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Comment MproLite and ManagePro help (Score 1) 428

by Coordinated on Thursday December 17, 2009 @07:47PM (#30481248) Attached to: What Does Everyone Use For Task/Project Tracking?

I work in an environment where I have many appointments, projects and phone interruptions. I like ManagePro and MproLite. I have projects that are quick and projects that last years with multiple steps. I can easily pick right back where I left off. I have notes on where I left off in as progress notes and what the next task needs to be. I know every conversation I had, who was my contact and every email we exchanged. I drag the email from Outlook right into ManagePro and also I can sync with Outlook. I attach my documents and keep everything in one place. I have all my projects for years in one database and can search for anything in seconds. It actually is a task list on steroids and much better tracking. It can be desktop app or a web app. I sleep better because I use it.

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JerBear0

on Wednesday December 16, 2009 @04:30PM

JerBear0 writes: "I work as the sole IT employee at a company of about 50 people. I handle programming, support, pretty much anything that is IT related, or even that plugs in. As seems to be true with many small companies, the priorities seem to shift quite frequently. As a result, I've always got multiple programming (both new systems and improvements/changes to existing systems), integration, research, maintenance tasks/projects on my To Do list, in varying stages of completion. At any given time, I need to be able to jump back to one of these items and pick up where I left off.

I am currently using Outlook Tasks, and then end up referencing my notebook and email for those dates to figure out exactly where I left off. It works, but not well. If its been a while, I'll end up losing an hour or two just tracking everything down. I looked at using MS Project / OpenProj, but they want an individual file for each project, and I want at least the project/task list all on one screen.

Essentially what I'd want would be a Task List on steroids, allowing for hierarchal subtasks, attachments, and prioritization. Ideally it would be a desktop app, but a locally-hostable web app would be okay. In some of these projects I may want to include proprietary information, which I really don't want floating out in the cloud outside of my control.

I know I'm not alone in this problem, so what do you guys (gals) use to address this?"

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