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  • How to manage resource distribution

    How to manage resource distribution

    Resource allocation is one of the most challenging and delicate tasks in project management. We are talking about time, people, budget, tools, and skills—key elements that make or break a project. But how can all this be managed effectively, preventing waste and ensuring a balance between priorities, teams, and objectives? In this article, we will…

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  • Teamwork release 4.1.9021

    This is our weekly patch, which includes some new features and bug fixes. Download it here; the installer will upgrade your web application; the database schema is unchanged. Thank you to all users and plugin developers for the great feedback. Features – the process creation wizard is more friendly, and there is better date handling…

  • Project management software evaluation, do it right!

    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…

  • Oh no, not another Scrum tool!

    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…

  • Teamwork release 4.1.8848

    This is our weekly patch, just one feature and some little bug fixes. Download it here; the installer will upgrade your web application; the database schema is unchanged. Features – Operator load is filterable by active task status. Bugs – Fixed upgrade procedure to 4.1 – Fixed display of meeting in recent views – Fixed…

  • Installing Teamwork via console

    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…

  • Teamwork 4.1.8786

    A small patch release fixing enabling LDAP authentication; also some improvements in printing tasks, closing time counters and removed French as translation is not complete yet. Download it here.

  • Teamwork 4.1 (8735): worklog validation and many other improvements

    Release 4.1 is now available and is a free upgrade for all users of version 4.0. Download it here; the installer will upgrade your web application and database schema. This release main improvements: Work log management Work log can now be classified, verified, approved, billed, and moved: see the new section 8.5 of the user…

  • Effortless work logging

    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…

  • Teamwork Webcast #2 – IT integration

    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;…

  • Teamwork 4.0.8330: print Gantts and a few little things

    Print preview of a Gantt. This release contains some feature improvements and bug fixes. Also the user guide has been updated. Download the release here. Features – task Gantts are now “web printable” – distributing a sample iframe parametrical portlet (extended the user guide with instructions) which is a rough way of getting anything visibleon…

  • Managing with lists vs. managing with trees

    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…

  • Smarter search and recent object functionality

    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…