Endeavour Software Project Management is an

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solution to manage large-scale enterprise software projects in an iterative and incremental development process.

History

Endeavour Software Project Management was founded in September 2008 with the intention to develop a solution for replacing expensive and complex project management systems that is easy to use, intuitive, and realistic by eliminating features considered unnecessary. In September 2009 the project was registered in

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, and in April 2010 the project was included in SourceForge's blog with an average of 210 weekly downloads.

Features

The major features include support for the following software artifacts:http://sourceforge.net/projects/endeavour-mgmt/ Endeavour en SourceForge * Projects * Use cases * Iterations * Project plans * Change requests * Defect tracking * Test cases * Test plans * Task * Actors * Document management * Project glossary * Project Wiki * Developer management * Reports (assignments, defects, cumulative flow) * SVN browser integration with Svenson *

Continuous Integration Continuous integration (CI) is the practice of integrating source code changes frequently and ensuring that the integrated codebase is in a workable state. Typically, developers Merge (version control), merge changes to an Branching (revisio ...

with Hudson * Email notifications * Fully internationalizable

System requirements

Endeavour Software Project Management can be deployed in any Java EE-compliant application server and any relational database running under a variety of different operating systems. Its cross-browser capability allows it to run in most popular web browsers.

Usage

* Software project management *

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* Use-case-driven * Issue tracking * Test-case management software * Integrated wiki

Notes

References

Lee Schlesinger. Social media specialist at SourceForge.net blog post about Endeavour Software Project Management

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Coding-languages-Compilers/Endeavour-Software-Project-Management.shtml

http://freshmeat.net/projects/endeavour-software-project-management

https://web.archive.org/web/20100504041659/http://www.federalarchitect.com/2009/07/21/new-open-source-project-management-tool-for-large-scale-enterprise-systems/

External links

* {{SourceForge, endeavour-mgmt
http://sourceforge.net/projects/endeavour-mgmt/reviews
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