Project management software with a specific output

October 17, 2018 7:10 PM

I work for small SaaS company, where we have a number of clients for whom we need to track project previews & launches. Typically in the range of 1-10 a week. We've worked out this spreadsheet to track this. As you can imagine this is a pain to update, but it does give us a very clear picture of upcoming workload. Is there any project management software or something else that can give me a similar output?

Self hosted, desktop or web based are all OK.
Free is good, cheap works too.
Does not need lot of bells and whistles besides what I'm trying to accomplish.

Help me out green.

posted by pyro979 to Technology (6 answers total)

Are you looking for more f ormalized Gantt-style graphics? Have you looked at MS Project? It's more for critical path planning, but you could absolutely track this kind of thing in it.
posted by uberchet at 7:41 PM on October 17, 2018

Wrike is something that I explored for this type of work.
posted by ellerhodes at 7:44 PM on October 17, 2018

GanttPro, ntask, or maybe Workbook.
posted by Kalatraz at 10:30 PM on October 17, 2018

Asana has a new-ish Timeline/Gantt chart view that may work for you. The app is free to try, though unfortunately the Timeline view requires upgrading to a paid plan.
posted by ourobouros at 7:10 AM on October 18, 2018

Where I work we use Jira. (which I don't actually like). At one point, it had a way to request all the information about project via a web API. I wrote a small script to stick this in a spreadsheet that included a timeline like you show and a sheet with per-person workloads. One critical aspect was a library that created a spreadsheet and not just CSV so that sheets and equations could be used.

I don't specifically suggest Jira. I do suggest that you if you can get the data out of the project management system, you should be able to present it in the format you need. Once it is in a spreadsheet the business folks should be able to run with it and do what they want.
posted by bdc34 at 7:29 AM on October 18, 2018

I've used Gnome Planner for standard Gantt purposes and it's extremely free and bell/whistle-free.
posted by rhizome at 11:44 AM on October 18, 2018