Streber

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http://www.streber-pm.org/

With Streber Freelancers and small teams can easily setup projects and keep track of tasks, issues, bugs, efforts etc. Project-User-Rights can be adjusted e.g. to provide clients a limited view of the current project state.

It's free
Streber is a free open source project and will be updated by a comunity of interessted developers of which most use the tool for their own work.

new standards
We focus on decent web technology (Firefox, MS Internet Explorer 6, Konqueror, Safari, Opera), mature object oriented programming with php5 and W3C standards like CSS2 and DOM-html. With this we tremedously reduce code-size and improve performance, flexibility and stability.

Use interface-features you might not expect from a web-interface: Right mouse-button brings up context-menus. Navigation can be done with keyboard.

It's easy
You don't need any programming-background to set-up and use streber. It's grafical interface is eay and self explanatory. You could however - adjust it to you own needs.

it makes visible what you want to show
The key aspect of streber´s user-rights system is based on roles in projects. For example...
Clients might only see published items and can only "suggest" or "request" new items which are seen and edited by project-managers.
Normal team-members only see relevant and private items.
Roles are assigned for each project.
User-rights can be fine-tuned for each team-member.
At "home" each user sees a list of recent relevant changes: new tasks, members, comments.

organize
streber provides many ways to organize your information
tasks can have project-specific labels an categories
tasks can be grouped hierarchically
tasks can have required tasks
tasks can be extended by issue-reports and linked to project-versions
tasks can be grouped to mile-stones and groups
Booking time-efforts is possible with a maximum of three clicks.