A simple project (or production) planning tool
SO Planning is a french tool, designed to easily plan projects or tasks, in order to manage and define work for a whole team.
No Gantt diagram in SO Planning : the objective is to offer an immediate view on "who do what, when, on which projet" in calendar mode.
Basical principle : a list of projects, a list of users, and periods of work on each project.
The tool is easy to use, resting on sober and clear interfaces (see screenshots below).
Online demo
You can try the tool here : online demo.
login : admin
password : admin
Features
- Projects management
- Project categories and colours (efficient display)
- Users management, with simple rights
- No complex planning option : who works on which project, for how many time
- Periods recap on the bottom of the planning (legend)
- Date selection, through calendar or directly by clicking on the right day in the planning
- Printable version
- Ajax based interfaces, for more interaction
- Drag and drop capability for periods
- Templating system, make quick modifications
Technology
Below a not exhaustive list of integrated modules. All are used on several projects on the web.
- Xajax : Ajax framework for PHP. Link
- Smarty : templating system. Link
- Prototype window : "in page" Window management. Link
- DHTML Goodies calendar. Link
- DHTML Color Picker. Link
Screenshots
See on Sourceforge some screenshots, showing the different screens available. Try the demo to understand how it works. Screenshots : click here.
Some history
This tool is used since 4 years, as a web production manager, regularly printed for report / tracking.
It will never be a strong project management software, with Gantt, cost control, etc. It only permits to plan work for each person, and it makes it well.
Please, let us know which problems you may encounter, and which features should be usefull.
Thanks to sourceforge for the project hosting .
Contributors
thanks to them for questions / proposal / reports. Be the next...
Alexandre Vicq (Fr), Thierry Joly (Fr), Djipeg (Fr), Ugo Mattia (Ita, project member), Alain Cornille (Fr), nrdbview (Fr).
Rodolphe Servières, SOPlanning creator.