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Ask HN: What software do you use for project and resource management?

12 points by ipunchghosts ↗ HN
I am wondering what folks are using for project and resource management (e.g. MS project, Project Libre, etc)

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Kinnard
Pomotodo!
ipunchghosts
Can you use this to find out how much a person is tasked?
Kinnard
How much time there spending on what. You can even calculate the ROI of time investments.
mgberlin
I use RowStack.com, it's my project.
memonkey
We use Wrike at current job. I use Asana for side projects.
pestaa
We use Wrike too. Getting rid of it completely can't happen soon enough.
tonteldoos
What level of functionality do you require? The solutions mentioned below (and in your question) provide quite a wide range.

Are you trying to track a team, or a single person? Do you want to use it to plan (at full project manager level) multiple projects, or do you just need to see where you're at with a handful of projects?

ipunchghosts
I need to track tasks over several members of a team.
iamtrying
Use Google Drive? its old school you have excel, words, drawing.
ipunchghosts
I cant level tasks and see if resources are overallocated.
jbchoo
It's interesting to see such thread asking abt project mgt tools. Some time last year in forum like reddit or hn (cant rmb), i rmb seeing similar thread and i saw Trello mentioned many times.

At here i don't even see trello.

manibatra
Using Asana. Integrates nicely with Slack.
fidz
We use Phabricator and Scrum Sprint Plugin from Mediawiki. It fits our workflow. IMO, it is a hybrid between Pivotal Tracker and JIRA.
e19293001
If you're using emacs. Check out org-mode. With org-mode, you can organize everything in plain text.
romanr
hiTask.com - simple project management dashboard.
SyneRyder
On the Mac, Merlin Project [1] and OmniPlan [2] might be worth a look. They've both been around a long time and seems to be the MS Project equivalent for Mac. Not having a PC version is a pain though.

On the web, Harvest Forecast [3] looked tempting, but I haven't dived into using it. I love Harvest for my solo time accounting though.

For solo projects, I really like Mr Schedule [4] and its keyboard driven outliner type interface (inspired by Joel Spolsky's Painless Software Schedules). It doesn't do resource management, so is unlikely to be helpful to you (but maybe to someone else here). Sadly it seems abandoned & requires Java, so I've been making my own cross-platform clone of it (just for my own use for now).

I tried ProjectLibre and it just felt horribly, horribly broken.

I wish someone would make a decent Android tablet app for project management, bonus points if it supported the Samsung Galaxy S-Pen for reordering tasks etc. I tried several Android apps & didn't find anything I liked.

[1] http://projectwizards.net/en/products/merlin-project/what-is

[2] https://www.omnigroup.com/omniplan

[3] https://www.getharvest.com/forecast

[4] http://pietschy.com/products/mr-schedule/screenshots.html