Project management question

[Tim Wunder]

On 11/2/2004 9:53 AM, I believe that Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

> I have been struggling with cross platform open source project
> management software. The situation is not pretty. All packages seems to
> be very far from usable. 'Little' things like task dependencies (as in,
> many do not support the notion). Or getting a simple list of the total
> hours that an individual will spend on the project.
> 
> I have been closest with
> 
> 	egroueware's project module (PHP-based) - But it does not
> 		do task dependencies. If a task slides, you must
> 		edit all effected tasks by hand. You must independently
> 		keep track of which tasks those are...
> 
> 	GanttProject (Java based) - No resource summaries. Just their
> 		names and addresses. Not time they are requiring.
> 
> I have tried a literal plethora of these things. But not a single one
> was usable. Which means that either I am expecting too much (don't think
> so) or these tools are not understood in the Open Source community
> (can't think so).
> 
> There was a threat to me today that I would have to start using MS
> Project. Talk about messing up a good day. And generally souring the
> tone of this mail as well...
> 
> Does anyone have any pointers to this kind of thing? There are lots of
> crappy ones out there. I mean pointers to ones that seriously work. Ones
> that, perhaps, you yourself are using.
> 
> And if I suggest we buy one, I have been told it will be MS Project. And
> I may not get away with codeweavers/wine on that one as it seems there
> are 'issues'.
> 
> So, help !!!!
> 

It's not cross-platform (yet), but you might wanna look at OpenWorkbench 
by Niku:
http://www.openworkbench.org

It's open source, although Windows only. I've played with it a little, 
but having never used project management software before, I'm not all 
that versed in how it's s'posed to work...

HTH,
Tim