Overview

ProjectVue is designed to help companies manage information relating to to their software development projects. It aims to promote information sharing between project stakeholders and to provide developers with easy access to relevant project information (including any significant historical information).

ProjectVue includes a Windows client application, and a web-based interface that can be used by offsite employees/contractors. The web interface is also an extranet that allows your customers to submit feature requests and bug reports, and to track project status.

When will ProjectVue be released?

ProjectVue will be release on Wednesday, 1st August 2007. The initial release will include the ProjectVue central database and the Windows client.

The release date for the ProjectVue web-based interface will be announced shortly.

What kind of information can my team track with ProjectVue?

• Project details
• Stakeholder inputs (eg meeting notes or emails from clients)
• User and technical requirements
• Product components/project deliverables
• Project tasks (includes timesheets)
• Project issues/questions that need to be resolved
• Project risks
• Bugs
• Incidents

ProjectVue makes it easy to record and view the dependencies between project items. Each item includes an area that shows every other item it traces from and to. This makes it much easier for developers to see how design changes in one part of the system might impact on other areas of the system.

All items can have supporting files and hyperlinks attached to them.

ProjectVue can maintain a complete history of each item in the database so that you can see who has made changes and when they were made. It also allows you to restored an item to any previous version.

User Management and Security

ProjectVue includes both internal users (employees and contractors) and external users (clients, customers, and other end users). Users are grouped into departments and companies, and these groups provide an easy way to control access to projects.

Access to project items is controlled using ProjectVue's customisable user groups.

ProjectVue has a built-in authentication system, and also supports integration with Active Directory.

Other Key Features

• ProjectVue's flexible search system includes the ability to save complex search filters for reuse
• Get quick access to important items by adding them to your Favourites list
• ProjectVue automatically maintains a list of your recently views items
• ProjectVue alerts allow you to get notifications when other users add or modify items you are interested in
• ProjectVue will allow you to specify email accounts that your customers can use to submit project feature requests and bug reports

How much will ProjectVue licences cost?

Full licensing and pricing details will be available closer to the release date.

Technology

ProjectVue is developed using the Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 (Windows Forms and ASP.NET) and SQL Server 2005. Detailed system requirements will be published closer to the release date.

For more information

For more information about ProjectVue, or if you would be interested in participating in our upcoming beta testing program, please email Guy Penfold (guy.penfold@pds.com.au).