Tuesday 10 July 2012

Free and Opensource Project Management software for your business

Once your business grows and crosses a certain stage, you will require a proper tool for managing your projects. The growth may be in terms of company size or number of projects.

A proper tool will help in better tracking a project timeline and at the same time enable you to better use your resources. You can know where you are lagging and what issues are pending.

When looking for project management tools, choose something that is suitable for your company workflow. There are various options available in both commercial and free software worlds. It will surely take quiet a lot of time for you to figure out what is best suited for your business.

Two such project management tools are Teambox and Trello. Both are free to use with some limitation on the number of users for the free account.

Let us start with Teambox. Teambox has both hosted and self hosted option and it is opensource. That means, you get the source code for the software for you to host it inhouse or you can choose to use their online system.

Trello on the other hand currently has only hosted solution. That means, you have to use the service directly from Trello.

Both are free to use and provides a sticky notes kind of interface and that is the best part. You can give them both a try before you proceed with your options.

When you compare trello vs teambox, you may find that both are good in many respects. While Trello is simpler to use and has less learning cure, Teambox has more features but requires more time to learn. At the end Teambox also provides you the option to self host making it better.

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