LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Countersoft has released version 5 of their Gemini project tracking software to help organizations standardize all task and project tracking needs onto a single platform. This release has been driven by a common challenge faced by organizations: deploy a single tool for task and project tracking that can be used by every team and project.
“People are growing tired of running multiple tools for team and project collaboration. We’ve all seen an explosion of such tools but they suffer from the same problem: narrow focus, niche deployment. Typically, software teams will deploy an Agile/Scrum tool, the project managers will deploy an issue tracking tool and IT will roll out a help desk product. Up until now, no single tool has had the depth of capability to go across multiple teams and solve those hard enterprise process challenges.” says Harvey Kandola, founder and CEO of Countersoft.
“Every team has their own way of working and their own processes. If your tool of choice doesn’t cater for multiple working methods then you will hit process barriers. Different teams will simply end up deploying tools that work for them”, says Kandola.
Gemini introduces best-of-breed Project Templates so different teams can set up projects that work the way they work. Central to this capability is the support for different taxonomy per project type such as “Scrum” for agile projects and “Tickets” for help desk projects.
“Gemini provides taxonomy by project type because such tooling needs to respect every team’s unique speak. There is only so far you will get by pushing a vanilla tool into different teams. That’s what we’ve been hearing from marketplace. So we designed Gemini 5 to ensure customers can consolidate all tracking and workflow across all teams and dispense with multiple tools like Jira, FogBugz, VersionOne and Zendesk. The alternative is to continue investing and managing different tooling and hope you can ‘connect the dots’ with initiatives like the Networked Help Desk. But in practice people would much rather settle on a single tool than hunt for tool connectors” concludes Kandola.
A unique aspect of Gemini is the AppNav™ approach to project navigation and project related emails. “AppNav™ is our way to ensure that you pin, share and navigate around projects, tasks and views that matter to you. It’s a fresh approach and one that also combines instant change notifications to finally kill off email-based notifications.”, says Kandola.
Another area that has received major focus is managing large backlogs in agile environments. “We see time and time again the challenges faced by large teams working Agile: how to scale. Gemini 5 introduces Swimlane Scrolling™ – the ability for teams to visually manage large backlogs by bringing additional data into view as required”, continues Kandola.
Gemini can be downloaded or used on-demand in the cloud.
Gemini has been deployed by over 8,000 customers in 75 countries. Gemini is a product of Countersoft, a UK-based privately-held software vendor.