Yunior Armando Hernandez Andrade wrote: > I think Trac should support project planning as an internal > functionality, not just an external plug-in... although all options > within the functionality should be able to be disabled in the Admin > page in case project does not require
I admit to being on the fence about this. Properly done, bits of add-in functionality are more maintainable, more approachable, lower overhead, etc. (And more easily developed by a distributed community, I think.) I think of this as the UNIX tools model vs. the 'Windows monolithic blob model. BUT, this is how Eclipse is built and I can't get Eclipse installed with the plugins I need either one at a time or from a pre-built bundle. > About that I think you are all missing some things, there are two > concepts within Project planning: > 1- Resource Planning, and > 2- Resource Tracking. > Understand "Resource" as time, workers, spendable objects (as paper, > ink, etc) and long life objects(as hammers, computers, etc)... Yes, I see that. But if you're a professional project planner working on the mission to Mars, you're not going to use Trac. There are industrical-strength tools for that. I have 5 developers on my team. We're in a larger group of a dozen engineers. We have 10-15 active projects at once. That's too big to manage intuitively but, I think, too small for all the bells and whistles of resource planning to be necessary. I would not want to give up the information I'd get from a quick-and-dirty Gantt because we are trying to develop One Module that tracks paper clips as well as hours. > Resource Planning aims to set tasks (macro-tasks at beginning, that > will most likely be composed of other tasks as the project advances), > task dependency (four dependency types), estimated task's start and > duration time, Maybe ALAP is just ingrained into my workflow and organization but to me start dates are irrelevant. I work backwards from tasks in multiple milestones trying to answer the question, "What should I be working on today?" (for myself and for my group). > ... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
