TaskFreak, a simple and efficient Task Managment solution

Hello,

Since the beginning of the month, I am working in a lovely company named rom.fr, where I develop/integrate solutions for our customers but also investigate for cutting-edge and open source technologies.
One of the needs of our company is to enhance the task managment in the different departments.

We need:
- Simple and easy interface that can be managed in minutes from the commercials to the developers.
- Assign tickets by projects
- Handle time spend on the tasks
- Multi users

Over the web there are numerous solutions but my preference always goes to open source systems which give more freedom to customize the solution for our specific needs.

In the open source field there are really a lot of solutions which are worth looking to, but I selected 3 of them:

- Task Coach : It consists of a simple software to install on your computer, and look pretty good. The 3 main advantages in my opinion is that it works on most OS, it can be synchronized with calendar systems on Internet as ScheduleWorld, and finally can be installed on a removable disk (Like USB key).

- OneOrZero : Multi-users (Web based), it also contains a knowledge base system. I believe it can address most of companies needs, but the interface isn't as easy to manage as it should be (Task list needs to be veeeeery simple, cause it's a simple thing which doesn't need to get complicated).
Good system but may be too big?

- Task Freak : Ultra simple interface, enhanced by ajax allowing a great and fast interaction. Because it is a web based system, it makes very easy to follow tasks per user. Furthermore, there are many plugins to add key functionalities as time spent on tasks, or files attachment.

For our needs, I think Task Freak is the most suitable, sincerely check the interface, it's so simple and efficient!
But I will keep an eye on OneOrZero which can be a possible solution for more complexe needs.

I will give updates on this blog on how TaskFreak use goes within the company

Some more Open Source Task Managment systems:

• Sourceforge ToDo List
• SourceForge Time Tracking

Best Regards,
Clem