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Christian Busch Berlin, Germany
What is a good (the best) software to track developers hours with different rates and cost for multiple clients and automaticly print custom invoices ?

I have something in mind with a small punchclock, where the developers enters the client, the task and then the hours are tracked. further i would like to have each developer estimate the time to finish the project and and later on compare this to the actual time he needed, in order to train him on his estimates.

I looked at a couple of products but nothing was really sexy. Does anyone have any suggestions ?
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Ian Simpson Director of Change Management| COINS Twickenham, United Kingdom
Not to sure what is "best" but there are a growing number of PSA (Professional Service Admnistration) systems out there.
I liked Invisic (now Portera - www.portera.com )which addresses your needs (though I don't know what their minimum user license number is) and has an excellent link to MS-Project. It works through the WEB so is good for dispersed teams.
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John Hambacher Redmond, Wa, United States
Why is web-based or web-deployed assumed to be inherently better than client/server?

I'm responsible for a traveling team of consultants, many of whom work from client sites, hotel rooms, and airports without dedicated internet connectivity. We're using a home-grown Notes solution (to use the word Solution loosely) and its big benefit is the synchronization built in.

Now that we're evaluating PSA solutions I'm amazed at the blank stares when you ask the vendors how to accomodate my team's situation. Has anyone experienced the same thing?
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Frank Patrick Boonton, Nj, United States
This topic begs a few questions, starting with "Why do you need it?"

What has the cost of a project got to do with it's price?

Isn't there some intrinsic value of the project to the client that is totally unrelated to the cost of delivering it?

And as far as training on estimates, that implies an interest in developing "accurate estimates" for the future. That phrase should be seen as an oxymoron and banished from the PM phrasebook. Learning comes from identifying sources of deviation from expectations, but no two circumstances are ever the same. Your projects can't and shouldn't depend on "better estimates" but better methods of dealing with the uncertainty that is inherent and unavoidable in all project work.

Gee -- now that I've lobbed that grenade into the discussion, I almost wish I wasn't on my way out to a three week vacation with limited access to the net and the responses it engenders.

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RAJESH K L Project Manager, PMP| Bharat Electronics, Bengaluru, India Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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