Hi Mark, Thanks for your feedback - much appreciated! I'll give short answers here and then I will elaborate more in a separate e-mail directly to you. Work Items List: ProjectKoach separates the "what" from "when and how long does it take" of the work to be done, in the Project Input and Iterations views respectively. Or, the other way around, in ProjectKoach the concept of OpenUP's Work Items List is implemented by these two views combined.
Feeding of EPF meta-data into ProjectKoach: this is on our wish-list but at this time it is a manual procedure to create the process model. (a fairly quick, but still manual, procedure) Who should I be talking to, to learn more about the ins and outs of reading EPF meta-data, and perhaps see a couple of code samples? Thanks, Bjorn Bjorn Gustafsson GOOD Software Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.goodsoftware.ca www.projectkoach.com tel: +1-604-948-2006 cell: +1-604-644-9051 fax: +1-604-677-5948 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 7:49 AM To: Eclipse Process Framework Project Developers List Subject: Re: [epf-dev] Jump-start OpenUP projects with ProjectKoach - afree project management tool Hi Bjorn I have just started to look at ProjectKoach and it looks really - well - Good :-) It's both exciting and gratifying to see the tools market growing around OpenUP and EPF. I have a couple of comments on what I have seen so far. I have to stress that I have only just started to look at this so there may already be features which answer my questions that I have not yet seen. Firstly, the default view for projects using the OpenUP template presents the Use Case Model as the initial entry under the Project Input tab. In OpenUP, we drive the project with a Work Items List (which should include the fulfilment of use cases but can include other things too). Having the list of use cases presented like this is helpful but I wonder if the primary entry for Project Input in ProjectKoach should be the Work Items List when using the OpenUP template. See the attached screen shot for an idea of what I mean. (See attached file: projectKoach.JPG) Second, I see the tool allows me to define a project template from an existing PK project, which is great as it lets me re-use stuff. I wonder if the tool can also generate a project template file by reading EPF Composer metadata? This would me to quickly populate the Iterations, Tasks and Solutions panes with info from OpenUP, OpenUP/DSDM Scrum and XP EPF plugins. I look forward to getting to know this product more. We should probably take our discussion about my questions on ProjectKoach features outside epf-dev but I just wanted to send in my appreciation for the work you have done here. It looks great. thanks Mark Mark Dickson Executive Consultant EAS Practice m 0780 1917480 w www.xansa.com e [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you registered for the Agile Business Conference, London October 2-3 2007? Xansa supports the Eclipse Process Framework and the Open Unified Process - open source methods & tools available at www.eclipse.org/epf "Bjorn Gustafsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To re.ca> "'Eclipse Process Framework Project Sent by: Developers List'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[email protected]> clipse.org cc Subject 6 September 2007 [epf-dev] Jump-start OpenUP 13:18 MST projects with ProjectKoach - a free project management tool Please respond to Eclipse Process Framework Project Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED] org> Hi all, Congratulations to everybody involved in the development of EPF and thanks for a great software process product! GOOD Software is taking strides towards enabling our tools to support OpenUP and EPF integration, and I wanted to share with the EPF community our way of trying to bring OpenUP to software projects. We have just released ProjectKoach 2007.2, which is the first version exclusively targeted for OpenUP projects. ProjectKoach is a good fit for OpenUP projects in general and provides out-of-the-box support for the project's Work Items List and Iteration Plans. In addition, this new release also features OpenUP project templates and is bundled with an OpenUP configuration tailored with tool mentors for the management tasks, which makes "following OpenUP" straight-forward. With ProjectKoach, creating an OpenUP project is a simple matter of selecting a suitable project template. Once created, the Smart Process feature provides active context-based guidance to planning the project's iterations and tasks. There is a white paper that describes how ProjectKoach supports OpenUP in more detail at www.projectkoach.com/papers/ProjectKoachOpenUP_whitepaper.pdf ProjectKoach is absolutely *free* for unlimited use, and can be downloaded at www.projectkoach.com With Best Regards, Bjorn Gustafsson GOOD Software Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.goodsoftware.ca www.projectkoach.com tel: +1-604-948-2006 cell: +1-604-644-9051 fax: +1-604-677-5948 _______________________________________________ epf-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/epf-dev Whilst this email has been checked for all known viruses, recipients should undertake their own virus checking as Xansa will not accept any liability whatsoever. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and protected by client privilege. It is solely for the use of the intended recipient. Please delete it and notify the sender if you have received it in error. Unauthorised use is prohibited. 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