Environmental protection company seeks project management software

Our company is active in the field of environmental and resource protection. We are looking for project management software for an innovative climate protection project with various project partners (companies and scientific institutions). The main focus is on visualizing work responsibilities; financial management and time tracking are not as important.

The software should meet the following requirements:

• Clear and intuitive representation of the work structure: work goals, work tasks, work steps, schedule, users, etc.
• Different user levels: different write and read permissions, only partial access can be set --> permissions should be individually adjustable
• Communication between users must be possible, e.g., via a forum
• Platform can be individually customized in terms of scope: Option to hide functions? (e.g. to make it more accessible for beginners)
• My personal level and the “group level” should be distinguishable, in the sense that I can filter out the content that concerns me so that I only see
• the option to upload data would be nice, but is not essential
• Desirable, but not essential: Mind mapping function or whiteboard for sketches

It should be noted that

• the project partners do not work in one office/building, but are scattered throughout Germany and Austria
• the project partners are working on the project on a “voluntary” basis, so no software training is possible; the program must therefore be fairly intuitive to use

Project management has been carried out using an Excel spreadsheet up to now. The project partners can access shared documents via a “network drive.” A web-based project management solution is conceivable.

Initially, approximately 10 software workstations are planned. However, the number of workstations must be flexibly expandable.