Software of the Month 11 Project Management Software
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Software of the Month 11 PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE 1. HARVEST 2. BITRIX24 3. ASANA Harvest is a great software for Bitrix24 is a project management Asana is an intuitive task management your resource -based project system that complete suite of social system that works best for teams management and reporting. In collaboration, communication and seeking real-time interaction. Asana this, you have a different invoicing management tools for your team. allows its users to visualize their system, through which you can You can use the self-hosted version goals, track their time, assign priority easily bill up to your clients with a of Bitrix24 to run on your server. You to their tasks, and get updates on the click of a single button. It makes get full control over data, source code project right in the program. It also the billing systems easy. access, and additional tools, such as has a calendar function to graph the helpdesk and e-learning, as well as team’s tasks right onto the dashboard. integration and customization options. It is added an Android app, the ability to convert a task to a project, conversations, and dashboards. 4.TRELLO Trello uses a method called Kanban, a project management system 5. GANTT PROJECT which allows users to move cards— The management platform allows users 6. ORANGE SCRUM to quickly create a structured schedule representative of tasks—to create Orange Scrum is a modern project man- for any project. It offers task assignment a visual representation of where a agement tool for freelancers, agencies, and and milestone implementation. project is in development. It supports small and medium businesses. Features The open-source software also iPhone, Android and Windows 8 mobile include a scrum task board, resource enables project managers to identify platforms, however, its website has planning, progress tracking, and more. problem areas in the workflow so been designed to be accessible on most It is designed for use by IT companies, that companies can set goals for mobile web browsers. It added support education and health services, construc- improvement. Gantt Project is another for an unlimited number of tags, in tion and manufacturing, and others. The open-source free project scheduling the form of colored labels that can be OrangeScrum developer community has an and management tool. Reviewers have renamed and new ones created. Cards active forum and roadmap. It provides the compared this heavy-hitting application accept comments, attachments, notes, groundwork for agile software development to Microsoft Project—both in terms of due dates, and checklists. and resource management. features offered and complexity. 7. MYCOLLAB MyCollab-Project is the tool we’re look- 8. AGILEFANT 9. LIBREPLAN ing at in this case and has many fea- Agilefant offers a free and open source LibrePlan is a web-based application, tures, like a Gantt chart and milestones, product that can be downloaded and making project management available to time tracking, issue management, deployed into your own private cloud. to not just the project manager, but the risk and problem management. MyCol- Called a solo plan, you can also sign up entire project team, and if necessary lab-Project comes in three editions, of for a free cloud offering. Agilefant has across organizations. This is another which the Community Edition is the free focused on agile approaches involving full-featured tool supporting resource option. The source code is on GitHub Kanban and Scrum, but also can be allocation, Gantt charts, financials, and .GitHub is used in place of a traditional bent to support traditional approaches more. These features coupled with a forum, where they accept contributions to project management such as the web-based application make LibrePlan and provide support. waterfall method. a great collaboration platform. 62 PCQUEST JULY 2016 pcquest.com twitter.com/pcquest facebook.com/pcquest linkd.in/pcquest [email protected] 10. TAIGA 11. ODOO Taiga is an open source project management platform Odoo, formerly known as OpenERP, is a full suite of business in beta for startups, agile developers, and designers. applications, of which Odoo project management is just one. Taiga is a tool that aims to solve the basic problem It is multiplatform and supports Windows, Fedora, CentOS, of software usability. Designed with this sole aim, RHEL, and others.Odoo has a professional community with the developers claim it’s beautiful to look at all day everything a user or developer needs, including forums, long. With a focus on agile development, Taiga has all documentation, IRC, tracker, GitHub, and more. The tool can of the required features such as a backlog, Kanban, easily be adapted to meet your own project management tasks, sprints, and issues. Taiga is open source under methods. It’s also highly collaborative, allowing for multiple the GNU Affero GPLv3 and available on GitHub. members to work on proposals or minutes at the same time and sending tasks as emails automatically. 5 WEB DEVELOPER TOOLS 1. DROPLR 2. XAMPP 3. JS BIN As a developer, working with designers A live testing environment should be JS Bin was one of the first public paste or co-workers often means sharing an essential element in every web bins that rendered output live in your documents, images, and text. Droplr developer’s toolbox, and XAMPP is a browser, allowing users to collaborate makes that incredibly easy, packaged highly recommended open source, on and debug Javascript, HTML and in a blazingly fast, slick, intuitive configurable web server. It contains CSS code snippets. It supports remote interface. Without even signing up, Apache, MySQL, PHP, OpenSSL, rendering, enabling you to check on we can upload files and share them FileZilla FTP server and more, bundled multiple platforms while the output with a generated URL for a period of together for a smooth configuration. automatically refreshes as you edit seven days, while signing up for a free Also of note is MAMP (for Mac OS X), the code. Once you start typing, JS Bin account allows uploads of up to 25MB which works the same way as XAMPP, saves your work .If you want to stop files and up to 1GB of storage. with some slight differences. saving, just create a milestone and live saving will apply to the new revision. 4. GITHUB - GIST If you use Git, you will want to make use of GitHub and 5. GIT Gists. GitHub is a place to securely store your code, Git is an open source revision control and source code and Gist is a simple way to share snippets and pastes management system that tracks the history of your project in a with others. With native clients for Mac, Windows, and data structure called a repository. Git is a decentralized system mobile devices, GitHub offers the ability to work on that allows for multiple backup repositories. Branching and your projects from anywhere. It’s a powerful way to merging make it simple to work on new features in a separate collaborate, review and manage your code on both public branch. They only merge when stabilized, making it easy to and private development projects. Hosting your code experiment quickly and safely. This is particularly useful if you’re using an external service such as GitHub means it’s safe working in collaboration with others, as you can share the history and secure, should your web host get hacked or your of the project, merge between their work and yours, then compare computer crashes, for example. and revert to previous versions of individual project files. pcquest.com twitter.com/pcquest facebook.com/pcquest linkd.in/pcquest [email protected] JULY 2016 PCQUEST 63 Software of the Month 5 ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE TOOLS 1. ITERAPLAN 2. MODELIO Iteraplan is an open-source tool for Enterprise Architecture It is an open source modeling environment. Modelio delivers Management (EAM). It is based on the best-practice EAM a broad-focused range of standards-based functionalities methodology by iterate for modeling business and technical for software developers, analysts, designers, business landscaping in enterprises. architects and system architects. 3. ARCHI A free and open source modeling tool to create ArchiMate models and sketches. The Archi modelling tool is targeted toward all levels of Enterprise Architects and Modellers. It provides a low cost to entry solution to users who may be making their first steps in the ArchiMate modeling language, or who are looking for a free, cross-platform ArchiMate modelling tool. 4. SKETCHBOARD 5. BLENDER It is 3D CAD software that can convert sketch into a simple It lets users create and deliver superb photo-realistic animation polygon. SketchBoard is a sketch-oriented tool for the – in convenient, compact files. It’s ideal for walkthroughs.Enter designer. Its recognition system can help designer to work Blender: Make models, design, and present interactively in your with their simple sketch. own product environment, and without straining budgets. 4 USEFUL TESTING TOOLS FOR AGILE TESTERS 1. SELENIUM WEB DRIVER 2. JMETER Selenium Web Driver is the most widely used test tool Jmeter is an open source performance testing tool written for browser test automation. By running automated tests entirely in Java. It can be used to load test websites (HTTP, on the UI, we can simulate what the user sees when HTTPS) as well as Web Services(SOAP and REST) and they interact with the web application. One of the main Databases. The HTTP(S) Test Script Recorder can be used advantages of using Selenium WebDriver over other UI to record and replay requests. Jmeter can be extended by automation tools is that you can write your automated tests plugins to support further functionalities and there is also a in a variety of supported programming languages, such as Jenkins plugin which means you can run performance tests Java, C#, Ruby, Python, and PHP.