Servage Magazine

Web development goes though many stages. It all starts with a great idea or vision that turns into a real concept, the base for your application and business. Often multiple persons are involved in the project, it takes a team effort to be successful. And being successful is what it’s all about, since no one can feed himself from great ideas alone.

So how do you ensure success from the beginning? You can’t! But what you definitely can do, is improve the odds. You can surround yourself and your project with skilled and ten-oriented people, you can use professional management tools, and much more. Another thing that you definitely can do, is to use a great tool to organize your collaborative effort, to streamline development and make sure everyone is pulling in the same direction.

Springloops is a web development collaboration studio, used by thousands of professional developers, to manage hand improve their development experience. It has the following functionality listed on their website:

• Tickets & Collaboration. Innovative ticket management that many people fall in love with.
• Deployments. Truly instant deployments, no shared queueing!
• Version control. Trusted, private Git and Subversion hosting.
• Groups & Permissions. Bring your clients and external contractors onboard.

It’s quick and easy to setup an account. You can start with a free one, upgrading to various premium ones, depending on your needs. The control panel is simple and easy to use. It offers the following core options.

The main features of the control panel

Overview gives you a quick glance at how your project is doing, who did what etc. It’s your starting point to get up to speed on recent events.

Milestones is where you can track the overall progress of your project, so you always know where you’re at.

Tickets harbors a very extensive ticketing system, allowing for all kinds of reporting and bug-tracking workflows. This is very important to effective development, and works great here.

Wiki is basically what the name states ;-) You can write articles related to your project.

Source & Deploy is where you control your versions. This area might be a bit confusing to new users, but that is caused by the general complexity of version control. Springloops actually managed to make this easier to grasp than many other apps.

Apps shows integration options with other apps. Very useful for integration with other management processes.

Another thing that’s really cool about this app, is that every function you haven’t used yet, is accompanied by getting-started help.

Conclusion

No matter if you’re already using another web development management tool, or if you’re new to the area: Springloops is worth a glance. It can definitely add value to your workflow. It’s accompanied with a beautiful web interface and fair prancing, and even has a free account.