Actually, I'm not sure that what you described works... not for the way I'd like to do things, anyways. Rearranging project (or task) ordering should be something I can do dynamically and immediately and the dates should be based purely on resource (i.e. people) limitations, and I don't *think* that what you described would work.
I think this page I found does a decent job of explaining some of the differences between how I'd like to schedule work (resource-constraints) and how MS Project likes to schedule work (time-constraints). http://www.openworkbench.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=42 Having said that, it looks like OWB is not actively maintained, but I'm going to take a look at it tomorrow to see. Nicholas P.S. I appreciate all of the feedback so far; no one seems to have nailed it or found the solution yet, but I've seen a lot of interesting tools because of it and gotten some interesting ideas. I suspect we'll have to roll our own to really get what I want, but I'll keep looking. On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Pete Jansson <[email protected]> wrote: > You're doing it wrong. > > OK, I keep seeing "but then it would turn into MS Project," as if > that's a bad thing. MS Project is actually good at a few things, but > you have to use it right, and almost everyone I've ever met uses it > wrong. (This suggests usability problems in MS Project, but that's > another story.) Here's how to use it right: [snip] > I've used MS Project in this way not only for scheduling, but also for > doing hotspot analysis on processes (a critical path is a critical > path, after all), and, when used this way, Project is really a pretty > spiffy modeling tool with a responsive UI. There is still plenty it > doesn't do, but I think more of the perceived problems are with how > people try to use it. > > So, stay away from the start and end dates and see if it doesn't start > making more sense. > > Pete. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
