Project.net

Project.net is a web based, open source project and portfolio management application. It’s excellent at collaborative project execution which means that it will help your teams to work together to improve your project performance. It’s good at web-based MS project style work plans in that it can manage your large work plans that most web-based PPM systems have most trouble with.

It also does excellent reporting that you can take advantage of. Project.net will allow your users to increase their project’s performance and productivity while still managing to cut costs. It offers discussion groups where your project managers and team members can engage in discussions about each project. The program allows your users to attach documents and link them to project objects within discussion messages. Your project manager is allowed to view who has and who has not read each message in a discussion.

Project.net emphasizes a more collaborative (bottom-up) approach to your project management rather than the centralized planning (top-down). With Project.net you are allowed to create large projects, deliverable checklists, lifecycle processes, scheduling projects and also to create project reports through email. It also allows you to create templates for your projects, to track bugs, goals, risks and more in the program’s databases.

The program gives your company a great price-to-value ratio because its available for free and has many excellent features at your disposal. Project.net is best for start-up companies, IT, and enterprises that require a detailed project management option for their software.

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