[UPHPU] Project Queue: Request for Opinions

[Jonathan Duncan]

On 18 Feb 2010, at 12:19, Ed Felt wrote:

> I have found myself more of a passive reader of posts on this site lately,
> and it has been very informative.  I want to pick your collective brains on
> a request my manager has made:
> 
> "Subject: Queue
> Have either of you found something that will work for this. The more I think
> about it does need to be more than a spreadsheet because I need to have
> multiple people be able to input items to the queue and want it to be very
> widely accessed. So, almost a data base type thing with a web access. Should
> time stamp the date of the entry a requested by date. Then it would be nice
> if it could notify me of new entry."
> 
> Basically, he wants something of a "Software Engineering Project Queue" for
> our small Software Engineering department that several managers can request
> projects to, prioritize etc...  He also wants us to be able to update our
> progress on items and estimate completion times.  I would prefer something
> PHP/MySQL based since that is my forte :).  I have all ready tried
> PHProjekt, (as I have used it in the past), but my manager found it lacking
> in the "estimated time to complete" feature as well as far more than we
> needed otherwise.
> 

If you want something that also integrates with your version control, check out Unfuddle ( http://unfuddle.com/ ).