Changes between Version 131 and Version 132 of ProjectManagementIdeas

Timestamp:

Sep 18, 2015, 2:36:54 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

figaro

Comment:

Added link to timing and quote specification

ProjectManagementIdeas

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 = Project management ideas
 
-Trac is strong in basic, individual and small-team task management, but lacks features for heavy-duty project management such as in [https://products.office.com/en-us/project/project-and-portfolio-management-software Microsoft Project] and [http://sourceforge.net/projects/openworkbench/ Open Workbench]. This page discusses those missing features and how they can best be realized. We don't seek to make Trac a completely general project management solution and will limit resources to people and assume they are available full time.
+Trac is strong in basic, individual and small-team task management, but lacks features for heavy-duty project management such as in [https://products.office.com/en-us/project/project-and-portfolio-management-software MS-Project] and [http://sourceforge.net/projects/openworkbench/ Open Workbench]. This page discusses those missing features and how they can best be realized. We don't seek to make Trac a completely general project management solution and will limit resources to people and assume they are available full time.
 
 In Trac, a "project" is sometimes synonymous with "installation". On this page it is a set of related tasks and deadlines. Each phase in the project would have a milestone with a target date and tickets to complete the work for that phase.
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 ||6||Assemble units||8h||2,3,4,5|| ||May 11, 2009||May 11, 2009||
 
-Microsoft Project supports many calendars in a project. Roughly speaking, the project calendar has working hours per day and working days per week (e.g., 9-5, Monday-Friday) and resource calendars can override that (e.g., Ethan is on vacation the August 15-19).
+MS-Project supports many calendars in a project. Roughly speaking, the project calendar has working hours per day and working days per week (e.g., 9-5, Monday-Friday) and resource calendars can override that (e.g., Ethan is on vacation the August 15-19).
 
 == Gantt Charts
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 === Time and Scheduling
 
-TimingAndEstimationPlugin and TracHoursPlugin add estimated and actual hours fields to tickets. There is some disagreement about whether the estimate is the remaining time (so total estimated time is actual + estimate) or total time (so remaining time is estimate - actual). A Gantt chart typically has estimate and percent complete. It is possible to extract this from either recording convention and we should allow either convention via a configurable interface.
+TimingAndEstimationPlugin and TracHoursPlugin add estimated and actual hours fields to tickets. There is some disagreement about whether the estimate is the remaining time (so total estimated time is actual + estimate) or total time (so remaining time is estimate - actual). A Gantt chart typically has estimate and percent complete. It is possible to extract this from either recording convention and we should allow either convention via a configurable interface. There is also a TimeEstimationAndQuotingSpecification.
 
 DateFieldPlugin has some helpful wrappers around custom fields to validate them as dates.
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 Trac has several Gantt chart plugins: 
 
- [wiki:TracJsGanttPlugin TracJsGantt]:: A data-driven plugin which presents ticket status in a display much like Microsoft Project's WBS format.
+ [wiki:TracJsGanttPlugin TracJsGantt]:: A data-driven plugin which presents ticket status in a display much like MS-Project's WBS format.
 
  [wiki:FlashGanttPlugin FlashGantt]:: seems complex and stale.
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 === Data Exchange
 
-The TicketImportPlugin can import tasks exported from Microsoft Project as a CSV file. There is a [ticket:7812 patch] to import dependencies, so MS-Project can feed !MasterTickets.
+The TicketImportPlugin can import tasks exported from MS-Project as a CSV file. There is a [ticket:7812 patch] to import dependencies, so MS-Project can feed !MasterTickets.
 
 Because Microsoft products are present in many environments, it would be nice if we could get availability information from Exchange to feed a project calendar. Just reading from the group calendar would probably be enough. That way users would only have to put in their vacations, etc. in one place.
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 MS-Project goes far beyond what is likely to be put into a Trac-based project management solution, but it may be helpful to consider what task properties are recorded and what their analogs may be in Trac tickets.
 
-The Microsoft Project ''Task Information'' property sheet includes:
+The MS-Project ''Task Information'' property sheet includes:
 
  * General