On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Charles N Wyble <char...@knownelement.com> wrote: > Chris Louden wrote: >> >> MS Project... I have absolutely nothing nice to say about it. Having >> used it to log project testing when I worked as a software tester and >> also as a time shee log for billable hours... hate it. >> > Interesting. Can you go into more detail about specific things you > didn't like? > As stated in a previous email I don't think its very adaptive to creative work such as development. My use may have been different then others. At Bechtel we would print these out on plotters 36" high and 12-15 feet long. Hang them on the wall. its that "waterfall" thing about it. Its not designed so that everyone on a team understand the progress of the project. Its only use is for a PM to generate a report for upper management. It can’t produce a visual "status" of the project that fits on a single sheet of paper/screen for any soft dev project I have worked on.
At Plant our PMs got so fed up with process of tracking changes made by the testers they would just print out on a small book in legal size and pass it around and everyone would hand write various info. Then the PM would go back and do the entry manually. Maybe it works for some, but its been a total fail at my past two employers. Current company is construction based and it seems to work just fine. _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
