The version 1.7.0 of Plandora is available. This version contain a number of bugs that was fixed and an implementation of the Agile Board inspired at the Task Board of Scrum model.

Check the release notes here.

The Plandora developers team wants to listening to the users that are currently using the Plandora tool. We are interested in the motivations, the issues and what kind of improvement, the tool is bringing to the quality and productivity of companies.

Click here and fill in our survey!

The version 1.6.0 of Plandora is available. This version don't has changes of data base structure in comparison with version 1.5.0, then the upgrade from 1.5.0 is quite simple.

Check the release notes here.

The new version of Plandora is now available. A number of new features was implemented: integration with SVN to allow the file navigation; visual traceability of task, requirements, risks, etc through a 'mind map' chart; inclusion of charts and metrics into main form; new report exportation formats; etc.

Check the complete list of new features and fixed bugs at the release notes here

Due to a bug into sourceForge portal, the installation package it is not available into download into the portal yet. Then, we've put the new deliverable, here. Since the bug is fixed, the download will be able in both sources.

Updating (August 1th): SourceForge has just communicated that the download service is OK. The file can be reached here

At July 7th, the Plandora project was mentioned by Cynthia Harvey at www.itmanagement.earthweb.com. The article described, 101 open source alternatives for enterprise applications. Click here to read.

Plandora was selected with other nine applications into 'Project Management' category. About Plandora, Harvey says "(...) In addition to the usual assortment of Gantt charts and resource charts, Plandora also provides a Balanced Scorecard report for tracking key performance indicators (KPIs). (...)"

One week later, the portal linuxplanet.com re-published the same article. Click here to read.

The Wiki page of Plandora is now available. The "HowTo's" page that was previously hosted in this website was moved to there. This change was done to make easier the improvement of documentation and contents about the project. A wiki environment is a powerfull communication tool among project developers and visitors. The Plandora Team want to thank the SourceForge that sponsored this new feature.

Click here to visit Plandora Wiki Page.

Nowadays the agile models of project management are increasingly taking part of analysts reality. Scrum is the one of the most known method to apply the agile method in software projects. An important feature of Scrum is to give to customers the possibility to change the requirements along the project life cycle without the usual impacts that cause pain and discord among the team.

Click here to learn more about it.

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!