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recently I start to take a bigger responsability because I was developing a project and now is in production, so im coordinating the manteinance and other developments (with 6 more developers), what I need is to assing/manage task to developers and graphics-designers and see when they are busy or idle to take better decitions.

im looking alternatives like openproject with gantt diagrams and resources admin, but webapp.

can you give me advices for my new functions? thanks.

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Assuming you're managing a group of professionals, you don't really need more than a bug/issue tracking system (since you're using TRAC, this would suffice).

What you want to do is assign a few tasks to each developer for them to do, and let them do it. You don't have to know if someone is idle, because they're not machines and if they have no work to do they will ask you.

To find out what the developer did, you read their time sheet(for how long) and issue tracking(for what they did). But again, if someone does not log anything for 1 or 2 days, don't panic, they're probably dealing with a complicated problem and developers normally do not log anything until a problem is solved. (some do not like writing at all, those you do need to push them a little)

Lastly, congratulations on the promotion!

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You could use a bugtracker like bugzilla for it.

Create bugs (=tasks) and assign them to users. People can estimate and comment on their tasks. You can categorize tasks and build dependencies among them. Tasks walk through a series of status and can be prioritized and voted on.

Using the reporting and search functionality you can check how much work each user has and how long it will take until all tasks are (expected to be) done.

Bugtrackers usually don't show nice flow charts but are used by most companies to do this job.

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Im gonna put an answer (I will never mark as answer ;) ) but the idea is to discuss and give software names, for example, take a look at: DotProject "the Open Source Project Management tool"

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nice recopilation: http://apps.open-libraries.com/best-open-source-project-management-tools/