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How do we use dotProject to achieve efficient project management goals in a R&D team

How do we use dotProject to achieve efficient project management goals in a R&D team. Tommy Yan ( tommy.yan@hp.com ) HP Open Source and Linux Organization. Project Manager. Share Holder. Tons of: Emails Meetings Concall Face-Face Spreadsheets.

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How do we use dotProject to achieve efficient project management goals in a R&D team

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  1. How do we use dotProject to achieve efficient project management goals in a R&D team Tommy Yan (tommy.yan@hp.com)HP Open Source and Linux Organization

  2. Project Manager Share Holder Tons of: Emails Meetings Concall Face-Face Spreadsheets Project Management Challenges(with MS project/spreadsheet) Team Member

  3. What is DotProject • An online B/S project management software • Software under GPL • Hosted under http://www.dotproject.net/ and sourceforge. • Apache, MySQL ,Php based, almost 0 admin cost. • Sourceforge Registered : 2001-02-28 • Several hundreds of Downloads/day

  4. Benefits to PMs • Know the progress well, based on task assignees’ input. • Reduce unnecessary communications

  5. Changes/Exceptions/Issues • Software1 delayed to 11/Jun/2007. LP publish date changed from 8/23 - 9/20. • Software2 release deffered. Need to know mgmt decision.  • Software3 not released yet. Will get the hot fix on Jun.6th. Need to get released agents no later than Jun. 25th.  • no Software4 plugins for rhel5 yet. Jayanth says it’ll be out about one week. Need to get released bits no later than Jul. 6th.  Publish J2ee blueprints  Deliver Redhat draft blueprint to LP team Publish CDS blueprints Deliver SuSE draft blueprint to LP team Publish Web blueprints LP team submit Redhat draft pdfs Publish MySQL blueprints Deliver Redhat draft blueprint to LP team Benefits to PMs/shareholders • Provide solid data. (Red parts of the project dashboard are based on the dotProject.) Status Progress:35.5% Start: 21/03/2007 Finish Planned:13/09/2007 Finish Current: 13/09/2007 Achievements • Delivered draft Webserver blueprints to LP team • Completed several CDS/MySQL test cases and part of CDS documents. Deliverables/status Upcoming Chkpont

  6. Benefits to PMs/shareholders(cont.) • Know the gap between estimation and reality • Know the Engineer Resource Utilization

  7. Benefits to Team members • Team members have up-to-date “Todo” list, help your memory • No conflict lock • Reduce unnecessary communications

  8. Other benefits • Importing a MS-Project xml • Tickets • Permissions

  9. Risks • Some reports not accurate/not act as expected. • Tasks dependency does not work pretty well.

  10. How was it picked out • Get a list of tools. • Google search (Top candidates among several FOSS PM tools.(just google ‘project management tool open source’)) • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_project_management_software • List the comparison criteria • Ease of use and maintenance • Expense • Functionality of spreadsheet and schedule • Multi users support • Role control • Rate and decide

  11. Try it out!: The dotProject Demo can be accessed at http://www.dotproject.net/demo/ • Questions?

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