I agree with you about M$ Project. IMHO, it isn't fit for anything more complicated than planning the company picnic. I used to be a programmer, but I have been in management for too many years to be useful there. I might be interested in generating a requirements document and coordinating the various activities. Dennis wrote:
I used M$ project98 about 1 year ago and found it to be a piece of totally useless sh**ware. The amount of 'features' (bugs) almost drives me crazy.
I really hope to see something on Linux with better usability. Pls get started and improve it along the way, though I am not a programmer and don't think can contribute anything on programming. : (
Just like Dia (Visio look-a-like), got to start somewhere.
Dennis/sg
You are exactly right. To be useful, it would be a complex, feature rich program. In fact, M$ Project is (IMHO) a very poor example of project management software.
Jim
Tor Sigurdsson wrote:
I'm not in for discouraging people, but gosh, you sound like a true programmer ;-) I'd take your estimate, and multiply it by at least 3.1415926595 years ;) You see, good project management software is a white-collar package, meaning it has to have much more than just basic information about the project. There are cost estimates, resource
planning,
resource distribution, heck, I don't even know all the english words that fairly describe a project management system....
Personally, I'd LOVE to see a *NIX based project management system worth
the
attention. If you know M$-Project well enough, and think you can mimic it
in
a short period of time, _PLEASE_ do so :-)
But then, my personal believe is that there would be needed some Big Corporation (TM) involved as a client/test base, and that won't happen
just
yet. ( soon tho... I hope :-)
-- Jim Sabatke SuSE 7.1 Linux Kernel - 2.4.0 http://www.execpc.com/~jsabatke It's all a matter of brain cells. You see every drink of liquor you take kills a thousand brain cells. But that doesn't much matter cause we got billions more. Now, first the sadness cells die, so you smile real big; And then the quiet cells go so you just say everything real loud for no reason at all. But that's OK because then the stupid cells go next, so everything you say is real smart. And finally come the memory cells; they's tough sons-o-bitches to kill - The Legend of Bagger Vance