April 28, 2005 at 6:29 am
This is a SQL question and a bit more. I've been developing a database solution for a company for the past several years, predominantly Sql2k with data access through custom.net apps. I've been the only one on my projects for the last several years, so project management and bug tracking were spreadsheets I kept in excel.
We have recently hired a few more programmers, and it looks like I'll be integrating my systems more and more with another programmer who built a sales system on the other side of the company. My side is the corporate software... data retrieval, data storage, data management, data analysis, internal corporate processes. The other side of our software world is the POS system for our retail stores.
We are a house of 5 developers and many corporate bosses. We all use sql2000 back ends. I use vb.net almost exclusively for my front ends, asp.net where it has to be web based. I also use third party tools like Farpoint and Xceed. The other programmer in my team (recent hire) uses the same tools, and leans towards asp.net using c#. We work closely on at least a dozen different projects that may or may not become one big ERP type project. We plan to upgrade to sql2k5 and visual studio 2k5 when they are in release. We're playing with the technology now. The other half of the company (one senior and 2 new developers) use vb6 for their front end, but have a planed upgrade to vb.net 1.1 or 2.0 in 4th quarter. Their project is one large program.
We need help finding software, and advice, on knitting together our projects, and the other developer doesn’t want to use visual source safe, and I don’t think I blame him. He also doesn’t want to use Microsoft project, because it seems too cumbersome.
I would like to find bug tracking software that is possibly web based, and hopefully inexpensive. The more features for less cost is obviously better, however unrealistic. I've got a couple dozen users on the corporate side, and we have 180+ stores, and growing all the time. I would like to start making my life easier, and my data more manageable, and then bring the rest of the team in. I probably need to prove to them that it works first.
Any gurus out there who have nailed this... or anybody who has an opinion (that’s more than just a guess)... your advice would be so helpful, and appreciated.
thanks
chris
April 28, 2005 at 7:45 am
I haven't used it myself, but FogBugz gets a lot of good word of mouth referrals for bug tracking software. Check out http://www.joelonsoftware.com for more info. There are several good forums on his site in addition to the programs and several articles by Joel Splosky (sp?) on software engineering, etc.
April 28, 2005 at 10:22 pm
Another product to look at is Team Coherence (http://www.qsc.co.uk/). A fellow programmer tried out quite a few products and this one was the one we went with. It worked well for us.
April 29, 2005 at 3:15 am
Red-gate.com have a net based bug-tracking application (hosted and inhouse versions or so I read)....they also produce the SQL Compare product.
April 29, 2005 at 9:45 am
All the software in the world will not help (no matter how good it is or it's review or cost) unless there is 'management'. Primarily I mean project management (your many corporate bosses) need to appoint one person to oversee things and act as liason to simplify things. Secondly, your project(s) need direction (coprporate policy/standards/etc) to determine what software/platforms/processess to utilize for the benefit of the organization. Again, this is a project management responsibility. Well, now I'll step off of the soap box ...
RegardsRudy KomacsarSenior Database Administrator"Ave Caesar! - Morituri te salutamus."
April 29, 2005 at 11:48 pm
Thanks for all your help folks... I think fogbugz looks pretty good. We have management in our organization. I manage one side, and we have a non-programmer managing the other. I need organization tools. We have bugz cropping up here and there, and we need a better way to delegate, double-check, prioritize, analyze, etc.
btw, where can I get my own soapbox?
thanks
chris
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