Endeavour Software Project Management
| Company type | Open-source software |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software project management |
| Founded | September 2008 |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Software project management platform |
Endeavour Software Project Management is a free and open-source platform created to facilitate the administration of extensive enterprise-level software initiatives through iterative and incremental methodologies.
History
Established in September 2008, Endeavour was developed to offer a straightforward, user-friendly alternative to expensive and overly complicated project management tools by eliminating superfluous functionalities.
The initiative was launched on SourceForge in September 2009 and gained recognition on SourceForge's blog by April 2010, achieving an average of 210 downloads per week.
Features
The platform provides essential capabilities for handling various software artifacts such as:
- Management of projects, use cases, iterations, and comprehensive project plans
- Tracking of change requests and defects
- Organization of test cases along with test plans
- Oversight of tasks, actors, and documentation
- Inclusion of a project glossary coupled with an embedded wiki
- Administration of developers and reporting features (including assignments, defect tracking, and cumulative flow analysis)
- Integration with SVN browser via Svenson
- Support for Continuous Integration through Hudson
- Automated email alerts
- Comprehensive support for multiple languages
System requirements
Endeavour operates on any application server compliant with Java EE standards and supports relational databases on various operating systems. It is compatible with most widely used web browsers due to its cross-browser functionality.
Usage
- Managing software development projects
- Employing iterative and incremental development approaches
- Utilizing use-case-driven methodologies
- Monitoring issues and defects
- Handling test case management
- Accessing an integrated wiki environment