Project Management - software considerations

My dissertation research and prior work centers heavily on project-based work. I did not intend to study project management originally. It simply emerged that work life is getting organized around projects, particularly high tech work and strategic work - my areas of consulting and study. As a result, I have become a project management researcher. One basic project management resource everyone should know is the Project Management Institute.

I have been exploring a variety of project management software tools for a while now.  The Wikipedia article on project management software is a good reference and points a several sources listing a wide variety of options out there. One of them I have installed and tested is the Open-source PHProject package. It really focuses on IT projects but could be customized for others.  I review the various available packages in this article.

Here's a somewhat interesting video on YouTube about project management... The book is not the best, and the video is ultimately for marketing purposes - but the lesson about people issues and stakeholders is critical and accurate.