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 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 Software project management is an art and science of planning and leading software projects. It is a sub-discipline of project management in which software projects are planned, implemented, monitored and controlled. History In the 1970s and 1 ...

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* Use-case-driven *

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* 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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