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Process: Just another Project manager

I have been working with a review version of Jumsoft’s Process, which is a task manager and project management tool. As always, I am looking at this in terms of managing my personal projects rather than managing group or corporate projects.

The functions

Basically, this is a task manager, where tasks are grouped under projects. Tasks can be assigned to different people and progress can be tracked to a degree. Tasks can also sync with iCal. There is a simple and intuitive interface. It has pretty bars and visual effects. It is “mac-like.” So far, so good.

I was starting to think this might be a good informal personal project manager.

However, there is very little project planning interface. By this I mean the planning of the project - the vision, the aim, the reason, the supporting notes, the deadline and interested parties. I already have a task manager, as I imagine a lot of people do. So this simply replicates a system I already have.

The verdict

This project planner may work well for groups with multiple deliverables and multiple responsibilities. However, It doesn’t suit personal project planning at all. I can understand removing the Gantt charts, timelines and graphing for most projects, but it gets a bit too lassez faire/genY when you remove any interface for overall vision and plan. I’m not saying I use this stuff all the time, or as much as I should, but that is what I need when I choose to plan a project.

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