Comments on: Manage projects online with ProjectOffice

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:56:51 +0000

By the way – I’ve read lots of blog posts and looked at alternatives that others have suggested … I refuse to even look at WRIKE because I am appalled at their spamming of these types of blogs.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:53:26 +0000

Great article … because I’ve been through the same process and came to exactly the same conclusion.

I’ve been using Jira for 12 months now and love the functionality but have been looking for an alternative that had the functionality as well as the polished interface and rounding off (ie. Tasks can have issues and wiki’s) … Jira UI is horrible (I know it was never meant for consumers but still, it’s hossible)

The only thing I can see so far in project office that is lacking is:
1) It’s to date centric, I like in Jira I can add tasks without start and end dates, but assign them to a “Version” that has an end date and manage it that way. (I dislike MS Project for the same reason) and.
2) I love the timesheet function in Jira that allows “re-estimation” on the fly. ie. You can log that you’ve spent 3 hours, but now know that instead of a total of 6 hours it will be 12 hours and update instantly. This gives instant “raising of the flag” by developers to the project managers.

If anyone has solutions to this – including Project Office reps – please contact me @ shannon [at] delve.com.au

Thanks.

By: George Harris

George Harris — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:44:46 +0000

I’ve never heard of ProjectOffice before. For collaboration within our team we use Wrike http://www.wrike.com. The real beauty of this tool it that you can create your tasks via e-mail. It’s very easy and saves you loads of time

By: Natalija Trajchevska

Natalija Trajchevska — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:36:27 +0000

Dear Daniel, First and foremost, thank you for your interest in ProjectOffice.net and for all of your kind words about our application. Since we are still in Beta we highly appreciate our users’ opinion and we are committed to make ProjectOffice.net well adjusted to customers needs. We are curious to hear your additional comments and we will be pleased if you share your further experience about ProjectOffice.net with us. Also, we want to express special thanks to John Pritchard. We would be grateful if you both contact us at contact@projectoffice.net and provide us with your personal details, since, as a complement for the post and a sign of gratitude, we would like to offer you some special privileges regarding ProjectOffice.net. You can always stay up to date if you follow our blog posts or our forum section. We hope that we will have good collaboration in the future and that you will enjoy ProjectOffice.net. Best regards, Natalija Trajchevska The ProjectOffice.net Team

By: John Pritchard

John Pritchard — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 08:03:13 +0000

Hi Danieil, I’ve tried ProjectOffice.net as well.

I agree, the bug tracking is pretty good, and I also liked the Wiki. Attachments can be handy when u r doing multiple interactions.

I bet they’ll be coming up with options for multiple proejcts soon.

If they had versioning, that would be even better as well.

By: Mark Phillips

Mark Phillips — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 00:19:51 +0000

You may also want to check out Vertabase 4 project management softare at http://www.vertabase.com (our app).

There’s a free trial on the site.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:24:37 +0000

Sorry, even I need to sleep sometimes :)

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 09:11:18 +0000

done ;)

Looks like I’m talking to myself ;)

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 08:59:31 +0000

I’m lazy, please add a linkj from your post :-)