Press release

Hansoft to release support for agile methodology this summer

Swedish project management software vendor Hansoft will in the end of this summer release a version with support for agile methodologies like SCRUM and eXtreme Programming.

- Hansoft has always been a fast and easy collaboration tool for not only project managers but all developers. Now teams using agile methodology will also be able to benefit from the usability, says Hansoft Managing Director Patric Palm.

Hansoft is used for managing tasks and collaboration on a day by day basis by programmers, artists, project mangers and producers. Hansoft is also used by executives for portfolio management and by clients and outsourcing partners to be closely involved in the production without having access to its all parts.

- We believe the Hansoft level of usability is key in mid or large size agile productions where the amount of information is massive and distributed on several teams. You can’t really be agile if the used tool isn’t fast and easy, says Patric Palm.

With the new agile release projects using agile methodology with backlogs, iterations, burndowns etc can exist parallel with task scheduling projects. Resource usage and portfolio management can then be run in one integrated solution. Agile can also be used for a subproject within a production project. For example the milestone plan and parts of the production which naturally use task scheduling can be managed parallel to parts of the project that uses agile methodology.

- With Hansoft you don’t need to have separate tools and a “religious war” between methodologies. You can now in one tool use agile and task scheduling projects in parallel. You can even have agile cells of sub teams within a development project. With Hansoft you don’t need to choose one methodology, now you can have both, says Patric Palm.