LibrePlan
Description
LibrePlan is a free software web application for project management,
monitoring and control.
LibrePlan is a collaborative tool to plan, monitor and control projects and
has a rich web interface which provides a desktop alike user experience. All the
team members can take part in the planning and this makes possible to have a
real-time planning.
It was designed thinking on a scenario where multiple projects and resources
interact to carry out the work inside a company. Besides, it makes possible
the communication with other company tools providing a wide set of web
services to import and export data.
Features
* Resource management:
* Two type of resources: machines and workers.
* Flexible calendars easily reusable.
* Resource configuration based on skills and roles.
* Planning:
* Simple way to configure and estimate the work to plan. It is carried out
through Work Breakdown Structures (WBS) [1]_.
* Different detail levels during the planning.
* Two ways to allocate resources:
* Specific allocation: Concrete individuals.
* Assisted generic allocation: Based on skills and roles fulfilled by the
resources.
* Templates to reuse work. Projects can be created based on templates for
repeatable tasks being able to save time.
* Automatic resource reallocation in order to minimize overload (overtime).
* Advanced allocation. Manual configuration of daily work hours on a task
when automatic allocation does not suit your needs.
* Monte Carlo method. Statistical simulation to calculate the possibility to
complete a project in a range of dates.
* Projects control and monitoring:
* Company global analysis.
* Earned Value Management [2]_. Project management method to objectively
measure progress and performance of a project.
* Planning quality management. It is possible to control quality of the tasks
to be performed through forms.
* Projects cost analysis.
* Reported hours: worked hours are assigned to each task to track costs during
the planning
* Progress measurement through different unit types.
* Outsourcing
LibrePlan provides support for companies that do outsourcing:
* Project tasks can be outsourced and sent to the LibrePlan installation of
the supplier.
* You can receive progress notifications of the subcontractors to know how
outsourced tasks are evolving .
* Other features:
* Materials. You can manage the materials that planned tasks need to be
carried out.
* Complete users system with permissions, LDAP authentication, etc.
Requirements
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* *JRE 8* - Java Runtime Environment
Project depends on Java 8 JRE is needed in order to run it
* *PostgreSQL* - Object-relational SQL database
A database server is needed. You could use *PostgreSQL* or *MySQL* as you
prefer.
* *Tomcat 8* - Servlet and JSP engine
Server to deploy the application. You could use *Jetty* instead.
* *JDBC Driver* - Java database (JDBC) driver for PostgreSQL
To connect application with *PostgreSQL* database in *Tomcat*
* *CutyCapt* - Utility to capture WebKit's rendering of a web page
Required for printing
* *Xvfb* - Virtual Framebuffer 'fake' X server
Used by CutyCapt for printing
See ``INSTALL`` file for installation instructions.
See ``HACKING`` file for compilation requirements and instructions.
Availability
------------
The cutting-edge version of this project is always available from the Git
repository at https://github.com/LibrePlan/libreplan
Released versions are available at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/libreplan/files/
Webpage
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You can find more information about *LibrePlan* at
https://www.libreplan.dev/home/
For information related with *LibrePlan* development you can visit the wiki at
https://wiki.libreplan.dev
Reporting bugs
--------------
Please use the bug tracker to report bugs at http://bugs.libreplan.dev/
License
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*LibrePlan* is released under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public
License version 3 [3]_.
Please read the ``COPYING`` file for details.
Authors
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This project was initially sponsored by *Fundación para o Fomento da Calidade
Industrial e o Desenvolvemento Tecnolóxico de Galicia* [4]_.
Please see ``AUTHORS`` file for more information about the authors.
.. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_Breakdown_Structure
.. [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_Value_Management
.. [3] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html
.. [4] http://gain.xunta.gal/
