dotProject – project management
If you are looking for a web-based project management application to help you organize your tasks, contacts and schedule, you may find dotProject to be exactly what you need. Although dotProject is not a complex application meant to be “everything for everyone”, it still is a great project management solution. It is also free and open-source and it could easily be installed using FreeHostia’s Elefante Installer. The installation is free both for free hosting users and paid web hosting users and it takes less than 5 minutes thanks to the 1-click free scripts installer integrated within FreeHostia’s web hosting control panel.
dotProject has all the features that you need to effectively manage projects, create tasks and manage your working schedule. The main features of dotProject are:
Clients, contractors, suppliers…
You can create profiles for each company related in any way to your business: clients, vendors, suppliers, consultants, government, internal companies or departments and others.
Projects
You can have unlimited projects. You select the departments, people and companies involved in a project and set roles.
Task management
Individual tasks could be added and you can track the progress easily.
Schedule
You have a calendar with events, deadlines and milestones and also Gantt charts to show visualize the tasks in time.
Forums
Co-workers, employees and project managers can easily discuss issues using an integrated community board.
Tickets
Customers can report problems and be involved in the project development by opening tickets.
The full list of features is of course much longer and the team of volunteers developing dotProject is constantly working on adding new ones. Bottom line is, dotProject is a fully featured, well-working project management application. It’s great that dotProject is free and it’s open-source and that it could be installed with the Elefante Installer for free.
