ProjectZilla was a project I had to combat the need I had for some project management software. Most that i have tried are either overly complex, or just way too expensive. As a developer having some tool to track progress and bugs.
So I decided to come up with something that would meet my needs, or the bare minimum of them. It's functioning as a basic level but I do plan on doing a lot more to it.
Building something like this is no small feat. There is lots to take into account and it can become daunting if you let it swamp you. I built it on a micro php framework I built and still like to advance from time to time. This handles the basic user login, account settings kinda thing. The next step is to plan the basic functionality out
I broke the project into the following component parts.
Each component would have bare functions that needed to be met. For projects I concentrated on solo access first. So setting up a project, title name, and then what functions should it have?
It also gives some amazing unthought of hurdles to overcome and work out. For example, if I work in a team and I remove someone from a task and replace them with someone else what is meant to happen is this:
How does it know who was already on the system, how does it know who was added and Who was removed?
All this took some working out and just running the functions through on paper (well...ipad) and simply breaking things down step by step. Turns our it wasn't that hard!! Like with most things I was over thinking it and adding in steps where none needed. All good fun and always good to learn things!
My conclusion on this is it's a tool that will grow and once I learn some more skills I plan on expanding it and making it better. I'm happy with the UI as it's simple, clean and just to the point.
So feel free to use it if you like, I have plans for a discord for feedback and live interactions. I have also used a CMS for providing some form of help documents.
