Manage Your Projects on the Web with Peago
If your projects are getting big enough that you need to graduate from using Excel to track tasks and dates to a full-blooded project management program, then you might already be considering Microsoft Project. But that's sort of like launching a nuke when waving a spear around might do. Peago, for example, is the latest in the current generation of Web-based project management tools that can help you take control of even deeply complex projects for free.
Peago is a gorgeous-looking project management program that runs in your browser. It is Flash-based, so you can use it much like a desktop app -- you can create tasks, for example, and drag and drop them to assign them to people and resources. You can slide work items around a Gantt Chart-like display to set due dates and modify the schedule.
I like Peago's overall layout and the fact that you can easily incorporate work items, links, files, and notes into your project, plus see a traditional Gantt representation of your project. On the other hand, I encountered a few bugs that required refreshing the Web page - not cool - and there's no mobile equivalent, so you can't use Peago on a mobile phone.
The site is free for a single project, but there are a variety of pricing plans that range from $19/month for 7 projects and 2GB of storage space to $139/month for unlimited projects and 30GB of storage (with several increments in between). [via WebWorkerDaily]
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