Project Management with Unfuddle

More recently, SmashingMagazine published a very useful selection of web-based project management tools 15 Useful Project Management Tools , but at the same time missed, in my personal opinion, one of the best projects of this kind Unfuddle

Unfuddle - does not pretend to be a navigator and at first glance it’s completely impossible boast compared to other projects.

What can u offer

• Git or svn repositories, each project can have several repositories
• Mileston and Ticket, with a standard set of features - assignment of statuses, responsible, dates, project components and their versions. Tickets can be closed when committing to the repository using special syntax
• A local Wiki equivalent called Notebooks
• Messages that act as bulletin boards
• Overview for each project and all projects at once
• API that allows you to manage all the functions of Unfuddle
• Reports - ticket samples by criteria
• Time spent reports
• Member Access Control

And that's all. A logical question arises, and why is this system so good? First of all, in Unfuddle, everything works as intuitively and simply as a good tool should work, which you don’t notice at work and perceive as part of yourself. It is felt that over each element of the system they thought for a long time and productively, as a result - to perform any action requires a minimum number of steps.

Cons (where without them):

• No i18n - and when it appears unknown, the authors promise, but not in a hurry.
• Perhaps this is IMHO, but the criteria for separation by tariffs are not the most reasonable.
• The inability to create combined Ticket statuses and required fields
• Limited wiki syntax for Notebooks

Small resume

In my opinion, Unfuddle is perfect for software developers in small and medium teams both in the web and other areas. We have been using it for several months, working as a parraller on a large project managed within the framework of BaseCamp, and up to this point we have tried about 10 different other systems. Neither BaseCamp, nor other project tools provided such pleasure from working as Unfuddle.