1. What is ZenTao for?

ZenTao is an open source project management software, developed by Qingdao Nature Easy Soft Network Technology Co. Ltd. Combining product management, project management, quality management, document management, organization management and to-do management. It is a professional project management software, covering the core processes of software development projects.

ZenTao is practical and pragmatic. It has full features and beautiful interfaces, and is easy to use. Zentao is well structured and can be flexibly extended. It also has powerful search features, various forms of statistical reports and complete API. 

ZenTao focuses on development project management!

2. Why is it called ZenTao?

Zen(禅) and Tao(道) are the two Chinese characters that have rich meanings in both religion and culture. ZenTao Project Management Software take the cutural meaning of Zen and Tao, and is expected to convey our understanding and thinking of management. Inspired by The Tao of Programming and The Zen of Programming, we named our software ZenTao.

3. Design philosophy of ZenTao PMS

The main design philosophy of ZenTao Project Management Software is based on Scrum, an internationally popular agile management methodology. Scrum is very pragmatic and easy to operate, so it fits in the fast iterative development of software projects. However, Scrum only defines the core management framework. There are still many details and processes have to be extended and developed. Based on the philosophy of Scrum and with the observation of the current R&D status in China, ZenTao integrates bug management, test case management, release management and document management, and it completely covers the entire life cycle of software R&D. In ZenTao, the concepts of product, project and test are clearly defined. Product team, developing team and testing team coordinate and check with each other while they function differently. The three teams interact with each other through stories, tasks and bugs, and eventually deliver the product with quality.

4. Why choose ZenTao PMS

• ZenTao is a professional development project management software and cannot be replaced by simple project management software.
• ZenTao has precise and pragmatic management philosphy, which will accelerate agile development.
• ZenTao has full features, so you don’t need to integrate several systems together, like mantisbt + trac + testlink.
• Open source code and flexible extension mechanism, and is convenient to uses and re-develope..
• Underlying framework and front-end UI framework developed independently; robust and stable with beautiful interface and friendly interaction.
• Perfect community mechanism; you can get technical support and help in time.
• Zero input which means you have no risk for choosing ZenTao compared with other business software that cost you tens of thousands of dollars.
• Support various deployments, either private deployment or cloud services.

5. Features of ZenTao PMS

• Product management: including products, stories, plans, releases and roadmaps;
• Project management: including projects, tasks, teams, builds and burndown charts;
• Quality management: including bugs, test cases, test tasks and test results;
• Document management: including product document library, project document library and customized document library;
• Work management: including to-do management and personal work management like my tasks, my bugs, my story and my projects;
• Organization management: including departments, users, groups and privileges;
• Report: various statistical reports;
• Search feature: powerful search help you find the data you need.
• Extension mechanism: extensible almost anywhere in ZenTao;
• API mechanism: convenient for integration with other systems.