Collaboration
- Google Docs
- Basecamp
- Open Atrium
- MediaWiki
- Google Sites
- EtherPad (PiratePad, TypeWith.me, Sync.in, iEtherPad)
- Skype
- GitHub
- Springloops
- PBWorks
- ideapi
- cohuman – collaborative, cloud based task/project manager
- Interstate – collaborative development roadmap tool
- byapp – collaborative, cloud based task manager
- asana – collaborative (online) task and project management tool
- Podio – collaborative task and project management tool
Issue & Bug Tracking
- Trac
- Google Code
- GitHub
- 16 Bugs
- Lighthouse – a bug- and issue-tracking app that tracks timelines and milestones
- No Kahuna – simple project management and issue-tracking platform
- JIRA – issue- and bug-tracking software
Documentation
Version Control System
Code/Project Hosting
Launch and Outreach
Miscellaneous Tools
- Cacoo – web based diagramming application
- Springloops – web based issue tracking, project deployment, and versioning
- Jumpchart – website planning application
- Beanstalk – private, secure Git and SVN repository hosting
- Gantto – online tool for creating Gantt charts
- TeamGantt – online tool for creating Gantt charts (for pay; 30 day free trial)
- Trello – online idea collaboration
- Projectflow – Easy Drag & Drop Project Tracking. A simple way to visualize and organize your projects.
Wireframe/Storyboard/Mockup Tools
- Balsamiq Mockups
- Mockingbird
- Mockflow
- Pencil
- Pidoco
- Cacoo – web based diagramming application
- JustProto
- Lumzy
- Just in Mind
- Proto.io – mobile prototyping tool
Credit & Attribution
It is vital that credit for a project be apportioned fairly. This, however, can be a challenge in big, multifaceted project team, not a single author. Some recent efforts to set guidelines for project teams:
- The Collaborators’ Bill of Rights
- The Fair Cite Initiative
- While not a guide to credit and attribution per se, “The Iterative Design for a Project Charter for Interdisciplinary Research” walks you through the process of coming up with guidelines for a project, including some very useful questions to ask collaborators.
- For an example of a charter that incorporates this kind of thinking about fair treatment for collaborators, see the Praxis Program’s charter for its Prism project.
Guides & Articles
- Make your Computer a Web Server or Development Machine in Under 10 Minutes
- A Gentle Introduction to Version Control
- Lessons from One Week | One Tool – Project Management
- What I learned from the Scholars’ Lab and the Center for History and New Media
- Project Management Boot Camp Notes from THATCamp CHNM
- How to Write a Good Report
- 10 ways to make sure your digital resource has impact
- Large Project Planning and Development (large PDF file)
- Project Management Templates (Proposal, Project Scope, Status Report, Final Report)
- Project Management from Start to Finish
- Ten rules for humanities scholars new to project management
- Lessons for Promoting your Project
- Git is Simpler than you Think
- Planning Digital Projects (slides from talk by Geoffrey Rockwell)