NET framework!
Microsoft Project 2007 - Probably one of the first (yes it existed from DOS days) and most widely used desktop based project management tool, what more do I say. I have heard rumours that the next version of the Project will adorn the ribbon style UI interface, which was made "popular" by MS Office 2007.
Mingle - This tool stands apart as its meant for the Agile practitioners. Mingle is developed by ThoughtWorks Inc. which is a big time Agile practitioner and is available for Windows, Mac and Linux, that's a beauty. I have not downloaded this tool yet, but intend to evaluate it soon.
Pocket Manage - Well, its not exactly called pocket manage, but its an application that runs on Nokia Communicator or any PDAs with support to MS Project 2007 format support. Real life saver for project managers who attend lot of meetings but hate to take their laptop along with them!
That's it folks, for now. Here is a complete list of project management tools listed out by wikipedia
