15 Useful Project Management Tools. Advertisement by Cameron Chapman There is a huge variety of project management applications out there.
15 Best Free Open Source Project Management Applications and Tools ~ Blue Sky. Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Project. Microsoft Project is a project management software program, developed and sold by Microsoft, which is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads.
MS Project was the company’s third Microsoft Windows-based application, and within a couple of years of its introduction it became the dominant PC-based project management software. Although branded as a member of the Microsoft Office family, it never has been included in any of the Office suites (like Visio). It is available currently in two editions, Standard and Professional. MS Project’s proprietary file format is .mpp. 10 Popular Sites Like Gantter (Updated: Aug 24th.