Does extreme programming fall into this category?
http://www.extremeprogramming.org/
I dont see "yet" how UML diagrams ect can even exist in a marketplace
like web development. Especially when most customers are visionary, and
the developers and UML people. extreme programming, allthough I dont
follow it completly, seems like th ebest planning tool for me.
Whiteboard/document --> program,
Whiteboard/document --> program,
Whiteboard/document --> program,
Whiteboard/document --> program,
Whiteboard/document --> program,
Its very hard to budget/bid on projects, but that is the art of project
management imho
Trevyn
MilesTogoe wrote:
well, everyone will likely have their own approach but I think it
breaks down into 2 categories: data driven and whiteboardish.
On the data driven there are the big players: Primavera, MS Project,
Gnome Project, yada, yada - they require a fair amount of maintenance
with formal procedures - advantage being it gives you data backed
queries / reports. There are probably a zillion "leaner" packages as
well.
On the whiteboard side: well, if you are on Windows, it's hard to beat
Visio for flowcharting, displays, etc. In fact it's the only app I
really miss on Linux (oh there's Dia, Kivio, etc but they really don't
measure up to even the pre-MS Visio). For the most flexibility, we
use Inkscape. We mockup web pages in Inkscape (my awesome tip of the
year - since it's really easy to group divs and move them around,
recolor, change fonts, etc) and just sketch up program flow diagrams
the same way we would on a whiteboard. A tablet makes this an awesome
productive experience. Advantage over a real whiteboard is that the
diagrams can just be saved, reused, emailed around - the SVG format
can be simply displayed in Firefox, Safari, and Opera (and with plugin
on dumb & dumber IE). Probably could view SVG on an iPhone as well
(that's pretty cool for communication). And of course Inkscape
drawings can be easily saved to png or pdf as well.
William Attwood wrote:
Hello Locals.
I'm an organizational creative. I like to diagram flowcharts
prior to
tackling a project, and adjust them to meet changes as they happen.
This
seems to make it so management can see the project a lot easier than
if I
was trying to explain the code workings to them.
I am wondering, what software do you use to plan projects? Microsoft
Visio for ORM/UML diagrams? Some open-source application?
I ran across LovelyCharts based in Flex, and was surprised that it
does
the linking for you and "Assumes" what you mean, allowing you to correct
that assumption if need be. Is there other software out there that
is like
this or better, saving time and making the diagramming and planning
process
easier? What do you use?
Thanks guys
--Will
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