Managing a small project team?

What's the best tool?

[abu_ikrima]

What is the relative advantages of email, newsgroup and Wikis for collaboration among the members of a small project team?

[Receptional]

We recently put phprojekt into our systems. I think they call it "Groupware" (so many acronyms - what's a WIKI?)The voting of nine people involved is:

4) Like it
4) Will live with it
0) Loathe it
1) Doesn't even know how to vote yet.

[Hawkgirl]

If the team is small and cohesive, management software can be more trouble than it's worth.

If the team is spread out, or if they have communication lapses, then I'd recommend something to keep them all on the same page.

I've worked with a few different management systems and the only complaint I have about them is that they all require some maintenance and supervision.

[SlyGuy]

..what's a WIKI?

The simplest online database that could possibly work.
- Ward Cunningham [c2.com]

[rcjordan]

I recommend this one, it's great, takes 15 minutes to set up, and it's opensource. We've just begun using it as a business extranet in several in installs and it's also a going full blast as a family holiday and gift planning site. Learning curve is maybe 5 minutes for the raw basics, 20 for "pro" posting efficiency.

[usemod.com...]

<added>
Check out this add-on. You can easily control page access (I've mod-ed this mod to now check both username and password at the page level.)
[usemod.com...]

So, usemod ver 1.0 has admin/editor/public user levels and can have private areas as well. Wikis, by their nature, were meant for public editing, they're getting much more sophisiticated about access control recently.