I met Pietro Polsinelli, one of the
TeamWork creators, at JAOO (Danish Java/methodo/.Net) conference, where he demonstrated their brain child. We were very impressed by the detailed user interface of this web application, which looks more like a desktop application.
Since JAOO (September '06), I randomly looked at the TeamWork on-line demos, though I couldn't (then) clearly figure out what to do with the application.
Between Christmas and new year, I had a look at BaseCamp (one of TeamWork's competitors) which is a beautiful application for managing tasks. I immediately saw how we could benefit from it. While it is very easy to use, it's just wasn't powerful enough for our needs.
So, I tried Teamwork again and could realize why (in the heck) it had so many features. I finally realized that TeamWork was exactly what I needed for part of our team.
Our JavaBlackBelt development team uses a bug/request tracker (JavaForge.com).
Our commercial team uses a CRM (SalesForce.com).
And now, the rest of our team (management, back office/admin, PR/media, marketing) uses
TeamWork.
We started 10 days ago and we have more than 200 tasks in it. These tasks come from individual to-do lists and now they are in a team repository :-)
Many thanks to Pietro Polsinelli and his team!
Pietro, you must be one darn brilliant Java web developer to have made that! We hope to see you (soon) with a black belt.
John Rizzo
Co-creator of JavaBlackBelt
