The FISL 9.0 has finished. The event has joined more than 7 thousand people from 21 countries. During 3 days has occurred: debates, lectures, changing of information and experiences among user groups, developers and companies. The speech of Plandora Project has occurred in April 19th (it was re-scheduled). During the presentation, the team leader of project, Alberto Paterlini Pereto has made a tour through the tool, showing the main features.

Click here to download the presentation (OpenOffice Impress format).

The Plandora Project will be in Porto Alegre - RS - Brazil for FISL 9.0 event. The FISL is an annually international forum about open source technologies and many icons of open source world will take part. The project leader Alberto Paterlini Pereto will present a speaking session during the event (April 17th) which will talk about the Plandora features.

Click here to visit the FISL9.0 website and click here to read the abstract about the Plandora Project participation.

The Plandora team are pleased to present a number of demos about the main features of tool. These presentations intend to be a way to support people that are looking for an option for project/ticket management, and are curious to learn more about the available features.

Click here to view the presentation topics.

How to Reuse the Plandora Gantt in my own Project?

The most important goal of an open source project is share with the technical public around the world, source-codes, frameworks or ideas. The Plandora tool was planned and designed to be used partially or fully. One of those "fragments" is the Gantt chart.

Click here to see more about this.

In the 1990's Dr. Robert Kaplan and David Norton, from Harvard Business School developed a new approach called "balanced scorecard" (BSC). This new approach provides tools to enable the organizations to clarify their vision about the current company situation and to transform the metrics in actions for continuously improvement.

Today, many companies are adopting the BSC to monitoring the strategic goals. The BSC suggest four perspectives: "Financial Perspective", "Customer Perspective", "Business Process Perspective" and "Learning and Growth Perspective".

The Plandora enables the project managers or leaders to create and view metrics related to the tool (projects, tasks, requests, resources, etc). Those KPI's (Key Performance Indicator) can supply information to help the stakeholder's strategy for a specific project or even provides information to feed the company BSC.

To learn how the Plandora BSC can help your company, click here.

To learn more about BSC visit the oficial site about it or the wikipedia references.

Nowadays, the companies demand systems that are able to supply features for specific purposes. In workflow tools, is important to create screens that collect as maximum as possible information from the customer (requirement, tasks, etc) in order to improve a data base with information about the project's history and the company's knowledge.

Plandora, since version 0.9.1 implements the approach of Meta Fields to address this issue. Meta Fields are dynamic GUI resources generated and configured to display into the forms any information with customized appearance.

For more information of how to create a meta field in your Plandora's project, see the link here.

We are very glad to present the new Plandora web site. This new site is part of the efforts to change the project look'n'feel. We introduced the new Plandora logo, a new color style and the content of web site in English idiom (this project was originally conceived in Brazilian Portuguese). Our purpose is to improve a communication channel with the development community and the system users.

Besides, at this month (July,2006) we complete two years since the first version of system was released, and all this period more than one thousands of downloads was performed. For this reason, we believe that there are an enormous public looking forward for good workflow tools, and Plandora wants to be one of those tools, with the advantage to be open-source and royalty-free..

The next steps are to open an area for FAQs about the system usages and a specific area to support the developers that eventually wants to help us.

We hope you enjoy the show!