Yep, exactly... that sort of tool would be incredibly handy and yet nothing out there seems to do it.
Oh well, maybe we'll end up building it ourselves. If we do I'll try to open source it and/or release it as a product. ;) Nicholas On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Luke Hankins <[email protected]> wrote: > * Nicholas Tang wrote: >> Ultimately those are all great tools (to some degree ;) ) for managing >> projects, but not so much for prioritizing multiple projects and >> seeing how that impacts scheduling/ resourcing... that's what I'm >> really struggling to find. > > A year or so I started dreaming about something similar. > > I think the thing I've been missing is a way to quickly model the hourly > prioritization changes that a sysadmin manager has to deal with. > > "Ok, so you want a new stack of machines and that esoteric piece of > software? That'll, let's see... *click* *click*... push project X out a > day and project Y will slip a week." > > I want to be able to, at the core, dynamically drag rectangles representing > tasks around on a set of timelines, one for each resource. Out of that > comes reports about project end times, etc. (But the more features you add > (dependencies, half-available resources, wildcard resources, baselines, > etc.), the more it starts looking like MS Project...) > > I haven't found anything that can do it, unfortunately. I smell a niche > for a product. Perhaps if enough sysadmins get laid off in the upcoming > bloodbath, one of us will have the spare time to write it. :-) > > (And Jim, if you expect me to remember a piece of project management > software we used a decade ago, well, let's just say I don't remember what I > had for breakfast these days.) > > -Luke > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
