Project planner

From Carls wiki

I want to make a project planner. Maybe. Let's first see if there exists something like what I want.

Contents 1 What I want 1.1 Screenshot 1.2 Features 2 What exists 2.1 Gantt 2.2 Existing programs 2.3 Concepts and discussions

What I want

Screenshot

Image:Idea-planner.png

Features

• Checkpoints (starts, stops and crossroads) which can be tied to tests or internal/external conditions
• Dependencies between checkpoints
• Ways of indicating progress within a task
• Upholding of time constraint: a dependency may never go backwards in time
• Complete history of every update ever made to the chart, easy access to previous time slices
• Laid-back naming of things, automatic color-coding
• Maybe some suggestion feature which can answer questions like "I'm late, what should I do?" or "I don't know what to do next, what should I try?"

What exists

Gantt

He's just zis guy, ya know...

• Henry Gantt
• He's got his own prize, too
• Gantt chart

Existing programs

• Project management software

Perhaps indicative that the first section of that article is "Problems with project management software".

• Microsoft Project
• Microsoft Project home page

It's Microsoft, so it must be good. Right?

• Planner, the project formerly known as Mr. Project
• Planner home page

• Gantt project home page
  • screenshots

Concepts and discussions

• Dependency
• Project network
• Work breakdown structure
• Critical path and Critical chain, oh my!
• Dependancy injection, or IoC (Inversion of Control)
• Project planning
• Extreme project management

Those were the ones I found in a shallow search. Of course, there's also the list of project management topics.

• This guy, Edward Tufte, gets a lot of things right, albeit at length.

Seems like everyone is "just this guy" today. :) — Carl 08:09, 25 May 2005 (CEST)