About the product

This document is about the reference product that is developed through our reference environment in order to evaluate our workflow and tool choices.

Contriboard is an open source realtime collaboration tool for teams. It targets primarily tablet and desktop users to enable all team members to participate. Contriboard is being developed with modern technologies and a workflow that allows for rapid deployment and shipping.

This document touches briefly on the history of this product and the need for an updated version: Contriboard. Contriboard is the reference product chosen to be run against our reference development environment. The work is done for research purposes in JAMK University of Applied Sciences.

The product in question is based on the original Teamboard from FreeNest Product Platform 1.4 developed during the CSW program 2011-2013. During the development of this platform and the original Teamboard, a need for this sort of product was recognized by the market.

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History of the product

Teamboard was a component of FreeNest Product Platform 1.4 developed during the CSW program 2011-2013. It was built on the need to have a ticket board, which could perform in different environments such as kanban and service design.

Teamboard allowed users to move their tickets freely around the board, it had infinite scrolling and zooming as core features. It did however lack any proper structure which would allow tickets to have proper state stored in them. Teamboard also featured a war-room mode to view the changes made in real time.

The original Teamboard had several ready made background canvases based on various business models.