Dimanager: A Tool for Distributed Software Development Management

In a competitive world, is very important that to have tools that offer an adequate support to the project manager with information about the development process. However at the moment, there is no a complete environment offering the adequate resources to develop distributed software, integrating both technical aspects related to software development and the management aspects. So it is very interesting to develop tools that offer an adequate support to project manager with technical and managerial information. This paper presents DIMANAGER a tool to manage the distributed software development, including planning and monitoring aspects. It is part of the DiSEN environment and offers the adequate technical and managerial information for the project manager. These information can be used to make decision about how the resources can be better used and also make decision regarding the actions that need to be taken to obtain a software with quality.