Possibly unhelpful and definitely a time sink: an extensive discussion of daunting project management efforts and tools for helping, with an emphasis on the visual:
http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=000076 The comments lack dates, but I am pretty sure the first ones are close to a decade old. The most recent are probably from the last year. ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Greg Wilson" <[email protected]> > To: "Software Carpentry Discussion" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 8:06:35 AM > Subject: Re: [Discuss] Tools for managing future project pipeline... > > Dude... I'd be happy if I could just keep track of the conversation, > never mind probabilities... But if anyone does know, it's become very > relevant to Software Carpentry's future as well - pointers would be very > welcome. > Thanks, > Greg > > On 2014-11-20 10:43 AM, Hetherington, James wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > So, here in UCL Research IT, we’ve got a growing pipeline of future > > research programming collaborations, both free and paid, both research > > council funded and paid consulting, > > and both already won and waiting for peer review. > > > > Our ability to manage all of this is scaling beyond simple spreadsheets… I > > feel that we ought to be using our data-science-fu to help on the > > management side here... > > > > Does anyone on this list have any advice about tooling that can be used to > > model a pipeline of research grants and consulting projects? > > > > Ideally, with probabilistic modelling of expected and upper and lower > > bound future grant income following assignment of probabilities of success > > to proposals, and similar > > modelling of staff availability, recruitment delays etc… > > > > Ideally either a FOSS solution I can install or a subscription cloud-based > > service. I want to avoid anything with either a very "Enterprise IT” or an > > old-style public sector IT feel! > > > > I’m aware that there are quite a lot of people interested in collaborative > > research support and Team Science on this list, and setting up data > > science/research software > > institutes etc, so others here have probably encountered the same problem. > > > > Happy to take this topic by direct mail off-list as it’s skirting the edge > > of on-topic-ness. Greg to decide... > > > > -- > Dr. Greg Wilson | [email protected] > Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
