IT Project Management Tools Available for Use at the Utah Dept. of Health

The sooner you begin coding the later you finish.

What is not documented has not been said.

The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time the last 10% takes the other 90%.

Fast - cheap - good: you can have any two.

If it wasn't for the “last minute”, nothing would get done.

Chris PrattUSIIS Technical Manager

cpratt@utah.gov

8/25/2010

IT Project Management Tools Available for Use at the Utah Dept. of Health

Changepoint RedMine Microsoft Project PHAccess Wiki

ChangepointIT Portfolio Management

An enterprise solution which tries to manage everything related to an IT initiative.

Portfolio Management Department goals, Project management,

Activities or tasks Resource Management

IT Staff, Time Sheets, Expenses, Billing Accounts

Contacts Knowledge Search

ChangepointIT Portfolio Management

Purchased by DTS Enterprise-wide product Currently used for time sheets by all DTS

employees Plans to expand use to other features?

ChangepointIT Portfolio Management

Pros A single product that does it all Web accessible

Cons Works with Windows IE only Expensive Complicated Non-intuitive

RedmineFlexible Project Management

A flexible open source project management web application written using Ruby on Rails framework

Has a large following and ample documentation online.

Installed at The Dept. of Health

RedmineFlexible Project Management

Features Flexible role based access control Issue creation via email Gantt chart and calendar News, documents, and files management Feeds and email notifications Per project wiki and forums Time tracking Custom fields

RedmineFlexible Project Management

Pros Open Source Web accessible Back-end independent Customizable

Cons Could be made more user friendly

Microsoft Office ProjectBetter Scheduling organization

Commonly used for its project schedule features

Quickly and easily create a project schedule and assign tasks to staff

Microsoft also offers Project Server and Project Portfolio Server for more comprehensive project and portfolio management.

Microsoft Office ProjectBetter Scheduling organization

Pros Easy to use Clear and well organized information Gantt charts

Cons Low on features More difficult to share between users

PHAccessA Custom UDOH Solution

An evolving UDOH IT tool integrating project management into a simple project tracking/management web application

Developed in-house by Jon Reid Written in PHP, using a MySQL backend Feature enhancements driven by UDOH

personnel Https://health.utah.gov/phaccess

PHAccessA Custom UDOH Solution

Pros UMD authentication Highly customizable Clear user interface Web accessible

Cons Low on features

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