Author: Tomasz Miklis (4 AiR:Inf)

• Research open on-line project management and collaborative work software.
• Analysis of information available at official websites, Wikipedia and user forums.
• Comparison of functionality of different platforms.

Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives.

A project is a finite endeavour-having specific start and completion dates-undertaken to meet particular goals and objectives, usually to bring about beneficial change or added value.

The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the project goals and objectives while honouring the preconceived project constraints. Typical constraints are scope, time and budget. The secondary—and more ambitious—challenge is to optimize the allocation and integration of inputs necessary to meet pre-defined objectives.

• The traditional approach
• Critical Chain Project Management
• Extreme Project Management
• Event chain methodology
• PRINCE2
• Process-based management

Group collaboration solution include following features:

• Dashboard - overview of data from all active projects,
• Messages - communication between team members,
• Milestones - project completion overview,
• Tasks - To-Do list features,
• Calendar - time frame for the project,
• Files - data exchange space for team members.

Main features:

• Summary page (projects overview)
• ToDo list
• Calendar
• Forum
• Archive

WebCollab is released under the General Public License (GPL).

• Customisable project environment
• Security and permissions management
• Software project management tools (Universal Tracking Tool, Test Management Tool, Source Control Manager, Eclipse Integration)
• Collaboration Tools (Collaborative editing, Code Snippet Library)
• Communication Tools (Instant Messaging, Mailing List Manager, Forums, News, RSS Feeds)

„Lutèce d'Or” prize for „Best Open Source Project Undertaken By A Big Company”

Main features:

• To-do lists
• Milestones
• Messaging / Instant Messaging
• Calendaring
• File management
• Role based user permissions
• Timetracking
• Tagging
• Search
• Reporting (Excel, PDF)
• Exporting (ZIP, XML, RSS, iCal, vCard)
• Importing from Basecamp XML
• Multilanguage