My idea about an ideal Project management system.

After using/studying few project management systems, activecollab, JIRA, Redmine to name few. I do clearly prefer Redmine, I still am wanting something more. There is a feeling like something is missing. I'm have figured out a list of features that I'd like to see in a project management system (although I cannot guarantee that there won't be another list if these were some how fulfilled). Let's see in detail what I mean.

Team:
Project management has always been a team effort and a team is composed of individuals. Almost all the project management system focus on the projects, tasks, due-dates etc. But there is least focus on team. I'm of opinion that a project management system must give equal focus to team along with other artifacts. In a team everyone may not have equal skill, there are days when people are absent. So, I think a PMS should make it easy for a project manager to manage by individual.

Social process
Project management is always a social process, and a project management system should be able to consider this fact. As a social process the PMS should meet somewhere near facebook. It is mainly about communication. But, by communication I’m not referring to just the communication between client/customer and the project manager. The communication here considers more dimensions. A team member may want to communicate with other team members; as a team member I may want to share some idea with others. I’d like more control over the privacy and public ness of a message being passed, not just a rudimentary control but rather a bit more elaborated and sophisticated control over the message privacy. Something similar to Facebook walls, inboxes, chats etc.

Version control
A project management system should have some sort of version control over the tasks, bugs etc, (mind you I'm not talking about the version control of codes). Almost every time I do some work on a project, I'll be pulling down the works that assigned to me and create a TO-DO for my personal purpose that I may or may not share with others. I do mark things as done and put some comment, for my personal reference, at end of the day I do select the important ones from my notepad (I generally use notepad, for my To-do) and update the project manager. I think it would be better if the project management software did allow me to create my To-do list and make as many changes as I'd like in the tasks assigned to me, without those changes getting reflected to others. At end of the day I'd select and commit the changes that I want others to see.

So, folks these are the three main things I'd like to have in a project management system, along with other general stuffs. So, in conclusion what I want from software project management is the features of Facebook + Redmine + GIT(git here is not for code revision control, but rather the tasks and activities, as I mentioned earlier), combined together.

Well I think I'm quite lazy(I'm not trying to build these things my self, at least not in a near future), and way too demanding. But then this is the human nature :)