During 80's and 90's Project Management tools developed a strong focus
on time-management and gantt-like diagrams.
Contemporanius tools are developing more comunication-centric solutions.
Less enfasis on time management and focus on quality, scope, risk and
comunication managment.
]Project-Open[ is a good example of this: gantt-diagram was just
recently incorporated by using gantt-project funcionality.
Artemis-7 and Change Point are comercial examples of this.
Basic-Gantt-Diagram is a must... but, advanced-gantt-diagram not.
Integration of other-solutions (like Gantt-Project) with OpenOffice
products/facilities (sheets, database, email, docs-version control, etc)
may be an interesting option.
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Shawn Abigail escreveu:
I would say the object is to create a highly usable open source
project management utility that is part of the Open Office family of
products.
The pragmatic side of me says that there is no virtue in making a
clone of MS-Project and there is no virtue in making OOPM different
than MS-Project. The majority of Project Managers use tools similar to
MS-Project, so we can expect a WBS, Gantt, etc., and an interface that
is as easy to use as MS-Project. However we've all hit limitations
with MS-Project over the years and we'd like to create a product that
overcomes those limitations. That's my view anyway.
Regards,
Shawn
----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcos Abreu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <dev@oopm.openoffice.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 5:52 AM
Subject: Re: [oopm-dev] More Faces / TaskJuggler...
Is this project objective develop a "MS-Project like OpenOffice
solution" (same features) or a "New concept solution"?
Abreu
Malcolm McKinnon escreveu:
All,
Agreed that the product is very different from MS Project,
however, I see
a) a way to address this shortcoming,
b) benefits to the new package.
Way to adress the MS Project Different:
Provide a more spreadsheet like interface that the recommended
Cheetah python links can pull from (think one for resources, one for
tasks, etc.).
Benefits to the new package:
a) Easier constraint representation - I think MS Project actually
hides constraints (hidden in tabbed dialog boxes). Faces I find
exposes them better. Faces / TaskJuggler's XML files are pretty
human readable.
b) Easier ERP Updates - XML files built / pulled through Cheetah.
c) Its open source
e) New optimization functions are also easier to build than in MS
Project
Cheers,
--Malcolm.
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