How are we defining "project management" software for this wiki? Nearly any planning/productivity software could come under the category "project management". Should SharePoint and Google Sites be added to this list? Some of the tools here would not be considered true project management applications with the functionality needed by traditional project managers in the PMP / Prince2 mold. Since most attorneys and legal support professionals (outside of litsupport staff managing massive e-discovery projects) do not have any training and little exposure to traditional project management, it is doubtful that the distinction matters to most. After all, how many attorneys are going to want to calculate the critical path for a legal matter? (Answer: those which want to move beyond the billable hour and need more sophisticated time estimation tools.)
I suppose that we needn't split hairs and can't merely list here any software and SaaS products that advertise themselves as "project management" applications, whether they are full featured PM tools or merely glorified task management applications.
Since the Collaboration Tools page cannot be edited, I've put a link to a page I created, called "Task Management" here. I think, however, that it would be more appropriate to have it linked to from the top-level tools page.
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Paul C. Easton said
at 6:40 am on Aug 31, 2008
How are we defining "project management" software for this wiki? Nearly any planning/productivity software could come under the category "project management". Should SharePoint and Google Sites be added to this list? Some of the tools here would not be considered true project management applications with the functionality needed by traditional project managers in the PMP / Prince2 mold. Since most attorneys and legal support professionals (outside of litsupport staff managing massive e-discovery projects) do not have any training and little exposure to traditional project management, it is doubtful that the distinction matters to most. After all, how many attorneys are going to want to calculate the critical path for a legal matter? (Answer: those which want to move beyond the billable hour and need more sophisticated time estimation tools.)
I suppose that we needn't split hairs and can't merely list here any software and SaaS products that advertise themselves as "project management" applications, whether they are full featured PM tools or merely glorified task management applications.
Paul C. Easton said
at 6:48 am on Aug 31, 2008
Since the Collaboration Tools page cannot be edited, I've put a link to a page I created, called "Task Management" here. I think, however, that it would be more appropriate to have it linked to from the top-level tools page.
Tom Mighell said
at 8:25 pm on Mar 31, 2009
I've created a separate Tasks and To Do Lists page, and have moved the Task Management links over there.
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