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If you use Microsoft Project,
you might want to seriously consider three alternatives that run
completely on the Web. In addition to supporting more contemporary
features right now, and getting updated with even newer gadgets more
frequently than Microsoft can muster, these products, being completely
Web-based, offer much more robust collaboration tools.
First up: Liquid Planner. We saw this product at Demo 2008 but it will be on stage again at the Under the Radar
conference that I'm moderating on Thursday. This tool's special sauce
is its embrace of uncertainty. Users can put in best-case and
worst-case estimates for their tasks, and the product combines all the
estimates to tell you how likely you are to make deadlines, and also
which sub-tasks are the most critical to achieving project goals.
Then there's Clarizen,
the 2.0 version of which comes out this week. This product has a very
nice, very Web 2.0 user interface, but what I like best about it that
most users will never see the UI: managers can set up projects on the
Clarizen site, but people responsible for delivering on those projects
never have to use it. The product sends e-mail queries that users can
update directly, bypassing the main site and the $50 monthly per-user
fee as well.
Finally, there's the specialized Mumboe,
which we'll also see at Under the Radar. This is a Web-based "CLM"
(contract lifecycle management) app, but it's apparently one of the
first to have a completely free subscription tier. The tool tracks the
documents that go into a business agreement, and lets you specify start
and end dates, deliverables, commitments, and tracking metrics. You can
delegate tasks, of course, and also see your entire list of
deliverables and commitments on one dashboard screen. Mumboe will also
be at Under the Radar.

Join me at Under the Radar!
I stink at project management and can't offer an expert opinion on
these products, but I do think that if you are a project management
software user, you might want to try one of these Web-based tools. Of
course, don't forget to also check out Basecamp.
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