From: HaakonME (haakon_at_nhn.no)
Date: Thu Aug 11 2005 - 11:22:36 CEST
From: HaakonME <haakon@nhn.no> Message-Id: <20050811092236.9E2882731017@einstein.suse.de> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:22:36 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [taskjuggler] Re: Milestones and tasks
Hm. Yes, I guess you could refrase it like that. I'll elaborate a bit, and then you decide:
I took a course in project management here in Norway, which focused on projects where people, organization and system need to change during the course of the project. A lot of people learn this at our most wide-spread business school. The course I took is the first part of a masters degree in project management.
The methodology we learned stressed the importance of having a high-level description of the project. This is to ensure that people from different specialities can discuss the project without understanding the details.
For project planning this consisted of a purpose description - how the project enhances the company, a project mandate - what the project is to do, and a milestone plan - a set of measurable short term goals describing a state. For project organization this high-level consists of two responsibilty maps - one for the entire project and one for each milestone. For project tracking there is the milestone report.
A low-level description must also be available. For project planning and organization there is a map of who is responsible for which activity or task, and for project tracking there is the activity responsibility map with report. The report is very simple - just a tick or Yes/No for done, remaining, are we on schedule, is quality ok, is the responsibilty map followed, changes/additions, waiting period, special problems (make a footnote).
What I would like is to be able to follow this methodology using TaskJuggler, but some pieces are missing or I don't understand how to apply them. I'm new to project management and new to project management tools.
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