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LibrePlan is a free software

Free software

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web application

Web application

A web application is an application that is accessed over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. The term may also mean a computer software application that is coded in a browser-supported language and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable.Web applications are...

for project management

Project management

Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end , undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value...

, developed by the Fundación para o Fomento da Calidade Industrial e Desenvolvemento Tecnolóxico de Galicia, dependent of the Ministry of industry of the Xunta de Galicia

Xunta de Galicia

The Xunta de Galicia is the collective decision-making body of the government of the autonomous community of Galicia, composed of the President, the Vice-President and the specialized ministers ....

. It counted with the collaboration of ACLUNAGA http://www.aclunaga.es/ and the financing of the Ministry of industry, tourism and Commerce

Ministry of Industry (Spain)

The responsibilities of the Spanish Ministry of Industry have varied greatly over time, until 2000 grouped industrial competence and energy. Then created the Ministry of Science and Technology that took over most of its powers...

and the regional Government of Galicia.

LibrePlan was formerly known as NavalPlan. It was created "to improve management of the production of the companies of the Galician naval auxiliary sector". LibrePlan is designed to respond to needs of these companies and organizational complexity and integration with production processes in the naval sector. However, it is of much more general applicability.

It is written in Java

Java

Java is an island of Indonesia. With a population of 135 million , it is the world's most populous island, and one of the most densely populated regions in the world. It is home to 60% of Indonesia's population. The Indonesian capital city, Jakarta, is in west Java...

and licensed under Affero General Public License license .

Computer system solutions to planning problems

Within the overall framework of LibrePlan and the management of the planning, Igalia

Igalia

Igalia is a private company, based in Spain, known for their contributions to the GNOME project, their work in the Maemo and MeeGo platforms, and the WebKitGTK+ project....

developed a project to solve a number of common problems of planning, co-funded by the Xunta de Galicia, the Ministry of industry, tourism and trade, and by the European Union

European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958...

(ERDF

European Regional Development Fund

The European Regional Development Fund is a fund allocated by the European Union.-History:During the 1960s, the European Commission occasionally tried to establish a regional fund. Only Italy ever supported this, however, and nothing came of it. Britain made it an issue for their accession in...

). Likewise, the project was part of the Avanza Plan (plan for improved knowledge society) of the Spanish government.
Features =
LibrePlan is a tool that allows you to plan, monitor, control and organize the tasks and projects of an organization. Within each group of processes. LibrePlan provides functionality in three areas: planning, monitoring and control.

Planning

At the level of planning, LibrePlan offers the following features:

Multi-project management. It offers an overview of the company with the ability to view all the projects that share resources from a same organization.
Allocation of resources, with support for multiple allocation by linear interpolation polynomial functions. You can create dynamic groups based on criteria. The criteria are entities of the system that allow to classify resources (both human and machine) and tasks. And there are 2 types of allocation: generic and specific. The generic is an allocation based on criteria for a task, and that they must be satisfied by the resources they have ability to do it. The specific allocation is to assign a resource to a specific task.
Flexible calendars/schedules, with the possibility of choice between several strategies for resource allocation: calculation of hours, resources per day or end based on variable date calculations.
Selection of points of planning from the elements that make up an order. An order (or project) is formed by a tree of elements of indefinite depth level. The tree can be carried planning in the nodes that you want the user in such a way that will manage the planning at desired levels of tree.
Task based on the training of resources allocation.
Specific management of queues for limiting resources.

Monitoring

At the level of monitoring, LibrePlan offers:

Support for introduction of parts of an hour of work on the tasks of the project, which allows to monitor the time invested.
It allows the introduction of types of progress on tasks, allowing the monitoring of the status of the projects.
Two possible views: global view company (or multiple projects) summary of detours and delays in the overall view of the company, and project view. The global view can view orders and check the State of the same, and and manage them, as well as view the general charge of the company's resources. View of project displays planning, resource load, advanced resource allocation and the edition of the selected order, because LibrePlan offers graphics in use of resources.
Configurable Gantt chart
Gantt chart
A Gantt chart is a type of bar chart that illustrates a project schedule. Gantt charts illustrate the start and finish dates of the terminal elements and summary elements of a project. Terminal elements and summary elements comprise the work breakdown structure of the project. Some Gantt charts...

from Work Breakdown Structure
Work breakdown structure
A work breakdown structure , in project management and systems engineering, is a deliverable oriented decomposition of a project into smaller components. It defines and groups a project's discrete work elements in a way that helps organize and define the total work scope of the project.A work...

(WBS).
Resource Breakdown Structure
Resource Breakdown Structure
In project management, the resource breakdown structure is a hierarchical list of resources related by function and resource type that is used to facilitate planning and controlling of project work...

(RBS) chart.

Control

To control the situation, LibrePlan has the following features:

Cost analysis and control of tasks based on work reports.
Global management: manage all global mode for an organization or company information, a control that supports the strategic decision-making on the productive capacity of the company can be.
Reports: Generation of report
Report
A report is a textual work made with the specific intention of relaying information or recounting certain events in a widely presentable form....

s of results.
Indicators of control of projects such as the overhead resource allocation control, Earned Value Management
Earned value management
Earned value management is a project management technique for measuring project performance and progress in an objective manner. EVM has the ability to combine measurements of scope, schedule, and cost in a single integrated system. Earned Value Management is notable for its ability to provide...

or control of material requirements.
Management of labels and label for extraction of filtered information types. Given that the system has a range of elements labeled or marked tasks and resources, you can use filtering criteria or tags, which allows access to categorized information or extract specific reports based on criteria or tags.
Calendars: they determine the available productive hours of different resources. The user can create general calendar of the company and get features to perform more specific timetables, reaching as far as level of calendar by task or resource.
Order and elements of order: jobs requested by clients in LibrePlan are in the form of order, structured in elements of order. The order with its elements form a hierarchical structure in n levels. This tree of elements is about which one works at the time of planning a work/job.
Progress: allows you to manage various types of progress. A project can be measured as a percentage (%) of progress, however, it's also measured in units, agreed budget, etc. The person who manages the planning is responsible for deciding that type of advance is used to compare progress to senior levels of project.
Parts: they are documents of the workers of companies that indicate the hours worked and the tasks assigned to the hours of work for each worker. With this information, the system is able to calculate how many hours consumed a task with respect to the total number of budgeted hours, allowing to compare the progress made with regard to the real consumption of hours.

Other functions

In addition to the above, cade highlight other features that distinguish the similar applications programme:

Integration with other LibrePlan instances and third-party ERP
Enterprise resource planning
Enterprise resource planning systems integrate internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application...

software: LibrePlan will import information directly of the ERP programmes of companies for orders, human resources
Human resources
Human resources is a term used to describe the individuals who make up the workforce of an organization, although it is also applied in labor economics to, for example, business sectors or even whole nations...

, working parties and certain criteria.
Management of versions: the application will allow the management of various versions of planning and at the same time check the information of each one of them.
Management of historic: LibrePlan does not delete information, only invalid, so it is possible to consult through filtering by data and old information.
Other functionalities: Materials, quality forms, project templates, planning scenarios, multiple task progress measurement ...

Since LibrePlan contains 'naval' references in its name, it is important to stress that it is a general web application useful for any organization/person who wants to plan several projects and resources.

External links

LibrePlan
LibrePlan in Sourceforge
SourceForge
SourceForge Enterprise Edition is a collaborative revision control and software development management system. It provides a front-end to a range of software development lifecycle services and integrates with a number of free software / open source software applications .While originally itself...

Wiki of LibrePlan