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Planbox is a web based Agile project management tool for software development as well as for other projects. Agile is the most popular software development method widely adopted by the industry. Planbox‘s agile implementation allows you to keep track of tasks, items, people and overall project progress through a very different but efficient way.

Planbox provides a robust user interface to ensure high productivity for the whole development cycle which may seems a bit complex on the on first sight. But, the user interface is well designed, very interactive and truly informative and all the development and management operations are performed trough only few pages. Unlike other project management software, here you don’t have to look around multiple pages to perform various related tasks. This will keep your entire team more focused and will save cumulative time in daily reporting and task management activity.

In Planbox, projects are organized in two levels, initiatives and projects. Initiatives can be called as your company or business unit which can have multiple projects under its workspace.  You can add as many people you want to your project and assign them various roles. For each project, you can add multiple work unit/functionality as items to your agile iteration cycle and set type, priorities, description, labels etc. Each item can have multiple tasks with estimated time to complete and can be assigned them to team members. From here user can start working on assigned tasks and mark it as complete when done, time elapsed on each item will be calculated automatically. If necessary, files can be uploaded to any item and user can write comment/review with email notification to keep team members updated on progress. You can move items back and forth through the iterations easily. And all these operations are normally done form one single Plan page making it a easy to use tool.

Form The Plan page, you can view different progress bar for different matrices including progress for items, users, projects etc. The Plan page also lets you filter items and data through different filters matrices, you can filter items by projects, people, type, role, label, importance, value, etc. And all the data shown on the page are updated interactively as you set different filters which is another strong feature of this attractive software.

Planbox‘s dashoboad shows progresses of your projects for the current iteration cycle. You can see latest activities on projects, top priorities and the Burndown chart. The Burndown chart shows the tasks remaining in the current iteration cycle giving you an idea how you are going to meet the target by the end of the iteration.

Planbox comes with three different pricing plan including a limited edition free plan which is more than enough to test the platform. If you are looking for a high productivity project management tool, this might be what you are looking for. So, please give it a try and let us know your feedback.