Notes and Attachments

OneBundle Project allows you to store notes and attachments related to the projects, tasks and bugs. This acts both as a discussion forum and document repository. You can upload a variety of different types of documents like Word, PDF, etc. The notes editor allows you to create formatted notes.

Within a project, you can see all the notes for all the bugs and tasks within the project. Or you can go to the specific task or bug and view the notes or attachments.

One way notes can be helpful in relation to a bug is to have a discussion between the developer, tester and manager regarding the bug and clear any misunderstandings. It can also be used to provide screenshots regarding the bugs.

Users can sort the notes and attachments as they need. Only users who created a note can modify or delete it – which ensures that someone’s input on a task or bug is not accidentally changed or removed.

For more information about the OBP product itself, please visit the OneBundle Project website.

Wiki Collaboration

How do you make collaboration among your team members easy? Especially when they may be in different geographic locations. One way is to make it simple for them to put information online and make it visible to their team mates.

OneBundle Project provides this through a mechanism called a “wiki“. The wiki allows users to create, edit and remove web pages that contains content created by the user through a simple online editor. You can create multiple wikis for a project and unlimited number of pages inside a wiki.

The wiki supports hyperlinks inside the page and display of HTML content. And a special feature of OneBundle Project is the ability to organize the wiki pages in folders. Folders themselves can be organized using parent and child folders. The folders can be arranged in any order.

In a sense, the OneBundle Project wiki module acts like a document management system, or like an Intranet knowledge base. While you may want to upload documents or write simple notes using the Notes / Attachments section within projects, tasks and bugs, the Wiki functionality allows you to have several pieces of information related to your project in one place.

For example, when we use OneBundle Project internally, we record Minutes of the Meetings, useful web links, special technical scenarios encountered during development, etc. The possibilities are endless. Take a tour and let us know your thoughts on what a wiki can do for your project.

For more information about the OBP product itself, please visit the OneBundle Project website.

Timesheet Management

OneBundle Project provides a convenient mechanism for reviewing team activities through daily timesheets. Using the data input by the development team, it generates accurate timesheets for different team members.

The timesheet module is very flexible. It allows the team members to enter time against specific projects and tasks (or even bugs), and then say whether the time is billable or non-billable. If it is non-billable, they can specify a reason. Also, it is not necessary to select a particular task or bug – the user can just enter a new task. Of course, you can do the opposite – force team members to always select tasks against which time can be entered.

The team members can submit their timesheets to their managers. They can also send a copy in email. Sometimes, if there are multiple levels of approval, the team members can allow the intermediate manager to edit the timesheet and then forward it on. Rejected timesheets are returned to the originating person.

Timesheets can be entered in a central timesheet screen. Or the user can decide to enter the time when they are updating the status of a task or a bug. Some people like the former as it is easy to see a consolidated view while other prefer the latter for data entry ease.

For executive staff, OneBundle Project provides a comprehensive view of the timesheets of the members of all or selected projects available in the system. The timesheet data is also used to calculate costs incurred in the project. These are available in the Reports section of the application.

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Access Rights

OneBundle Project maintains high integrity and security of data through the ability to customize permissions by various modules and different user groups. When each user is authenticated, their ability to access different modules in the application is only granted based on their roles and job functions. 

To achieve this, OneBundle Project provides an easy mechanism called a “system role”. Each system role provides different levels of rights (View, Add, Edit, Delete, etc.) for the various sections of the application. A system role can contain one or several users.

The system role allows the administrator to customize permissions through a very simple interface. For the end user, security is transparent – they will not be shown actions or items that they have no access to.

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Lifecycle Management

The Lifecycle Management in OneBundle Project (OBP) provides project managers with the control to divide the project into various logical time divisions. No matter what your methodology (CMMi or Scrum), OBP gives you the ability to tailor the lifecycle of your project.

Project Lifecycle provides a view of all the project steps namely versions, phases, milestones and deliverables. The entities are displayed in a tree structure (like Windows Explorer) with expand and collapse of the various steps. The entities in a lifecycle can be ordered in a hierarchy. And if you so desire, you can even break out of the hierarchy and organize your project steps in different ways.

In each task or bug, the user can provide details about which part of the lifecycle it belonged to. Do you want to know all the tasks that were associated with Version 3.1.2? It is just a matter of a single query. Did you move a task from one phase to another? Easy – an archive of all the updates made in a task or bug is maintained.

The lifecycle in OBP is not hard-coded to any specific methodology. You can tailor it to meet your unique and specific needs.

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