Comindwork
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008Comindwork is offered as a hosted or self-hosted web-based project management tool. It offers basic project management features for multiple projects, including tasks, blog, wiki, milestones/calender, tickets and document management.
The experience started well with some simple customisation offered (logo, company details, change the skin, etc.) Creating projects and adding team members was also simple. Things became more complicated when trying to actually run projects. The blog, which is more like a forum, is wiki based and for non technical users this is quite disorientating. For example, I included an attachment and was surprised when the path of the link was inserted in the middle of my body text. It is also not possible to insert pictures. The document management section is also too techy. For example, you cannot include spaces in folder names and some system folders (for blog and wiki posts) share the same space. There is also no versioning function for uploaded documents.
I stopped testing at this point as it was clear that it didn’t meet my requirements. The system is fairly expensive for something so techy orientated. Such levels of functionality can easily be obtained with free solutions. An upside is that the people behind it seem keen to provide services, so some of these niggles could be ironed out with some consultancy time (and money!)
The search continues…
