In “Making things happen”, the author (Scott Berkun) states that he assumes that the reader is not stupid, is curious and pragmatic, does not like jargon or big theories, and does not take herself, software, or management too seriously. Well, we do the same in Teamwork. Still, you may have no or little experience in … Continue reading “How do I begin project management?”

As always after a major upgrade, thanks to your detailed feedback we can already do a patch release with a few bug fixes. This is a free upgrade for all users of version 4. Get the installer / upgrader here: http://www.twproject.com/download.page Bug fixes: – IMPORTANT BUG FIX FOR ORACLE INSTALLATIONS: Release 4.5.17800 had a schema … Continue reading “Teamwork 4.5 patch release (4.5.17900)”

We are really happy to announce this major release update. As you may guess from the length of this announcement, this update will improve your Teamwork in almost every section, providing more modeling tools and functions. The web browsers’ enhanced capacities (in particular those of Firefox, Safari and Chrome) are used in depth to give … Continue reading “Teamwork 4.5 released: a major free upgrade”

In Open Lab we’ve been developing Teamwork and consulting on project and work management software since 2003. Every time we got in a company with our software, we had planned to show how the software worked, how to optimize its configuration, how to integrate it with existing software. But we actually did so in the … Continue reading “Stories of work management”

This release (4.4.16000) includes fixes and refinements on memory usage that make Teamwork lighter and faster – thanks to the great  Lambda Probe tool for help (we are not associated with them). Both absolute memory usage and memory usage by logged user has been significantly reduced. A few features included: custom pages can be disabled, … Continue reading “Lighter, faster Teamwork (release 4.4.16000)”

Healthy companies, groups which are self-critical tend to periodically reorganize themselves. It is an opportunity to improve both productivity and quality of work. In these moments, software surveys are done to select new software for project and more in general work management. It is in these phases that sometimes Teamwork is chosen. In the choice … Continue reading “A critical moment: choosing or changing a project management tool”

This new Teamwork release includes the Chinese translation of the entire interface, we want to thanks Mr. Chenfan for his great work ( we hope that the blog’s title is correct 🙂 ) . This release includes also an improvement in the public task page. We added a new check box that enables showing also … Continue reading “Teamwork in Chinese – 中文 (release 4.4.15200)”

A blog post on the books in Open Lab: http://pietro.open-lab.com/2010/03/01/some-books-helpful-for-product-development-and-marketing/

Not all companies have Java expert IT admins. And even if they have, most companies don’t have time to spend in installing evaluation software. Well, a simple solution is to use online demos. But in the case of Teamwork, this can mean limiting the evaluation, as many IT-integration tasks cannot be carried through using the … Continue reading “Download Teamwork ready and running in a VMware”

This is a minor release which includes some bug fixes. The most important ones are: – fixed bug in the issues import from csv – fixed bug in the new public page – no event created on issues added and no worklog   details shown – fixed bug on import projects form Basecamp You can download … Continue reading “Teamwork release 4.4.15100”

Teamwork 4.4.0 is released: download it here. We often get requests from customers and evaluators to give access to some Teamwork data to someone who does not log in Teamwork; data like status, progress and open issues on a project . Before this release, to do this you had two options: 1. set the customer … Continue reading “Teamwork 4.4.0 available: public pages for tasks”

There were once two brothers and a sister, and they were managers at three companies. The first brother was called Micro Manager, and he picked the most complex and integrated management tools, which were entrenched in the technical staff IDEs and into all their network activity, so that not a single line of code could … Continue reading “Twproject philosophy: a short story”