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On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 10:33:58AM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: >One thing you might add to the implementation step is flow control as >there will be groups who depend on another to finish their work before >they can finish theirs. Making sure everyone is on the same page on >deadlines, process, cross-communication and interdependency of tasks is >key to keep bottlenecks from frustrating people who don't have a lot of >time to waste and want to keep the ball rolling. A bottleneck abatement >process is also something to consider. Hrm. Ouch. Hey, Gnat, this is technically "project management". Can you do all the hard thinking on this one? :P >As much as I despise groupware, I find MS Project to be a fantastic tool >to get 15 people all looking at the same visual picture of where their >piece of the project fits in with all the others. Perhaps there is an Open >Source equivalent that the working group chairs could all use and keep in >sync with. The Collab.net guys may have something happening over at tigris.org... I'll chat to the appropriate people. However, I have a bad feeling it might involve UML. And while I've been known to use words like "deliverables" and "pro-active", I *will not* admit to knowing what UML[0] is or does. >Nice job :) Thank you :) K. [0] typo'd as URL. Ugh. -- Kirrily Robert -- <skud@netizen.com.au> -- http://netizen.com.au/ Open Source development, consulting and solutions Level 10, 500 Collins St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Phone: +61 3 9614 0949 Fax: +61 3 9614 0948 Mobile: +61 410 664 994Thread Previous | Thread Next