TOP FREE SOURCE PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE 1.

ACTION METHOD Action Method by Behance is a task-management methodology designed to help creative thinkers push their ideas forward. Based on the power of capturing and managing tasks you need to complete, Action Method ensures ideas are executed. From beautifully designed paper products, to Action Method Online, to Action Method for iPhone, this system of products works together to maximize productivity, organization, and accountability. Features: Capture Action Steps action Steps are tasks that need to be completed. Each Action Step should start with a verb: Call Y, Follow up with X, Buy a gift for Z. Delegate tasks you can delegate Action Steps to anyone with an email address. Once an Action Step is delegated, you can monitor its progress. Manage projects all of your items in Action Method online are organized by project. A project could be a client, a project at work, a party youre planning. Sync with mobile automatically sync with your mobile device to manage your tasks wherever you are. No wifi required 2. FREE CAMP Freedcamp offers unlimited user and unlimited project solution for everyone, completely free, forever. By offering an amazing web application Freedcamp believes there will finally be a standard in project management. Features: The dashboard is where you can get your morning cup of information about projects, important tasks, and recent activity. Discussions provide a forum-like experience, allowing you to create entries in a simple format. Use it to discuss ideas, give suggestions, and collaborate on the important things in life.

Milestones are a great way to keep your projects on track. Set dates for each milestone in your project and then try to complete it by the due date. Keeping track of time is a fundamental part of project management. This is where you can keep a record of the amount of time youve spent on a specific task 3. ONE HUB WORKSPACERS Onehub makes large file sharing easy. Secure, fast and easy to use file sharing for any size business. Manage projects, share files and collaborate with others. With Workspaces and Transfers products Onehub has solutions to help growing businesses work more efficiently by improving communication and information sharing. Features:Online Workspaces organize your files by team, project, client or file type its up to you. Content management workspaces is a simple and secure way to manage your documents, media and content online. Secure sharing share your Workspaces, folders or files with unlimited users on every plan, no per user fees. Real-time chat the ideal way to collaborate with your team in real-time. See who is online in your workspace. Project management software is not just for managing software based project. It can be used for variety of other tasks too. The web-based software must provide tools for planning, organizing and managing resources to achieve project goals and objectives. A web-based project management software can be accessed through an intranet or WAN / LAN using a web browser. You don't have to install any other software on the system. The software can be easy of use with access control features (multi-user). I use project management software for all of our projects (for e.g. building a new cluster farm) for issue / bug-tracking, calender, gantt charts, email notification and much more. Obviously I'm not the only user, the following open source software is used by some of the biggest research organizations and companies world wild. For example,

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory uses track software or open source project such as lighttpd / phpbb use redmine software to keep track of their projects.NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory uses track software or open source project such as lighttpd / phpbb use redmine software to keep track of their projects. You use the following top 10 software for personal or business use. Keep track of all your projects in one place and finish them successfully on time. #1: Codendi Codendi is an open-source collaborative development platform offered by Xerox. From only one interface, it gathers, all the needed tools for software development teams: management and versioning of code, bugs, requirements, documents, reporting, tests etc. It is mainly used for managing software project processes. #2: Redmine Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database. It includes calendar and gantt charts to aid visual representation of projects and their deadlines. #3: ProjectPier ProjectPier is a Free, Open-Source, self-hosted PHP application for managing tasks, projects and teams through an intuitive web interface. ProjectPier will help your organization communicate, collaborate and get things done Its function is similar to commercial groupware/project management products, but allows the freedom and scalability of self-hosting. #4: Trac Trac is an open source, web-based project management and bug-tracking tool. Trac allows hyperlinking information between a computer bug database, revision control and wiki content. It also serves as a web interface to a version control system like Subversion, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and Darcs. #5: Project HQ

Project HQ is a collaborative open source project management tool, similar to Basecamp and activeCollab. Project HQ is built on open source technologies like Python, Pylons and SQLAlchemy and is fully database independent. Project HQ uses a structured workflow to assist you in managing your projects. #6: Collabtive Collabtive is a web-based project management software that is being published as Open Source software. The project was started in November 2007. It strives to provide an Open Source alternative to proprietary tools like Basecamp or ActiveCollab. #7: eGroupWare eGroupWare is a free open source groupware software intended for businesses from small to enterprises. Its primary functions allow users to manage contacts, appointments, projects and to-do lists. It is used either via its native web-interface, making access platform-independent, or by using different supported groupware clients, such as Kontact, Novell Evolution, or Microsoft Outlook. It can also be used by mobile phone or PDA via SyncML. #8: KForge KForge is an open-source (GPL) system for managing software and knowledge projects. It re-uses existing best-of-breed tools such as a versioned storage (subversion), a tracker (trac), and wiki (trac or moinmoin), integrating them with the systems own facilities (projects, users, permissions etc). KForge also provides a complete web interface for project administration as well a fully-developed plugin system so that new services and features can be easily added. #9: OpenGoO It is a complete online solution focused on improving productivity, collaboration, communication and management of your teams. OpenGoo main features include document management, contact management, e-mail, project management, and time management. Text documents and presentations can be created and

edited online. Files can be uploaded, organized and shared, independent of file formats. #10: ClockingIT ClockingIT is a free Project Management solution, which helps your team stay focused and on top of things.

Educational goals: :: To develop key skills required in the project management process creativity, capacity to assess and prioritize items by level of importance; :: To learn about project management specifics and significance of overcoming problems and acting properly in difficult situations; :: To take advantage of resources and act on time;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT ONLINE GAMES

"Are you a good manager?" Topic: Youth project management Description: This game defies the player to make decisions at each level of the process of youth project management. The character is a nice funny mannikin that has to overcome difficulties and challenges at each stage. The game consists of 6 phases with 3 questions. The player has to solve various problems in order to move forward. In the end of the game the youngster will receive an assessment of their achievement and management skills. Educational goals: :: To provide information about the main phases of the Youth project management: Defining and planning, Fundraising, Project implementation, Dissemination, Evaluation and Reporting; :: To display eventual weaknesses and strengths in youth project management; :: To tolerate improve leadership and management skills.

"Project Management Test" Description: This game tests players knowledge on key issues related to project management. Questions are focused on practical aspects in the process of managing youth projects some detail about needs analysis, target groups, methodology. Drag the answers to their right places. The player can proceed to the next question only if the previous one is solved properly. Educational goals: :: To test the level of knowledge acquired in the frame of a training course or other type of youth activity; :: To improve the management skills of the player.

"LeaderSheep" Description: In this game you are the shepherd who has to guide 8 sheep through the town and take them to the train station. However, this is not an easy task. Each sheep represents a youngster (a boy or a girl) that has different interests and it is not easy task to look after all of them. You have to take in mind their individualities and prevent them from dangerous situations like street fight, smoking. You will see how difficult is to manage and guide young people with different interests, how challenging and responsible is the work of the youth worker and youth leader. Educational goals: :: To develop key skills required in the project management capacity to demonstrate leadership and prioritize items by level of importance; :: To acquaint with aspects of project management related to managing people and importance of teamwork; :: To learn more about interests of young people and think how to prevent some unwilling situations;

"Win the project" Topic: Youth project management Description: In this game, the player is a pilot of a space craft. His task is to bring back to Earth the information about the project Map of the Black Substance in the Universe, which has been stolen from extraterrestrials. The pilot should gather as much pieces of information as possible in each of the 4 Levels of the games. At the end of each level, he should decide which pieces of the obtained information to keep for the purposes of successful completion of the mission. Eliminate as many aliens as possible in order to get higher score and finally, get back all information about the stolen project.