Changes between Version 94 and Version 95 of ProjectManagementIdeas


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Jul 29, 2011, 2:21:41 PM (13 years ago)
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Chris Nelson
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    258258== Trac Plugins ==
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     260=== Gantt Charts ===
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    260262Trac has several Gantt chart plugins:
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    272274Pale Purple's [http://virtual-planner.palepurple.co.uk/ Virtual Planner] is an alternative visualization tool.
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     276=== Dependencies ===
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    274278MasterTicketsPlugin supports FS dependency (but calls it ''blocks'' and ''blocked by'').
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    280284The [http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TracDependencyPlugin Trac Dependency plugin] was created in August 2009 and shows promise as a more complete and flexible solution than upgrading !MasterTickets.
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     286=== Time and Scheduling ===
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    282288TimingAndEstimationPlugin 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 wants estimate and percent complete.  It is possible to extract this from either recording convention and we should likely allow either convention via a configurable interface.
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    284 TeamCalendarPlugin keeps track of user availability.
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    286 The TicketImportPlugin can import tasks exported from Microsoft Project as a CSV file.  There is a [ticket:7812 patch] to import dependencies so Microsoft Project can feed !MasterTickets.
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    288290May I draw your attention to SchedulingToolsPlugin? I was not aware of this page, but implemented some of its ideas in some kind of prototype.
    289291It currently has a scheduler, resource availability and Gantt chart in a simple fashion.
    290292I would like to enhance it, maybe we can join efforts? -- viola
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     294TeamCalendarPlugin keeps track of user availability.
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     296=== Data Exchange ===
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     298The TicketImportPlugin can import tasks exported from Microsoft Project as a CSV file.  There is a [ticket:7812 patch] to import dependencies so Microsoft Project can feed !MasterTickets.
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    292300A fact of life is that Microsoft products like Exchange and Outlook 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.