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[Mounir Bsaibes <mounir.bsaibes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Jamie Bennett <jamie.bennett@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Improving our project management techniques will always be an ongoing
> process.
> Linaro, coming from the Ubuntu background, has no real formal methods for
> tracking work done, work in progress, asset utilisation, delivery and
> predicability. I would like to change that.
>
> I'd like to propose that we choose a small project to test out the theory
> that
> traditional project management tools can work with big open source
> projects.
> Given the short one-month cycles that the Infrastructure currently operate
> I
> suggest that we pilot this here. Can we select a project from the next
> stake-holder meeting outcome and work to produce valid Gantt information
> [1],
> use regular monitoring and produce feedback? I am willing to take the
> overhead
> on setting everything up, leading the monitoring effort and provide the
> analysis at the end.
>
> Specifically I'd like to do the following:
>
>  * Use OpenProj [2] to setup the initial structure.
>
   Why did you choose  OpenProj ? it does not seem  to have web interface.
    See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_project_management_software
    I think first we need figure out which tool is best to use.

 * Work with the implementor(s) to define the requirements and gather timing
>   data at the beginning or the project.
>  * Regularly monitor the project against the requirements and timing data.
>  * Regularly produce a professional report on the progress of the project.
>  * Produce a post-mortem to determine if we would like to carry this on,
> with
>   or without improvements, to a further pilot project(s).
>
> How does this sound to everyone else?
>
   Sounds very good, as long as we don't impose a lot of overhead on the
engineers.

> Regards,
> Jamie.
>
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> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantt_chart
> [2] http://openproj.org/openproj
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