FDD Project Management Application / News: Recent posts

What's new
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- Version 1.4.3 supports internationalization. A user may pick up a UI language. At the moment the two supported languages are English and Russian. See the FDDPMA Translation guide for more details: http://fddpma.sourceforge.net/tutorials.html

- Custom date formats are implemented. A user may pick up the desired date format using the Settings tab, Locale view.

- Application performance was optimized. ... read more

New in this release:
- Fixed rendering for Internet Explorer 7.0
- Improved rendering for Firefox 2.0
- Encrypted passwords in the database
- Implemented new report "Feature Completion Trend". Read User Guide chapter 18.5
- Minor bug fixes and enhancements

Visit project’s home page at http://fddpma.sourceforge.net to watch interactive tutorials that cover most important areas of the application.

You will learn how to create a new FDD project, record its features, and organize them into subject areas and the activities. The tutorials explain how to assign planned dates for project milestones, recruit project team and proceed to implementation by using workpackages.

New in this release:
- Implemented export/import according to FDDI specification
- Updated user guide. Read chapter 20 about export/import
- Improved rendering under Firefox browser
- Minor bug fixes and enhancements

New in this release:
- Tested with latest Tomcat 5.5.17 (also works with 5.5.7)
- Updated Installation Guide (make sure you read the section about Tomcat!)
- Configurable milestones for features (prev. version had them hard-coded)
- Any number of development stages per project (prev. version allowed only one)
- Notification if a user leaves web page without saving changed data
- Administrative interface into application (read user guide section 20)
- Ownership of features and workpackages
- Updated User Manual

The new release includes these features:
- FDDPMA may automatically calculate completion percent for project stages based on the tasks. Define a list of tasks for each project stage. As you update completion percent for the tasks, FDDPMA will re-calculate completion percent for the stages and for the whole project.
- FDDPMA now has a PDF report that lists all the tasks for a project stage.
- Progress reports now may be generated in both PDF and HTML formats.
- List of workpackages view has an option to display included features.
- A new Workpackages Progress report is useful for release meetings. It is similar to Plan View Report, but groups features into workpackages.
- FDDPMA now remembers per-user settings, such as width of navigation pane and others.
- You may now redefine source code ownership for a workpackage. This is useful when a team member leaves for vacation.
- Sorting capabilities have been added to many views.
- Numerous bug fixes

FDDPMA 1.0 is now available.