1. What is ZenTao for?

ZenTao is an open source project management software, developed by EasyCorp. Its main features are product management, project management, test management, document management, bug tracking, CI management and todo management. It is a professional Application Lifecycle Management(ALM) , covering the core process of software development.

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, a Scrum tool.

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 takes the cultural 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, it is named ZenTao.

3. The design philosophy of ZenTao ALM

ZenTao is based on Scrum, a popular Agile framework that is very pragmatic and easy to implement. It fits the fast iterative development of software projects. However, Scrum only defines the core management framework but leaves details and processes not extended/developed. Based on Scrum and the observation of the software development situations in China, ZenTao is released, integrating bug management, backlog management, test management, release management, document management, and reports, which covers the lifecycle of software development.

In ZenTao, the concepts of product, project, and test are clearly defined. The product team, the development team and the test team work together and check with each other while 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 ALM

• ZenTao is a professional development project management software for agile teams.
• ZenTao has precise and pragmatic management philosophy, which will accelerate agile development.
• ZenTao has full features, so you don’t have to integrate several systems together, like mantisbt + trac + testlink.
• Open source code and flexible extension mechanism, and is convenient to deploy and re-develop.
• Underlying framework and frontend UI framework are developed independently; robust and stable with a 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 could cost you ten thousands of dollars.
• Support various deployments, either private deployment or cloud services.

5. Features

• Product management: product, story, backlog, plan, release and roadmap
• Project management: project, Sprint, task, build and burndown chart
• Test management: bug, test case, test request and test result
• CI: Jenkins integration, automation testing, ZTF
  
• Document management: product document library, project document library and customized document library
• Work management: todo management and my task/ bug/ story/ project
• Company management: user, department, group and privileges
• Report: various statistical reports and custom reports
• Search feature: powerful search function helps you find the information you need
• Extensibility: extensible in almost any parts of ZenTao
• API mechanism: flexible for integration with other systems