Tracy R Reed wrote:
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Now that my consulting company has been absorbed by a larger outfit and
I am in a management role with a bunch of programmers to look after and
a bunch of projects to keep moving I am thinking maybe it would be
acceptable to point my hair *just slightly* by employing some sort of
project management software. Does anyone really find this stuff useful?
FC3/Gnome comes with Imendio Planner 0.12.1 which looks to be about as
good as any other open source project management software. There seem to
be a few dead projects in this area. But this one is apparently under
active development.
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I use planner in my business to organize projects, give clients progress
reports, help create invoices and justify billable time. I haven't found
anything in the open source arena that really improves on it much. Of
course, they're all getting compared to MS Project by those not familiar
with Linux, but I couldn't afford that when I was starting out and have
no desire to switch now that I'm used to Planner. That said, I seldom
use it unless the client wants to see reports in an MS Project format.
Come to think of it, that was why I started using it in the first place.
I had a client that wnated a Gant Chart for an upgrade in their office
building. I didn't know what a Gant chart was, but I happened to stumble
into Planner via a Google search, and discovered that MrProject could do
them in RedHat 9. I've found that a couple of well-focused meetings with
the people involved, I detailed, written plan outline, and a punchlist
on a marker board can be used to the same effect, even on fairly big
projects. It kind of depends on how spread out everything is. If you're
talking about having to get the resource lists and task schedules to
more than three or four people in geographically distant places, planner
helps. It's just got that look, that office-bound management types far
removed from the job site like to see(I Think). If it's just a small
group that works in the same building, stuff like Planner is probably as
good as, but not much better than, a punch list on a marker board or a
distributed printout of a task schedule. Your mileage may vary.
Robert Donovan
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