The Making of OnTime
Why try OnTime? OnTime is designed to help you and your team ship software on time. Part of enabling you to do that is making sure our software is fast, effective, intuitive and gets the job done. See for yourself.
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Why does the UI matter? The right UI will get used. It'll stay out of the way. It makes complex features discoverable and usable. It lends itself to speed and performance. Using software with a bad UI is like trying to drive a car with the steering wheel in the back seat. Good software can be beautiful, easy to use, and still have all the features you want and need — we strive to make sure OnTime is proof of this.
When you create a new OnTime database, the first time you log in, you will be given the choice of using Traditional or Agile/Scrum terminology.




Sometimes, it's when you're on the go that you need OnTime most. You'll want to be notified when a major bug is reported. If you think of a great new feature, you'll want to immediately enter it into the backlog. If a customer initiates a support request via the Customer Portal, you'll want to know about. That's why OnTime is mobile. No application needed just log in to your OnTime account through your mobile browser like you normally would on your desktop. It's seriously that simple.
Just hit the [Enter] key on any item that is highlighted in the main grid, and OnTime instantly provides you with that item's full details. And by "instantly," we do mean instantly. It's fast, it's beautiful, and it provides you with the information you need.
When you use the keyboard shortcut [C] to add a new item, the new Quick Add form immediately opens up giving you the ability to quickly add the title, hit [ENTER] and the item is instantly saved.
But for those times when you want the full add form to open, no sweat! Just hit [TAB].
GitHub is rapidly becoming the Distributed Software Code Management (DSCM) of choice for software dev teams. GitHub also offers limited, built-in work item tracking capabilities. For teams that outgrow GitHub’s item tracking capabilities, OnTime now provides GitHub integration that allows users to attach change sets to items being tracked in the OnTime system.
Additionally, OnTime now provides the ability import existing GitHub work items.
The Tortoise plug-in offers true integration between your Tortoise Subversion code repository and OnTime. While you and your team are updating files and committing changes using TortoiseSVN, you'll be able to link those files to defects, features, incidents or tasks within OnTime. This takes place inside of the Tortoise interface without having to launch OnTime. TortoiseSVN is a free add-on & it is included in the OnTime Suite, or it can be downloaded separately. Learn more »
The OnTime Visual Studio plugin is as agile as your dev team. Without getting in the way, and without forcing developers out of the Visual Studio environment.

The OnTime plugin for Eclipse is equally competent whether your developers run Eclipse on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux. Now your team can do it all without ever leaving the Eclipse environment.

What is the most logical way to think about projects? You start with the big ideas and then you cut them up into smaller "chunks." You group these chunks together, when it makes sense. You go from big to small. That's a hierarchy. It makes it easy to locate items, but even more importantly, it makes it easier to visualize and wrap your head around your projects.
What app do developers use more than any other? Yup, some sort of notepad. They're constantly jotting down notes. But, it's a pain to launch, write, save, and sort these notes. In fact, most of them never get saved. They just go bye-bye every time a computer is rebooted. Well, OnTime provides a built-in note-taking engine called Scratchpad. It auto-saves. It even auto-names each file. Scratchpad is the best place to take private notes about dev projects.
Don't you hate it when you want to do something in an app, but you can't find it? Well, in OnTime, it's all in one place. There is literally one menu item. It's organized. You'll quickly see all of OnTime's functionality and find what you're looking for.
