[Wylug-discuss] Project Management software

[Jim Jackson]

Thanks for the explanation - management (project in this case) constantly 
amazes me at obfuscating the (in this case) bleeping obvious!
Its amazing any work ever gets done. Wonder what Linus uses?[1]

Jim

[1](that's a rhetorical question - and I do know it is not an analogous 
situation, and it was just a cheap jibe. Lets just say I'm old, jaded and 
cynical, and feeling it at the moment)



On Thu, 26 May 2005, Chris Davies wrote:

> I wittered:
>> [Planner / MrProject is] where I started. Unfortunately it has no resource
>> smoothing at all.
>
>
> Jim Jackson wrote:
>> Ok I'll bite, it sounds like management bollocks, but no doubt it does 
>> mean something serious, but what? Just curious.
>
> Consider a small project, where you have three Development "bits" (B, C, D) 
> each of which is dependent on the Specification (A). All three development 
> bits are to be done by the same programmer.
>
> Looking purely at the task dependencies you would get a Gantt Chart that 
> looks a bit like this (fixed fonts):
>
> A	XXXXXXXX
> B	        XXXX
> C	        XXX
> D	        XXXXXX
>
> Unfortunately this means that the single programmer is now supposed to do all 
> three pieces of work simultaneously - you have a 300% resource allocation.
>
> Resource Smoothing is the term given to the process that adjusts the start 
> dates of each piece of work so that no resource (i.e. our programmer) is over 
> allocated. The resulting Gantt Chart might look like this:
>
> A	XXXXXXXX
> B	        XXXX
> C	            XXX
> D	               XXXXXX
>
>
> Imendio Planner aka Mr Project doesn't do this, and when you have a large 
> number of tasks and a large number of programmers it gets *very* painful to 
> have to do it manually.
>
> Regards,
> Chris
> -- 
> Chris Davies MBCS, chris.davies at bcs.org.uk, 07778 199069
>
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