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  • From: John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>
  • To: Permaculture Plant Database <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [pcplantdb] project management
  • Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:05:10 +0000

Aloha,

Also, regarding project management, would you folks like me to learn some
project management software to help us along? I'm telling you now: if you'd
like me to, I'M MORE THAN WILLING. I'd like to be as helpful as possible in
our process - so tell me *how* I can be most helpful. But if you think it's
not worth it, and we're working just fine, that's ok too.

I think the most useful/helpful thing you can do in this area is to know/learn project management methodologies and techniques in general.

I suggest applying them using a relatively simple spreadsheet-based project timeline as the software part of it.
OpenOffice can read Excel format just fine so using Excel (.xls) format would be adequately cross-platform for all of us.

I don't recall if anyone found any mature open-source project management software or not...that is available for all our different platforms (Win, linux, Mac OS X)...in any case the last thing I need is another software app to have to install and use.

Also, I am putting an issue type 'task' in the issue tracker so various types of tasks can be 'managed' or at least tracked that way.

As to spreadsheet use - time/dates/milestones left to right across the top; project element breakdown ('tasks', 'chunks', 'components', etc.) down the leftmost column; different colored/shaded and/or labeled cells and/or text notes from left to right next to each project element, to show/track a them through time and/or milestones.

My $.02...

John S.

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