If you want to print out the whole timeline... what do you do? ...
print it out on multiple pages and tape it together or do you send it to
an output shop for large paper printing?
By the time you get it back from an output shop the timeline will
probably have changed several times. My
I should have given you more information in my last post:
It's for use by a non-profit art group for managing a large and complex
yearly event. They have been doing it on paper and have basic
non-professional computer skills. (Windows based). One office manager
and several collaborators.
googling open source project management I came up with:
http://www.openworkbench.org/
And a whole slew of others. I have not used any of them.
On Feb 5, 2008, at 1:03 PM, db wrote:
I should have given you more information in my last post:
It's for use by a non-profit art group for managing
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Matthew Taylor wrote:
googling open source project management I came up with:
http://www.openworkbench.org/
And a whole slew of others. I have not used any of them.
The program I use is Gnome Planner (http://live.gnome.org/Planner) which
is apparently also available on
Thanks for trying.
I also googled and found Open workbench, dot.project and others but was
hoping someone with experience could personally recommend one that is
pretty easy to use, not too robust/ complex etc but that would cover the
basics of a single large event produced by a non-profit
Vicky,
Would you say that Gnome planner would be relatively easy for newbies to
use and cover the project planning basics of the type of project I
described?
db
Vicky Staubly wrote:
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Matthew Taylor wrote:
googling open source project management I came up with:
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, db wrote:
Would you say that Gnome planner would be relatively easy for newbies to use
and cover the project planning basics of the type of project I described?
It's very easy if you've ever used Microsoft Project. It basically lets
you create a list of tasks, assign a
Microsoft Project is a schedule and resource management program. It
focuses on things like CPM (Critical Path Method). I doubt you need that.
I think that for managing an event you really need something like a good
PIM. Something that manages to-do lists and calendars.
I read an article
Tom,
Thanks for your input.
From what you say, maybe they do need some kind of PM software... not
sure.
More details:
This non-profit group (that I belong to but don't manage), puts on a big
event (large parade) each year and the production time stretches over 5
months and involves the
The office manager has always specifically wanted to have some big
picture time line ability but hasn't known how to best do so. She
asked me because I work in IT but I have never used any such software.
Given those details, which of your previous recommendations do you think
would be the
Thanks Tom,
I was trying to get a feel for the scale of what software was
appropriate for this group's application and you answered that well.
I am a devotee of the KISS theory and it sounds like that applies in
this case.The Excel formatting technique will be useful for them too.
If you
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