Comments | rivergdss: There are too many balls in the air. Where's my umbrella?

rivergdss

There are too many balls in the air. Where's my umbrella?

Oct 22, 2007 16:26

I'm appealing to the collective wisdom of LiveJournal to help me get organized at work. A growing proportion of my job follows this pattern ( Read more... )

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mcroft October 22 2007, 20:46:21 UTC

You need an issue tracking package. Commercial ones like ClearQuest work well, but cost thousands per seat.

Fogbugz is also nice for this, and much cheaper: http://fogcreek.com/FogBugz/

Bugzilla is free, but hard to configure.

rivergdss October 22 2007, 23:11:37 UTC

Those are impressive, but they are more complicated than what I need. I am looking for something for my personal tracking, not a tracking system for the project.

kriz1818 October 22 2007, 21:06:58 UTC

If it was me, I'd probably build an Excel spreadsheet for the purpose.

But you might be able to adapt Spacejock Software's Sonar program to your purpose. It's originally designed for tracking short story subsmissions, but if you pretend "submitted" = "sent out for approvals" and "sold" = "document issued" it might work.

And it's completely FREE.

rivergdss October 22 2007, 23:22:14 UTC

I thought about a spreadsheet, but I've tried that a few times and failed.

Sonar looks like it's worth a download and trial. Thanks for the tip!