LibrePlan (formerly known as NavalPlan) is a web application for project planning, monitoring and control.
It is a collaborative tool to plan, monitor and control projects and has a rich web interface which provides a desktop alike user experience. All the team members can take part in the planning and this makes possible to have a real-time planning.
LibrePlan is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Web based interface.
- Resource management:
- Two type of resources: machines and workers.
- Create dynamic groups based on criteria.
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- Flexible calendars easily reusable: calculation of hours, resources per day or end based on variable date calculations.
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- Resource configuration based on skills and roles.
- Task based on the training of resources allocation.
- Specific management of queues for limiting resources.
- Planning:
- Simple way to configure and estimate the work to plan. It
is carried out through Work Breakdown Structures (WBS). - Configurable Gantt chart from Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) with live editing.
- Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS) chart.
- Simple way to configure and estimate the work to plan. It
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- Different detail levels during the planning.
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- Two ways to allocate resources:
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- Specific allocation: Concrete individuals.
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- Assisted generic allocation: Based on skills and roles fulfilled by the resources.
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- Templates to reuse work. Projects can be created based on templates for repeatable tasks being able to save time.
- Automatic resource reallocation in order to minimize overload (overtime)
- Advanced allocation. Manual configuration of daily work hours on a task when automatic allocation does not suit your needs.
- Monte Carlo method. Statistical simulation to calculate the possibility to complete a project in a range of dates.
- Projects control and monitoring:
- Company global analysis.
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- Earned Value Management. Project management method to objectively measure progress and performance of a project.
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- Planning quality management. It is possible to control quality of the tasks to be performed through forms.
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- Projects cost analysis.
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- Reported hours: worked hours are assigned to each task to
track costs during the planning.
- Reported hours: worked hours are assigned to each task to
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- Progress measurement through different unit types.
- Outsourcing:
- Project tasks can be outsourced and sent to the LibrePlan installation of the supplier.
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- You can receive progress notifications of the subcontractors to know how outsourced tasks are evolving.
- Other features:
- Materials. You can manage the materials that planned tasks need to be carried out.
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- Complete users system with permissions, LDAP authentication, etc.
- Global management: manage all global mode for an organization or company information.
- Reports: Generation of reports of results.
- Internationalization support: Catalan, Chinese, Czech, English, Galician, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmal, Russian, and Spanish.
Website: www.libreplan.dev
Support: Wiki, GitHub
Developer: Jacobo Aragunde Pérez, Xavier Castaño García, Ignacio Díaz Teijido, Susana Montes Pedreira, Francisco Javier Morán Rúa, Diego Pino García, Manuel Rego Casasnovas, Lorenzo Tilve Álvaro
License: GNU Affero GPL v3
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