Kick Butt Project Management with Assembla

A few days ago I blogged about Tools for Better Project Management and Organization and this post offers an alternative application for project management. As I mentioned in my pervious post, I highly recommend RedMine as your web based project manager. RedMine is great if you want something that you have complete control over. With complete control however, come the pain of having to install it, configure it and worry about backups. So today, as a part of a project I am involved in, I set on a quest to find something that would be as good as RedMine but without the installation and configuration involved. After evaluating a few different web based project management application (Unfuddle, CodeSpaces, and a few other not worth mentioning), I tried Assembla. I had put in on my list to evaluate a while ago so it was not a new find but I am sorry I did not try it earlier. I am not going to get into much detail on the features but I have to say, the number of features is impressive. Best of all you get all this including 500mb of space for free! Here is a quick overview:

The start page:

The dashboard

 

Time entry

Milestones

Online chat

Files repository

Wiki

Trac/SVN integration

Images repository

Blog integration with Mephisto

Alerts

Additional add-ons