What is the best collaborative Task manager

[micro72w]

Hello,

I have been searching for quite some time for a collaborative task manager for my work tasks. I would like to eventually role it out to the rest of my department. I am looking for a task list that can handle Projects and headings that allows subtasks to be added with calendar actions of start/end date, alarms. It should be able to have priorities that are set for the project in addition to over importance.

I have been looking at Google addons and have just not found the one that works for me. I have used some ticket based applications that where designed for software engineers but they never seem to fit the profile I need. I will add that I am not looking for something like Project. I want to clear my mind and desk of the multitude of lists that are recomposed every day. I have used the proverbial excel, access and word documents ... etc.

I just want to add items group them as needed by project, sub-title, importance. Add and subtract items for my coworkers yada yada yada. I recently went through the entire task management list of Google apps to find something, the best I found was ZOHO Projects but it simple isn't there yet.

I would appreciate any thoughts and I am curious how everyone manages there tasks. I admit to being a process whore - if someone has a better way, I'm in

Thanks so much for the info.

 

[SnTMan]

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[boottmills]

I use the task section in Microsoft Office. It allows me to add tasks and assign them to others.

The other thing I use is a RAIL (Running Action Item List) which helps me to keep tabs on what I have on my plate as well as what others have on their plate. I include the owner/PM, who it is assigned to, date due, any notes, priority, and the date that the action is closed. I will also use this to track project costs when it is necessary. It helps with large projects that have many people working on different components. I use Excel to do this.

Boottmills

 

[DRWeig]

Campfire worked well for my company. Toughest part was getting all the participants to use it.

Good on ya,

Goober Dave

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[TheTick]

Toughest part was getting all the participants to use it.

That's what I learned about Sharepoint: it only works if you work it.

 

[boottmills]

I think that is true of any system that you will use. If you don't have buy-in from everyone, it won't work as well as it could.

Boottmills