Suitable technology for very small user base [closed]

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

My friend wants a way to organize her projects and tasks better at work. She would like to be able to:

• Define Projects
• Define (Weekly) Tasks for each Project
  • A Task is associated with a particular week (day/time granularity not needed)
• Define Sub-Tasks for each Task
• View a week's worth of tasks and their subtasks at a time
• Zoom in to see a particular task in more detail
• Zoom out to see a whole month's tasks in less detail

And last, but not least, she would like to share this data with her supervisor, so he can see it and make comments / adjustments.

I'd like to know what options are available and the pros/cons of each... I've considered:

• Excel sheet
  • Pros: easy to share, availability (she and her boss both have Excel installed)
  • Cons: harder to maintain and create multiple views of the same data.
• Access
  • Pros: easy to share (perhaps via storage on shared drive), availability
  • Cons: UI options not very rich, in my opinion
• .NET with local db file
  • Pros: Rich UI options, quick development (i am most familiar with .NET)
  • Cons: Availability - they would both have to have my app installed, or it would have to live on a shared drive somewhere (which is probably an option I guess...)

Can anybody shed any light on this as far as available options, pros/cons I haven't thought of for these or any other technologies?

Thanks!

manpreet 2 years ago