Re: [Planner Dev] Resource feedback

[Alvaro del Castillo <acs barrapunto com>]

Hi Lincoln, 

It is a really interesting idea but actually I prefer a more simple and
dump approach using a web interface. We can explore the feedback
workflow using this web interface and then try to design the final
system.

http://acsblog.es/cgi-bin/planner.cgi?resource_name=%C3%81lvaro%20del%
20Castillo

Cheers

El jue, 27-04-2006 a las 05:06 +0200, Lincoln Phipps escribió:
> Alvaro ,
> 
> Was thinking about this too and wondered if a possible
> communication path would be through use of Flexible Offline
> Message Retrieval (http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0013.html )
> via Jabber.
> 
> Why not make the project a service and then have end users
> "talk" to it. When the service is offline (i.e. Planner is not
> open and live) then any user status message would be queued
> so that when the project manager came back then they would be
> able to sync the local Planner copy.
> 
> Same applies to resources getting latest project status; they
> too could get their offline messages telling them of the
> latest tasks as a message push from the Project manager via
> their jabber-aware Planner.
> 
> This also introduces the idea that Planner could have a
> live Jabber presence and have stuff updated in real-time
> via some sort of async messages. This would be way more
> fun than boring old email.
> 
> Given Imendio also happens to provide Loadmouth ...which is
> written in 'C', it could be a good mix.
> 
> Rgds,
> Lincoln.
> 
>   Alvaro del Castillo wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > First of all, the target of this email is to share some needed features
> > and ideas to implement them. I plan to find time to work on it.
> > 
> > I know we have had long discussions in the past about how the resources
> > of a project should feedback the project manager in order the schedule
> > for the project could be updated. 
> > 
> > I have been talking with a mate in the work that is working scheduling
> > projects (with MS Project for now) as me and we have started to have a
> > clear vision of a minimal implementation that we need.
> > 
> > 
> > 				     >	Resource 1
> > 
> > 
> > 				     >	Resource 2
> > 
> > 	Project Manager --> Planner
> > 				     >	Resource 3
> > 
> > 					..........
> > 					
> > 				     >	Resource n
> > 
> > 
> > The project manager once the schedule is completed wants to communicate
> > it to the resources. Currently we have the export as HTML report and it
> > is a nice way to do it, but what we really need is a individual report
> > per resource in order each resource doesn't get confused with the
> > complete and normally complex schedule of the project.
> > 
> > So the first thing we need is to improve a bit how to communicate the
> > individual schedule to the resources, maybe with a new style sheet that
> > creates a individual page per resource.
> > 
> > Once a resources has its own view of the schedule she can easily report
> > feedback about the progress on her tasks using this view. It could be
> > ideal that the per resource report include a little GUI in order the
> > resource can feedback about the completion status of the work.
> > 
> > A quick idea could be to offer the report as a HTML page, like the
> > actual HTML complete schedule report, with a button to indicate the
> > completion of a task.
> > 
> > Once a user hits the button a CGI (I think we have had a CGI in the past
> > in MrProject) could be invoked that updates the schedule in Planner
> > obtaining a lock against the planner file before modifying it.
> > 
> > Currently planner is designed as a single user application but with a
> > very basic blocking system using lock files, we can have a good
> > concurrent control system.
> > 
> > With this simple schema we start to give Planner feedback about
> > execution and I feel it will be a more useful tool for managing the
> > execution of projects.
> > 
> > Any ideas or comments will be very welcomed. I will rethink a bit all
> > the design before starting to code anything.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > 
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