Is Microsoft Sharepoint a good solution for software project management? Any gotchas I should be aware of? Can it integrate with SVN? Am I better off turning towards other solutions like Trac or Redmine?
I am familiar with this question
But I more interested in the opinions of other developers who have tried to use Sharepoint for this propose.
I think you might be better off looking at something like Redmine.
Redmine is developed and geared towards your objective. It has so many nice features for development out of the box like roadmaps, issue tracking (bugs/feature requests/etc.), and linkages into SVN.
Sharepoint on the other hand tries to be "everything, to everyone" and as such would require a good deal of time to tame and tweak to get the way you want it. In addition I'm not aware of any integration into SVN.
Sharepoint does have some task and issue tracking out of the box, but I envision it as not being as robust as you'd expect.
We have both here at work, and the developers use redmine while the business users leverage sharepoint for their collaboration needs.
Team Foundation Server uses SharePoint to set up the project portal so I suppose technically it can be done with SharePoint. If I were using it outside of TFS, though, I think I'd choose a more tailored solution.
I've used SharePoint to support project management for years. Pretty happy with it.
Depends on what you need.. we mostly use it as a repository for our documentation and for feature, issue and bug tracking lists. And still use MS Project. Only the team holiday planner is in a SharePoint calendar list. I guess that doesn't actually qualify as a 'solution'.
We use but not integrate with SVN. We do record SVN version numbers in the tracking lists and issue numbers in SVN comments but that is it. Very manual.
Hi, the question can be a little bit missleading. Sharepoint can be used for many things, and project management can make use of many different tools. If you are looking for a means to share documents, there are many solutions out there besides sharepoint. If you are looking for a solution with many out of the box useful features for project managers, then you should consider Dotproject for example. Also have a look at the many groupware applications, like Groupware.
Regards.