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Topic : Project management software using Google Drive I am currently managing a project with writers, Content Reviewers, and Editors. The documents are stored on Google Drive. At the moment the process - selfpublishingguru.com

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I am currently managing a project with writers, Content Reviewers, and Editors.

The documents are stored on Google Drive. At the moment the process is very convoluted and is quickly becoming a bottle neck. I will describe the process below.

Author puts article up in specified folder
-I email review team, asking them to review, wait for email back confirming it has been done
I move to Language checks, wait for email back confirming it has been done
I send it off to be published

This involves emails back and forth and is a drain.

I need a tool that can manage the process, i.e., I can add states for a task such as, in review, in edit, published. Also this tool needs to be able to be collaborative so everyone involved in the end-to-end process can login to one central place do their tasks. etc.

It should also integrate with Google Drive. As I come from a software engineering background, I was going to try and write some myself. But there is no point re-inventing the wheel.

Has anyone got any suggestions of tools out there?

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I've worked with ProofHQ for collaborative proofing and approvals, and it's worked well particularly for distributed teams.

For general project management I've used Trello, which has a nice paradigm of progressing tasks through a series of stages and assigning particular people to them.

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This is totally self promotion, but I'd like to think what I'm working on addresses your problem. The only thing missing is a choice list for task states, but everything else I think would be covered. And heck, we busily adding features so you may see a choice list for status real soon.

Basically it works with Google Sites, which gives you data encapsulation per project. You can link one or more documents to each task. You can assign tasks to one or more people. And, you can view one or more project at a time. Let me know what you think.

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The problem is that the solutions I know are mainly related to web - namely CMS - and I think it would be to overpowered to use then just to manage reviewing process. In any case, eZ Publish is an outstanding. Sharepoint works also but - imho - it's not so good and quite expensive.

There are some more obscure solutions - like using BitBucket and GIT - but I don't think it's worth to suggest them in the context of project management.

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