Top 3 Best and Free Project Management Tools

Oct 12, 2010 by

Project management tools are essential tools that are required for various Industries. The resource management tools which are a part of the package provide an easy means of displaying required data and therefore helps the user come up with decisions faster.Some of these applications also provide project scheduling functionalities that keep you informed on progress and deadlines.


Open Workbench

Open Workbench is an advanced project management tool. It shares a lot of functions with Microsoft Project but with some fundamental differences.Some of the shared features include the ability to create a number of levels for the Work Breakdown Functions.

You can also create interdependencies between projects as as well as interdependencies between tasks within a project. Actuals, ETC’s (That’s Estimated time of completion), task status and % completion are some the ways to judge the progress of various projects. You also have the option of creating different views according to your managerial style. The fundamental difference though is that while Open Workbench is driven by resources MS Project is a task driven application. Open Workbench also schedules tasks based on resource availability. Overall, an excellent package with immense usability.

http://www.openworkbench.org/

Achievo

Achievo is a web based project management tool meant mainly for small and medium size businesses. Though you probably won’t find many of the features available in Open Workbench here, you might actually discover that you don’t really need them either. It does though have features like project planning which includes planning from the initial to the current stage. It also includes notes, charts and templates. CRM as well as Human Resource Management features are also present. A calendar and useful PIM features complete the whole package.

http://www.achievo.org/

GanttPV

GanttPV is another simple, Open Source, project m a n a g e m e n t tool. Though simple it features a number of useful tools for project manage m e n t .Here too you can define interdependencies as well as tasks and their duration.

Based on the data that is entered it generates Gantt charts which gives a graphical overview of the whole data. GanttPV can also be used to monitor productivity as well as expenses.

http://www.pureviolet.net/ganttpv/

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13 Comments

  1. Seo services Delhi

    Nice collection of free and best project management tools Shivendu Madhava you really rocks truly mine Internet marketing guru

  2. Web Hosting Delhi

    awesome post all 3 tools are working perfectly i like your post thanks for keeping me update

  3. Elaine

    This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks! :)

    • Shivendu Madhava

      Thanks Elaine for comment, glad to know you found something what you were looking for :)

  4. Deborah Fike

    Make sure to put Fellowstream on your list of project management tools to try out too!

    • Shivendu Madhava

      Thanks for comment and mentioning Fellowstream Here we have listed only top 3 :)

  5. Alberto

    I like Achievo – awesome tool for project management.

  6. Jim

    I would also suggest Gantter.com. It’s a free web-based project management software.

    • Shivendu Madhava

      Yea Gantter is really a good project management software Thanks for your comment but here we have listed top 3 :)

  7. Lucian

    In case you intend to write a future post about non free project management tools you should take a look at RationalPlan.

  8. Gerson Lapid

    Hi. Thank you for this great list of free project management tools, however in my point of view paid SaaS software offer better service.

  9. goa vacation

    Project management always comes up with some serious skill and requires work need to get done on the level up to nip . What surprises me now a days , we regularly read on this topic but still no clear idea about it. nevertheless a nice explanation given here from your side.

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