I was able to rescue this from my iPad.* I wrote it all on my iPad using BlogPress. I think it was the second or third time I used the app but right now I guess it is just not usable on the iPad running iOS 5. I hope the developers fix it, because I really like the app. Well, for the little I have used it, I have liked.
* I was able to get a autosave of the entry after attaching my iPad to iTunes and browsing the "File Sharing" section under the "Apps" menu. Still frustrated though!
Over the past year our ability to take on and execute on projects has really taken off. One of the key reasons for this has been the growth of the team in terms of numbers and their own abilities. I am pretty impressed and thrilled by this development. We are more and more capable of showing that we can deliver value to AMPATH.
AMPATH IT has always had more projects than we can handle and nothing has really changed, we are still inundated. As for the projects that we are currently working on, we are doing our best. Effectively managing them takes more effort than it really should.
We really need help in two areas. The first is to bring on one or more qualified Project Managers and the other is to identify a good multiuser Project Management (PM) software. As with most programs operating in constrained areas, we don't have vast financial resources to draw on to purchase a piece of commercial software.* As such, I have been looking for the best open source PM software available.
* Even if we had more financial resources, I would opt to invest in other areas right now. Like more infrastructure and better support tools.
We have looked at have tried Redmine and found it to be decent though limited. There is little support for managing resources and well overall I find it to be more oriented to software development tasks than say more general PM needs. I have sort of made it work for us, but I do find it to be a bit frustrating.
I am now starting to test out Project-Open (PO), another open source PM software.* On the surface this software is pretty powerful and I think it can meet many of our needs. Though the Gantt charting is pretty poor. I am hoping that PO folks improve on this.
* PO also has a commercial version of the software that offers more support options and I assume other nice things.
So the plan is for me to spend some time testing this software and if it proves useful, I will bring on others to test out the multi-user features. My sense is that this will provide the features we need, but it will require a fair amount of tweaking to really prove its worth.*
* This is an area where we could really benefit from an outside consultant/implementor to help get this software (or any other PM title we choose) to take on this work. Let them devote 60 days or so of work to get us up and running. It would save us a lot of time and energy.
In addition to testing PO, I will continue my search for good PM software. If anyone has any suggestions, it would be most welcome.
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