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Project Management with Google Apps?

By darrel hawes | April 22, 2008

There are hordes of free and non-free project management tools available, especially online.

If someone wants a reliable system and doesn’t want to spring for Basecamp or any of the other myriad of systems available, what is he or she to do?

Well, with the addition of Google Sites to the Google Apps suite, we have one more option to try out. I’ll be giving it a shot for one of my projects.

While it’s not a true project management system, it does provide an easy way to create new projects (simply create a new site) and group all the required files in one place. You can easily create pages with lists or whatever you need to track with the built-in page templates.

Some of the helpful links I found:

http://www.enterprise-dashboard.com/2008/02/29/google-sites-dashboards-project-management-dashboard-example

http://sites.google.com/a/altostrat.com/project-eggplant/Home

https://uto.asu.edu/blog/2008/02/29/strap-on-your-rocket-shoes-google-sites-for-asu

http://meetings.abanet.org/ltrc/index.cfm?data=20080317 (scroll down to the second post)

Topics: productivity, tools |

2 Responses to “Project Management with Google Apps?”

  1. Michael Kariv Says:
    April 23rd, 2008 at 1:45 am

    Take a look at gGanttic. It is a PM (Gantt actually) on top of Google Spreadsheet. Still buggy but has a potential.
    (Fair disclosure: I wrote it, out of frustration with MS Project)

  2. darrel hawes Says:
    April 23rd, 2008 at 6:38 am

    Michael,

    Thanks for that. I’ll give your app a try.

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