Some people have asked that I explain what project management software
does.
Project management software is used to track the tasks involved in managing an
ongoing project. It normally takes as its input these things:
1. the Tasks which compose a project (along with its relationship to other
tasks comprising the project;
2. the assignees (project team members assigned to complete a specific task);
3. dates for completion;
Each task may or may not have a prerequisite or corequisite task related to it.
These task relationships are tracked by the software and critical paths
and jeopardy dates are computed and made available via graphical reports
to a project manager.
Typically this software is used in large scale projects, but it can also be used
to track small scale projects.
Some project management softwares are tied to time reporting so that time series
data accumulated in a database can be used to forecast the time it takes to
complete certain tasks. This refinement is generally available in large
enterprises, but is not necessarily typical.
The Free Project Management Software Project (this is not the "official" name
yet, but it will do for the time being), will be GPL'd, and will hopefully be
accepted into the GNU offerings.
It is not my intention to make this a LINUX-only software, and we would like to
be sure that the implementation is portable with little or no modification
accross all target platforms.
There will be a specification document in the very near future, as well as
a high level design document made available. The specification document
will be provided as a mime attachment to an email reply to anyone that requests
it from me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am compiling the list of people who have expressed interest, and hopefully, we
will have our own mailing list starting some time next week.
I will then announce the list, as well as the availability of the specification
and we can go from there.
Maureen Lecuona
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org
