NavalPlan
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Description
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*NavalPlan* is a free software web application for project management.

*NavalPlan* is a planning tool for users based on some concepts: company and
multi-project overview, criteria assignments, tasks tagging, resources
management, resource allocation (specific and generic), company load control,
external integration, etc.

Although its name is clearly related to shipbuilding, *Navalplan* is a fully
useful planning tool for any type of company whose workflow requires project and
order administration and scheduling.

Features
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* Multiproject management. It offers a global vision of the company managing
  several projects sharing resources.
* Group resource allocations: dynamic groups based on criteria.
* Flexible calendars.
* Configurable Gantt chart from Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) [1]_.
* Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS) chart [2]_.
* Overload resource allocation control.
* Earned Value Management [3]_.
* Cost analysis based on work reports.
* Integration with other *NavalPlan* instances and third-parties.
* Other functionalities: Materials, quality forms, project templates, planning
  scenarios, multiple task progress measurement ...


Requirements
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* *JRE 6* - Java Runtime Environment

  Project depends on Java 6 and JRE is needed in order to run it

* *PostgreSQL* - Object-relational SQL database

  A database server is needed. You could use *PostgreSQL* or *MySQL* as you
  prefer.

* *Tomcat 6* - Servlet and JSP engine

  Server to deploy the application. You could use *Jetty* instead.

* *JDBC Driver* - Java database (JDBC) driver for PostgreSQL

  To connect application with *PostgreSQL* database in *Tomcat*

* *GNU FreeFont* - Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono Truetype fonts

  Font family used in reports

* *CutyCapt* - Utility to capture WebKit's rendering of a web page

  Required for printing

* *Xvfb* - Virtual Framebuffer 'fake' X server

  Used by CutyCapt for printing

See ``INSTALL`` file for installation instructions.

See ``HACKING`` file for compilation requirements and instructions.


Availability
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The cutting-edge version of this project is always available from the Git
repository at http://navalplan.git.sourceforge.net/.

Released versions are available at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/navalplan/files.


Webpage
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You can find more information about *NavalPlan* at
http://www.navalplan.org/en/.

For information related with *NavalPlan* development you can visit the wiki at
http://wiki.navalplan.org/.


Reporting bugs
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Please use the bug tracker to report bugs at http://bugs.navalplan.org/.


License
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*NavalPlan* is released under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public
License version 3 [4]_.

Please read the ``COPYING`` file for details.


Authors
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This project is sponsored by *Fundación para o Fomento da Calidade Industrial e
o Desenvolvemento Tecnolóxico de Galicia* [5]_.

Please see ``AUTHORS`` file for more information about the authors.



.. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_Breakdown_Structure
.. [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Breakdown_Structure
.. [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_Value_Management
.. [4] http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl.html
.. [5] http://www.fundacioncalidade.org/