Whenever I needed something like this, I always went for Taskjuggler ( https://taskjuggler.org/ ). It definitely has quite a steep learning curve but it's very powerful. That said, I am most definitely not a professional project manager (or even a decent amateur one).
The fact that it had no GUI and you express all the data and constraints in a DSL appealed to my way of thinking. On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, 17:17 Terry Coles, <d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk> wrote: > On Friday, 26 March 2021 15:58:41 GMT Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: > > I just found some cool cross-platform and excellent Gantt chart > > software, which you can find at: > > Being an ex Project Manager I couldn't resist downloading this. It seems > to > work and it's pretty easy to use, but I wouldn't want to try to manage a > big > project with it. > > Things I would seriously miss are: > > * The ability to enter Task Durations in hours and not just days. > * The ability to give resources a Work Calendar so that their availability > is > defined across the project and not just for 'days off'. (By this I mean > how > many hours per week they work.) > * The ability to allocate a resource to a Task based on the above work > calendar. > > I'm sure there are lots of other things that maybe other PMs would like to > see > but the above matches my workflow which was: > > * Estimate each activity in hours and then enter the task duration in > hours. > * Allocate the Resources. > * The tool then sets the elapsed time in days. weeks or months based on > the > Resource Calendars. > > The tool therefore provides a prediction of the end date that takes into > account the availability of all the resources as well as the work required. > > Picky I know, but my Projects were not noted for overrunning. (I did get > a > 'talking to' once for coming in early. :-) ) > > I know I could pay my $5 and ask for the above, but I no longer have a > real > need for a Project Management Tool. > > -- > > > > Terry Coles > > > > -- > Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-04-06 20:00 > Check to whom you are replying > Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk > New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk > -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-04-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
