Friday, April 29, 2011

Which Gantt chart/Project management tool would you recommend for linux?

I need a Project management tool that works in Linux, and has Gantt charts.

  1. It doesn't have to be free, just not expensive.
  2. I don't care how it stores the information I give it, as long as I can access it.
  3. I must be able to print the Gantt charts.
  4. Must work in Linux.

With those requirements, what can you recommend?

TheObserver asked a windows specific version of this question here.

Thanks for the help everyone.

From stackoverflow
  • The answers to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/171809/is-there-any-latex-package-for-drawing-gantt-diagrams. may be viable.

    J.J. : Interesting. Is "gantt" the proper spelling? If so, that would explain why I didn't find that question.
    Aaron Maenpaa : [Wikipedia says yes!](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart)
  • You could try http://live.gnome.org/Planner maybe it satisfy your needs. :)

  • Planner, and OpenSched, in that order. There are some decent online Gantt (this is the correct spelling) chart tools online as well, usually integrated within a project management or bug-tracking web app or software package.

  • I use TaskJuggler - it's more powerful than other OSS software I've tried, but it's very complicated. It's the only software I found that could do what I needed, but I still consider it to be "best of a bad bunch". I too wouldn't mind paying, if I could be sure the software would do everything I needed.

    The big flaw with planner seems to be around resource leveling/allocation but I admit I haven't looked deeply into it. Planner would be my second choice.

  • You could also try some of the web-based project management tools. These days they fare quite well to the desktop alternatives. I can recommend dotProject. It's a nice, easy to use tool and it has printable gantt charts.

    Amos : Although I like and use dotProject, it has issues with Gantt Charts when the project gets above a certain level of complexity (it just fails to generate them).
    Ivan Peevski : You can increase the memory allowed in PHP (System Configuration has a setting to set how much memory to use for gantt chart generation) and it should be fine after that.
  • Also check Redmine.

  • Ganttproject is written in java and works on every platform.

  • Tthese guys, http://www.planningforce.com/ have used this pretty excellently. check it out.

  • I also use pf to make my plans ;) (http://www.planningforce.com)

  • If you are looking for simple Gantt Chart control in asp.net i recommend jsGantt.It's purely written in javascript ript,html,css and very fast.Also easy to integrate with any of the language in web. Here is a good tutorial of using jsGantt in ASP.net Here in CodeGlobe

  • Also, check out Clarizen online project management software. You can access work management over the web anytime, anywhere.

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