Good luck on your final choice, and please don’t hesitate to email us if you have any questions.

-John

1. Determine tasks at start of week.
2. Put it on Sticky Note.
3. Stick Sticky Notes to white board, which has week or 2 week defined along with persons attached to project.
4. Put sticky note tasks in Trac milestone, create tickets for it.
5. Assign tickets to related milestones.
6. Code into svn, Documentation into wiki.
7. Client can check progress by tickets, code and milestones.
8. IRC for communication!

This was Comat’s way to work, I think this works fine if team is small (3 to 9 people).

I am going to write up a list of things I need! Let’s see how it goes then!

What i get from your previous post is that u need the following features in your project management tool.

* Simple
* Accessible – easy to bring up the app and use it
* Shared – team usage, collaboration
* Process Adherence – automation as much as possible, workflow templates
* Reminders, Followup – automatic, Escalation
* Email / Thunderbird / Sunbird / iCal Integration

You will get all of these in the free version of BaseCamp.

The free version allows you to manage 1 project with unlimited users, but doesn’t include file sharing (well u don’t need one & if you need you can use ur ftps and links as messages).

If you have more than one project per PM, you can signup for more a/cs and use the RSS to see the updates in any RSS reader.

There is no better tool than BaseCamp.

And o ya, you can integrate Campfire in ur Basecamp a/c too. Now this is also free.

I’m not exactly sure what you are looking for in a Project Management system. But i’ll have a go anyway…

It sounds like you are wanting something like 37Signals’ Basecamp combined with Campfire, at least for the communications part. As for the video conferencing part, i’m stumped. Worst case maybe you could run your own streaming server?

Regarding your proposed solutions, there is only one which i have tried – ActiveCollab. I’m not sure if you were referring to the paid version or the old open source version, but i thought both were good.

I should also point out that there is a fork of the open source version of ActiveCollab called ProjectPier, though apart from a few bug fixes and new themes, it is mostly the same. There is also my fork called RailsCollab, which is re-write using Ruby on Rails, which supports a few extra features such as time tracking and S3 support.

Looking at your original post on this, some things reminded me of another 37Signals product, Backpack. Although it is more of a collaboration tool than a project management tool, it does support reminders and a shared calendar, amongst other things.

So perhaps you are looking for multiple solutions that can easily be combined together?