Hansoft

Hansoft was founded on the idea that making a project plan upfront wasn’t the hard thing to do, but rather managing constant change. The tool was designed with values like team empowerment, transparency and collaboration in mind, rather than traditional command and control.
Today Hansoft spans a broad featureset and is used for collaboration and management in agile software development by teams around the world. With Hansoft more and more talented teams will bring better software products and services to the market by working more efficiently, being more innovative and make better business decisions.
Corporate history
Hansoft’s founders, Swedish software entrepreneurs Erik Olofsson, Hans Andersson, and Patric Palm are still active in the company. Even though the incorporation was a bit earlier, it was in 2005 that the owners fully committed their focus and passion to the company. They had been busy running other businesses but in 2005 they concluded that the need for a product like Hansoft was rapidly increasing in the software and game development industries and it was time to bring it to the world.
In the beginning, Hansoft focused on the game development industry. New game consoles coming into the market were rapidly increasing the budget, team size and complexity of making a game. The combination of a strong need for a tool that could truly address these challenges and the fact that game companies are comfortable with using emerging technologies, made this industry a perfect match and natural market to focus on. Early success in Europe and Australia was followed by North America and Asia, and today Hansoft is the leading tool for team collaboration, project management, and defect tracking in the game development industry.
In the beginning, Hansoft focused on the game development industry. New game consoles coming into the market were rapidly increasing the budget, team size and complexity of making a game.
However, the challenges with scaling agile and lean software development to large teams of teams are also found in other industries. Other tools in the market are slow and clunky to use and the real-time performance of Hansoft’s easy-to-use interface is now saving time for managers and teams in industries such as telecom, aerospace, space, defense, electronics, software products and cloud services. Most users are software developers but increasingly programs with both software and hardware teams are using Hansoft together to more rapidly bring better products to the market. With Hansoft more and more talented teams will bring better software products and services to the market by working more efficiently, being more innovative and making better business decisions.
Many awards have followed in the wake of rapidly growing international success. Among others, Hansoft has been awarded “Gartner Cool Vendor in PPM 2012? the “Develop Industry Excellence Award” by industry peers, the “Export Hermes” for successful export from Sweden and financial sustainability, the “Gasell of the year” for most rapid, still profitable, growth in Uppsala, and in the city the Hansoft owners has also been awarded “Business persons of the year”.