Twproject (say: T W Project) is a

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project and groupware management tool created by Open Lab, an Italian software house founded in 2001. It won the 17th Jolt Productivity Award in 2007 in the

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category. In March 2019 it becomes property of Twproject company. It has widespread use in universities as a teaching tool in project management courses. It is used by

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and many other companies from corporations to small start-ups.List of Twproject' customers
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History

* April 2001 - The idea of Teamwork came to Open-Lab founders from a need to overcome the PM tools used at that time. It was built in Microsoft ASP and

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* November 2002 - Open-Lab decide to move from Flash to HTML and from ASP to Java-JSP. Teamwork 2 development is started. * June 2004 - Teamwork 2 released, using top open-source technologies like Hibernate, jBlooming, dynamic CSS, Ajax * 7 January 2005 - Teamwork goes open source, under LGPL license; remains such until June 2006 (18 months): it is a hit application on SourceForge, with 38.000 downloads, covered by greeting but starving * April 2005 - Open-Lab takes the decision to change commercial strategy to finance development of Teamwork version 3 * 6 June 2006 - Teamwork 3 is finally out (15 months development). New interface, many new features, agile support and much more * 27 March 2007 - Teamwork wins the 2007 JOLT Productivity Awards for project management category * July 2007 - Teamwork 4 development started: new interface, extended use of new HTML capabilities, JS-oriented interface, start using jQuery * February 2009 - Teamwork 4.0 is out * February 2010 - Teamwork 4.4: public project pages, Chinese interface. jQuery is getting more space in Teamwork * December 2010 - Teamwork 4.6: released Mobile module available for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry. Intensive usage of jQuery * June 2011 - Teamwork 4.7: released Issue Kanban / Organizer * January 2012 - Teamwork 5.0 development started. Lighter interface, extensive usage of dynamic pages, easier installer and first time approach. Learning curve highly reduced. A jQuery Gantt editor included and released free for the community * July 2012 - Teamwork 5 released and also the free online Gantt editor * November 2012 - Teamwork 5.1 with new trees and improved model for staffing * March 2013 - Teamwork 5.2 with stronger support for customizations and Japanese interface. * April 2014 - Teamwork has changed its name in Twproject because the domain teamwork.com has been purchased by

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. * April 2013 - Twproject 5.4 with a redesigned more powerful Gantt chart. * August 2015 - Twproject 5 finale release. * September 2015 - Twproject 6 with a completely redesigned user interface. * March 2019 - A new company Twproject srl has been spun off. * September 2021 - Twproject 7 has been released introducing WBS based management and workload management.

Features

* Project & task management (with

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import/export), and JSON format * Gantt editor. Uses jQuery Gantt components * Time tracking. Several entry points: dashboard, weekly view, issues, start/stop buttons * Resource planning with weekly/monthly view, work load overview, unavailability from agenda * Issue tracking & planning(with

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), e-mail integration, task dedicated inboxes * Dashboard configuration, with customizable portlets and layout * Message boards * Scrum module * Meeting and minute management, attached documents * Agenda (Integrates with

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, Microsoft Entourage, and

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) * Document management, remote file systems link with NTFS, FTP, SVN, S3 (Dropbox, Google drive) * Mobile application for iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, Windows phone

Integration

A complete JSON API is available for integrations. The applications runs in

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JDK 8+ on the

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object/relational mapping. The standard distribution uses Apache Tomcat 9, but can run on any J2EE application server. Twproject is tested on these DB servers:

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, SQL Server,

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, but as uses

can run on many others. There is simple graphical step-by-step installer for Windows, Mac, Linux, .zip/.tar.gz/.rpm packages.

References

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External links

Twproject website

Twproject blog

Gantt

Twproject support

Open Lab website
Project management software Web applications

History

Features

Integration

See also

References

External links