Time Budgets

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avatar troy Jan 23. 2010. 1:54 am #21
Having used project management tools for 13 years, I have found they each miss something major. This one is missing the estimate/actual budget element which is critical to small businesses. Entire departments can be eliminated if they cannot prove that they deliver projects on budget.
Microsoft Project never handled it well through version 2003 Enterprise either and depended on another application to do it any justice. Just keep in mind the balancing act that all PM's must do well at to survive: manage scope, budget, and schedule.
avatar bryanw Feb 4. 2010. 1:23 am #22
We are evalutating this now for use corporate wide as a contractor/integrator, but we need to be able to track time against budget by task & milestone. Has anyone developed a module to do this yet or has Active Collab been working on this to include in a release? Please let me know as this affects whether or not we will be able to use Active Collab.
avatar rickdronkers Mar 3. 2010. 3:07 pm #23
We are also open to collaborate on this module! No need to reinvent the wheel ;)
avatar Apps Magnet - Nirav Mehta Pro Mar 3. 2010. 8:06 pm #24
FWIW, Planning module for activeCollab allows you to estimate time for tasks, milestones, tickets, checklists and pages. You can the use activeCollab's time tracking feature to add time to these items. Coming back to Planning module will show you the actual vs estimated time for each item.

It will even total up the estimates / actual times.

HTH.
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