Objective
The FDD Tools project aims to produce an open source,
cross-platform toolkit supporting the Feature Driven Development methodology.
Motivation
Having used FDD on several successful projects, we developed a simple tool to produce project tracking graphics to share with our management team and organization at large. This tool provides support for only a small part of the FDD methodology, however, we hope others may find it useful even in the current state. We also hope that we can continue to develop the tool; and, with the help of the community, produce something that effectively supports the need of organizations using FDD.
We have benefited from open source, so we also want to contribute something back to the community.
Status
September 13, 2006 -- The FDD Tools team is pleased to announce another new member. Welcome to the team Alex.
Alex has added support to run FDD Tools as an Applet, and done some great refactoring. We'll work on getting the code finalized and into CVS in the next few days.
We're also working on getting Preferences Persistence complete, which will bring us to Release 1.0. Once that is complete we will be refocusing our efforts on the 2.x Release, which will bring improved usability and broader functionality. More news on 2.x after we get 1.0 done.
Thanks
We would like to express our special thanks to Ms. Carrie Wang and Ms. Yue Yuan for their help in providing the Chinese and Japanese translations for the product.
Screen Shots
There are some screenshots (everybody loves screenshots) so you can get a feel for the application before you grab a copy.
We hope the application is very intuitive to use, but you can take a look at the Quick Start page for some more detail on using the application.
Application Downloads
The following items are currently available for download.
Sample, non-native data files
FDD Tools supports the import of CSV (comma seperated values) files exported from Microsft Project. Below find links to sample CSV files and a sample Microsoft Project file that can be used to export CSV files in the required format.
Other Requirements
This project makes use of these open source components: