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Forthcoming Teamwork 4.3 will include among many new features, a richer Twitter integration, extending the existing worklog import/export functionality. In the picture on the left you see how you can use the tag field to send any issue to Twitter, similarly to delicious. So not only worklog can be sent back and forth between Twitter … Continue reading "More Teamwork – Twitter integrations"

We have just activated the possibility of delivering webinars to customers to remotely supply instruction from our instructors. This is at a fraction of the cost of a bootcamp, and may be all you need. Details can be found here: https://twproject.com/services/

Open Lab, the software house producing Teamwork, has a new blog here: http://blog.open-lab.com, on the first post we explain the significative positive evolution that we are going through.

The meaning of “adding a Wiki” The most voted request on our feedback service is “Integrate a wiki in the dashboards”: I think that what actually users mean is “integrate Wiki functionalities in Teamwork”, but this is one of the requests that can be interpreted in several different ways: it probably implies a feature set, … Continue reading "“Adding a wiki” to Teamwork"

Some project management applications provide minimal functionality: just a Gantt drawer. Some, more groupware oriented, provide a vast spectrum, including e-mail and chatting. While developing Teamwork, we made several choices about what to include and what not. The choice for Teamwork has been guided by this simple princliple: include only what will not sharply conflict … Continue reading "What you get with Teamwork and what you don’t"

In theory, being Teamwork integrated with the iCal format, it has always been possible to sync it with the iPhone, just like with Outlook and Google calendars. But as often happens, things turn out to be more complex, in particular if one wants to get a not only working, but also a comfortable solution. So … Continue reading "Integrating Teamwork calendar with the iPhone"

There is a increasing trend in getting more and more contributions from third parties to Teamwork – which is great news for us! Just received a Polish translations, will soon release a Teamwork plug-in for Thunderbird, and there are at least two software houses that will use Teamwork as a module in a more extended … Continue reading "Third party integrations speeding up"

I’ve recently received yet another request of a cost-benefit analysis given by the adoption of Teamwork, in general, of project and groupware management software. Not always in those exact terms, but we do periodically receive such requests. One may rephrase the question as “what is the exact economical gain given by adopting Teamwork”? Very superficially, … Continue reading "Simplistic cost/benefit evaluations of organizational tools adoption"

Introduction The work documented in this post was ignited by receiving the first video tests from usertesting.com and other sources (by the way, Usertesting supplied valuable feedback for a very cheap price), and about at the same time watching a video where Amy Jo Kim from Shufflebrain does a great and inspiring presentation showing how … Continue reading "Notes on usability, game mechanics, and Teamwork’s evolution"

We are currently intensely working on release 4.2, which will be a free upgrade as usual. Some of the new features that will be included are translation in French in Russian (!, thank you Kostantine), maybe also Chinese, a new start page, a new feedback messaging system, an empowered meeting management. In the meantime we … Continue reading "Teamwork weekly news: in Russian, in French and friendlier"

In this webcast Silvia Chelazzi and Pietro Polsinelli take a look at the requests in the feedback service, which was launched together with Teamwork version 4. Completed, declined and open requests are examined. Also the connection between feature requests and Teamwork development is discussed, with a reference to this blog post. We’d be happy to … Continue reading "Teamwork webcast #3"

This is a technical post about tand its databases. Many Twproject customers use MySQL as database for their data; Twproject as web application supports UTF-8, which means that you can insert data in practically any language; but of course to save such data you need support along the “entire trip”, so your database must support … Continue reading "Twproject, MySQL and UTF-8"

Well, first of all, does Teamwork have a future at all? Well, version 4 has now been out for almost 3 months, and it is been an outstanding commercial success, with a growth of about 400% with respect to the same 2008 period; in countries like Germany and Turkey our growth is really impressive, and … Continue reading "The future of Teamwork"

Evaluating Project Management software is a delicate matter, as it potentially involves changing deeply rooted companies’ habits; in general, this holds for all work management software. Being the subjects of such scrutiny, we experience that most companies fortunately take the right way right from the start, which is, trying the software, inserting in it some … Continue reading "Project management software evaluation, do it right!"

Image from Flickr – attributed following link. When we came back to Teamwork version 4 after reviewing some literature on agile methods, and in particular re-considering the Scrum perspective, it became progressively clearer that mapping Scrum ideas to this or that functionality of a software is inevitably a simplification and maybe even a betrayal of … Continue reading "Oh no, not another Scrum tool!"