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This is a post for Linux-console lovers. We have done a big effort to obtain a reliable and friendly graphical installer; but still we received several requests for detailed instructions for hand installations in a non graphical environment, as this is often where Teamwork gets installed when out of the evaluation phase. So we provide … Continue reading "Installing Teamwork via console"

The worklog day on my dashboard nicely filled. Yesterday I was about to go home and before leaving on my Teamwork dashboard I noticed that my worklog was already all there without me having to insert it: I just opened and closed issues all day (one click for any of these) and.. the log was … Continue reading "Effortless work logging"

In this webcast Silvia Chelazzi and Pietro Polsinelli (I’m the latter, posting this) talk about Teamwork and IT integration. We focus the talk on built-in integration with other technologies.We talk about Subversion, Twitter, LDAP, ICal / Google calendars / Outlook, POP3/s SMTP/s IMAP, Microsoft Project / Basecamp import / export, Google docs, PDF /Excel exports; … Continue reading "Teamwork Webcast #2 – IT integration"

The field of “software aided project management”, which should by now more aptly named “web based work management” today can be divided by two basically different approaches to management: list based, and tree based. There are also other approaches, like “let’s just use a blog/a wiki”, or “e-mail is the way to go”, but I … Continue reading "Managing with lists vs. managing with trees"

Here we examine a technique to improve usability in complex applications by introducing smarter search and “recent objects” functionalities. As usability becomes more and more a crucial feature of applications, helping users with full-text search and recent object lists may still prove insufficient. You may need to go beyond these features, by having a way … Continue reading "Smarter search and recent object functionality"

We’ll give a free single user Teamwork 4 license to the first who finds the Easter Egg in Teamwork. A screenshot and/or a way to make it appear is fine to get the prize. 🙂

Now you can use a new Gmail (©Google Inc.) account as Teamwork’s, and send and receive e-mail to and from that account; see the user guide for instructions. Technically, introduced support for pop3s and smtps and, in theory, for imap (experimental). In this release we also have: – prettier search and send message – area … Continue reading "Teamwork 4.0.8152 with Gmail service support"

This release contains: – a bug fix for data upgrade from 3 to 4 – a fix in getting Twitter logs in dashboards – a fix in task PDF snapshot generation

This is a functionally minor update. with some nice bug fixes. We’ve also updated the user guide. Features – Friendlier file storage editor – On shutdown HsqlDB files get optimized – Smarter full text search user “t:” shortcuts etc. – Check overwork runs only if estimation is >0. Bug fixes – Bug on full text … Continue reading "Teamwork 4.0.8063 released"

Really nice that Teamwork 4 will include a complete German translation of the interface (for an extended discussion of how Teamwork deals with language issues, see this previous post). By the way, Teamwork 4 will be out this Friday (Janaury 30th, 2009). P.S.: Also Spanish is almost done:

One of the open discussions I’ve found wondering on the web is about people who try to manage their work with social networks. Since I’m a developer of a work management software and at the same time I’m social network addicted, I find this topic quite interesting. My first consideration is that social networks can … Continue reading "Attempts to manage work with social networks: Twitter limits"

In this post we refer to Scrum and Sprint, which are terms taken from the Scrum management methodology: see here for an introduction. Following Skype, Twitter and e-mail discussions with Rick Cogley, looking for example at Scrum-ban, we thought about how to improve the current Scrum module, creating a more “visual” interface for creating Sprints.  … Continue reading "Scrum tools: visually creating Sprints – a mockup"

The guys developing Teamwork are indeed using Teamwork for managing work. How we do that? Well, even in our small group, people have different functions and habits. We have two areas, production and accounting; inside prodution, there are people with different roles, and consequently see and use different data, to which the interface adapts seamlessly. … Continue reading "How Teamwork is made with Teamwork"

Teamwork’s translation in German is almost ready, thanks to Koelnticket, in particular Andreas Nebinger (thank you Andreas!). Let’s see a bit in detail how we dealt in general with internationalization issues in Teamwork; actually this set of problems will have to be met by any sufficiently powerful web application. There are many senses in which … Continue reading "Teamwork and multilinguism"