I am at a stage in my career where I'm beginning to look beyond technical and functional skills that are required to make it big in an organisation. Project management is going to be an eventual step in my career someday, but will try to push it away for as long as I can. I started looking at project management software available and was astounded by the number of players in the market. Microsoft project plans(MPP) are a thing of the past and now the buzz word seems to be "colloborative project management". Create plans on the web that can be shared and updated by loads of people. It definitely is a big plus over MPPs where the thick desktop client never keeps you motivated enough to update your gantt charts. Sharing the plan with other stakeholders and making the whole process more transparent will definitely improve the chances of the project, better tracking real life events.
Clarizen seems to be the 3rd best tool after @Task and Daptive PPM (refer reviews). But I played around with the interface and it seems to be very easy to use. It includes various other enterprise level management tools like Billing, Expenses, Issues etc. I'm not sure how this can integrate well with already existing infrastructure in an organisation for such tasks. The only 3rd party integrations seems to be with MPP and Microsoft outlook. Are there others? What about other bug tracking tools, JIRA etc?
A lot of questions in my head at this stage. Is there a more specific suite of tools aligned to agile methodologies? Are there any open source ones out there? Are these specialised to IT development?
I'll find out and put my thoughts down.
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