Free and Open Source Project Management Tools

Whether a new project manager or an experienced leader project management is an omnipresent challenge for many. Thus, men and women have spent large amounts of time inventing methods and tools to help bring the projects they manage to a successful completion. Project managers of today can choose between the many different tools available to them. Some of the tools are proprietary; some are open source; and others are simply made freely available. For the more budget-conscious, free sounds great. But they must remember that nothing is truly 'free.' Any tool will take time and effort to manage and implement. The tool that best fits a particular project manager will depend on their individual requirements, and those requirements will change based on each manager's style and the project at hand. However, it is still beneficial to look at what other project managers find important. Once a manager knows their requirements, it is time to decide which software will meet them. In order to do that they must research the types of tools that exist.