On 06/25/2010 12:43 PM, Chris Manly wrote:
Hi all,
I'm looking for a tool, and I haven't found it yet. It may or may not
exist, but I figure that if it does, there's a chance someone on this
list has seen it and maybe even used it.
I've recently started a new $JOB, and I am now in the fun position of
being half management/half technical. Which means I need to keep
track of and manage my own tasks and projects, but I also need to at
least track the work of 4-5 other people as well (although they are,
for the most part, senior staff and don't need very detailed tracking).
I've taken a few passes at trying to capture what I call my "radar
screen": all of the "blips" that I need to be aware of and check on
regularly. Some of these are things I need to do, some are things one
of my staff is doing and I just need to make sure it's moving along.
Some of them are things that we're waiting on someone else to do for
us before we can begin our work.
So, in a way it's task management on steroids, but in a way it isn't.
I don't expect my staff to necessarily interact with the tool I'm
using, so I'm not really looking for a group/collaborative
task/project management tool exactly. I've looked at Hiveminder,
Redmine, JIRA, RT, as well as a whole bunch of task management
applications that would run locally on my Mac. Nothing quite seems to
fit what I have in mind.
Ideally, I'd like to have something that can report on the stuff
that's been marked "done" over a period of time, so that if I'm called
to give a status report to my management I can readily have at hand
not only my own accomplishments but the group's.
I could probably bend one of the task managers or project management
suites into what I want, but they all feel a bit awkward, like I'm
trying to whittle a square peg to fit an elliptical hole.
Can anyone think of something out there that might fit the bill? I'd
be happy with web-based tools or something I can run locally on my
Mac. A local Windows-only application would be suboptimal, but I
wouldn't rule it out if it was otherwise perfect.
Thanks!
Christopher Manly
c...@cornell.edu <mailto:c...@cornell.edu>
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JIRA with the SCRUM addons sounds exactly like waht you want. The
workflow of backlog items broken into tasks is incredible- you can get
graphs and stats of what is taking up the most time, etc. It's all about
the discpline of having the workflow in place.
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