Falafel Software has released its quarterly update of its popular ActiveFocus product management and team collaboration tool. Read more about the latest version.

TelerikTV.com was released this week as a show site for case studies involving Telerik technologies.  Falafel Software is very pleased to have its flag ship product, ActiveFocus, be the first product showcased on the site.  I was interviewed by my friend Cark Franklin, co founder of the very successful .NET Rocks! Internet audio talk show for .NET Developers, for an hour, we discussed the elegance and power of the Telerik radControls and dived into source code to demonstrate the architecture and implementation of these amazing components.

Go view the video today and let us know what you think! :)

If you want to set the same value on a whole set of rows, you can use ActiveFocus powerful multi edit feature to save time.

I was reading some articles recently regarding what companies are doing to collaborate, not just with their team, but with their company and clients. Project management and collaboration software is becoming more mainstream as technology has advanced allowing more tasks to be automated as well as making it much easier for teams to work together remotely. I came across an article from CIO talking about a large upswing in companies with 1,000 employees or more that will be implementing a formal collaboration technology strategy for 2008. This was from a survey taken from Forrester Research and shows that the value of proper collaboration tools are starting to really penetrate the market, which should help to spur strides in social technologies even more.

If you need to quickly go to a specific artifact, and you know it's number, this is what to do...

ActiveFocus has a powerful built in Free Text Search capability.

In most projects, you will want to subdivide your project into separate phases, steps, milestones, iterations or whatever it is you call them. We will call them Milestones.

You can specify how many rows you want to see in your main grids.

At the end of an event/milestone if you entered defects against a project, you will typically need to review your bugs. Here is an example of how to use the filter to do this.

It’s a big week for the staff at Falafel who has been cooking up a course certain to whet the appetite for project teams everywhere. With the release of ActiveFocus, the Falafel team has once again demonstrated their ability to deliver as promised.