TaskJuggler
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| TaskJuggler | |
 TaskJuggler Projektmanagement Software |
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| Developer: | The TaskJuggler Team |
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| OS: | Linux |
| Use: | Office Application |
| Website: | TaskJuggler |
TaskJuggler is a project management software for Linux and Unix Operating Systems. It is using a new approach of a textual project description. This lets the project manager focus on the information that is known about the project at any stage of the project. TaskJuggler then turns this information into meaningful reports including the popular Gantt and Pert charts. It was designed to handle large and complex projects with over 10000 tasks and 1000 resources. It supports the project manager in all phases of a project, from the initial idea, to effort estimation, budgeting and status tracking.
The textual project description sets TaskJuggler apart from other project management programs. It allows the user to focus on the work breakdown structure, task priorities and dependencies, the given resources and their availability. Based on the provided constrains TaskJuggler computes the optimal schedule for the given task items. The built-in load balancer honors working hours and levels the usage of resource automatically. TaskJuggler computes task intervals, allocation times for every resource, and a profit/loss analysis for the project. These results can then be turned in a large number of reports by using a filtering mechanism that can be used to restrict the information to the subset to be presented.
The TaskJuggler Project was started in 2001 by Chris Schläger. It typically releases between 2 to 3 stable versions per year. The first releases were just a commandline tool that generated HTML reports. Since August 2005 it also features a graphical front-end that is based on the KDE libraries.
