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

• 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

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

LibrePlan is released under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 [3].

Please read the COPYING file for details.

Authors

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.