Does anyone have recommendations for a good task/time management tool.
Ideally this would just keep track of programming tasks / the project and the time spent also the option to produce an end of week report would be advantageous
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JIRA has a log work feature. You log your work on a per task/issue bases. My boss rather likes the reports.
sblundy
2009-01-07 21:27:06
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FogBugz is your friend too. FB6 is a great PM tacking tool, I've been using 5 to manage my team and I'm trying to pry the money for FB 6 out of those that hold the purse strings.
For open source/ 1 dev its free as well.
John Nolan
2009-01-07 21:28:58
Joel has some amusing and informative thoughts on the topic here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/12/29.html
sblundy
2009-01-07 21:32:55
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Voo2do is pretty good. I've used it before and it's great because it's very simple to start, but you can use the extended functionality as needed. And there's an API, which can fill in the missing features.
- organize tasks by project
- track time spent and remaining
- add tasks by email
- publish task lists
- as easy as paper, but on the web 24x7
- supports software guru Joel Spolsky's Painless Software Scheduling method
- fancy-shmancy “ajax” interface
- API for custom applications
Ryan Doherty
2009-01-07 21:34:09
Somehow it is not working in windows 2008 environment when I keep files in the ftp site. It does APPCRASH every now and then
Samuel
2009-08-29 01:16:03
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For basic commandline task tracking I use http://wtime.sourceforge.net/ It's simple but effective but only has top level tasks.
Jared
2009-01-07 22:36:33
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If you work with a large team, Team Foundation has it all. Work item tracking (which can be tied to checkins and builds!), reports, all sorts of metrics. For a small organization though the cost is probably too high.
fatcat1111
2009-01-07 22:37:01
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Here's another vote for FogBugz. Originally I bought it for managing client projects, but I've grown to use it for keeping track of almost everything to-do related in my life -- simple tasks, stuff to remember, small personal/home projects, books to read, etc. It's feature-rich and has a handful of nice integration points, and while it's still very much software-type-task-oriented, it's handy. Very reasonably priced for the value.
Christian Nunciato
2009-01-14 06:04:06
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For task management for myself - Outlook
- It's centralised
- I have to have my email open so I don't need to worry about yet another application
- Sync to server so I can get it anywhere I have a browser
- Sync to phone so I get reminders when not at the desk
- Emails can be flagged as tasks
For task management for a team - TFS 2008 with SP 1. There is some nice enhancements in there with alerting that makes a big difference.
Robert MacLean
2009-01-14 07:04:28
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A good tool with collaboration feature as well: http://www.producteev.com/
Timothy Chung
2009-01-14 07:20:19
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Hi
We use Smartsheet as a tasking and collaboration tool. It's pretty well based on the idea of a spreadsheet that you can add your own columns to. The sheets can be shared amongst team members, it sends you emails when anything changes, it has file share (without limit) - you can also give external people access so that they can raise bug notifications etc. that then get notified to the team. Works very well for us as it is SO flexible
eggheaddesign
2009-01-14 07:28:37
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I recommend Task Coach, an open source, single person, hierarchical task manager that allows for time tracking, categories, reminders and much more.
Frank Niessink
2009-05-21 19:19:03