Re: Interest in project management

[David E Jones]

On Jan 10, 2007, at 10:05 AM, Al Byers wrote:

Project management was one of the topics that David listed as a possible

task at the upcoming hackathon. I am interested in that topic and am
wondering how many others are. I would like to start a thread here to

topics to comment on:

0. OVERALL GOALS - Is it to be a general project manager or an OFBiz
specific one?

capture what project management means to the community. Here are some of my

Written in OFBiz, but just like the current stuff it would be as generic as possible, but tuned for the service industry, which most of is have relevant, recent experience in.

1. DESIGN - to what extend does the app capture the design. Does it read controller.xml, services.xml, widget, etc. files? For what purpose? One thought is to do some validation of what files are there and what ones are

missing?

2. GENERATION - is there a reason to try to generate any of the structure?

I'm lost on what you mean by #1 and #2 - what would these have to do with a project management app?

3. TESTING - should the project manager be a place from which to run tests?

Again, I'm not sure what this has to do with project management. We could certainly have a place to track that deliverables have been checked and verified by those involved in the company with project oversight, and/or by the client as well.

4. TASK MANAGEMENT - should the app try to duplicate xplanner?

Well, I don't know if xplanner would be the model for this, but yes, we'd have task management just as already implemented in the WorkEffort manager.

5. TIE IN TO BILLING - should it create invoices from completed tasks?

Yes, and in fact the time tracking and adding to invoices is already implemented, though may need to be refined as the application matures.

6. VERSION CONTROL - to what extent should the project manager keep track of

versions? of the tests?


?

7. ACTIVITY DOCUMENTATION - keep a history of notes, emails, test results...

-David

This could certainly be done, and most of this is already implemented too, especially all of the communication stuff. This "project management" piece would involve handling requests, quotes, requirements, work efforts (including projects, tasks, sub- tasks, etc, etc). Ideally we'd want it to handle everything it could to make our lives easier!

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