Collaboration is important to a project, keep all members syncronized is more important to a fancy gantt chart.

A. Work-Breakdown-Structure: List the sturcture, owner and status of all subtasks visually.

B. Milestone: Show the milestone in a calendar.

C. Document: Centralized document library, such collaborative authoring and version control.

D. Discussion: Comments on a task/document or standalone topics.

E. Mail assistant: All updates will mail to you once subscribed. Acted like a mailing-list.

F. Change history: For review purperse.

G. Template: A project could start from a template. You could use your previous as a template.