clay@uci.UUCP (News Administrator) (08/19/89)
Anybody seen any project management software (source, preferably) for UNIX? The PCs and Macs all have a bunch -- Micro Planner, MS Project, Harvard PM, etc. Seems strange that I haven't seen one in this environment. -- Clayton Haapala ...!mmm!dicome!uci!clay Unified Communications Inc. 3001 Metro Drive - Suite 500 "Revenge is better than Christmas" Bloomington, MN 55425 -- Elvira
mitchf@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Mitchel Fry) (08/22/89)
>Anybody seen any project management software (source, preferably) for UNIX? >The PCs and Macs all have a bunch -- Micro Planner, MS Project, .... There are several available; I have been evaluating Unix-Based project management systems for HP this summer, and I will post a short summery here when I complete it. For now, if you want and inexpensive, easy to use system with some limits on functionality try MasterPlan from Unipress; If you are working on large projects, need multi-user support ( record/activity level locking), X-windows support, and all of the fuctionality that you could ever need :-) take a look at TRACKSTAR from T&B computing. More Later...MITCH
hallett@shoreland.uucp (Jeff Hallett x4-6328) (08/23/89)
In article <104090003@hpcvlx.HP.COM> mitchf@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Mitchel Fry) writes: >>Anybody seen any project management software (source, preferably) for UNIX? >>The PCs and Macs all have a bunch -- Micro Planner, MS Project, .... Well, I've used MacProject II quite a bit and find it adequate for about 75% of most project work. I have not used the new version much, but know that it incorporates a lot more smarts, particularly with resources, than MacProject II 1.0. Its basic operation is for the user to define a dependency graph for the project tasks (hierarchical tasks are supported), plus resources, durations for the tasks. You can also do some noting of resource allocation (e.g. Bob can work on this 25% of his time) and even provide some measure of how effective a resource really is. You also get some rudimentary cost and task progress management and some basic smarts like resource levelling. The one thing I really would like to see is overall estimations of progress, value-added, and budgetary projections based on the other two. I am forced to use a spreadsheet to fill in that blank. (MacProject II can dump the required information to an ASCII file) It is also the cheapest, if I recall correctly, of its middle to high-end competitors. Hope this helps some. -- Jeffrey A. Hallett, PET Software Engineering GE Medical Systems, W641, PO Box 414 Milwaukee, WI 53201 (414) 548-5173 : EMAIL - hallett@positron.gemed.ge.com