Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question

2012-02-24 Thread Jason Ronallo
On Thursday, February 23, 2012, Shaun Ellis wrote: Simple todo's beat complex task management every time. https://trello.com/ We use Trello for some linear workflows, like digitization. I like the model a lot for being simple and visual. Jason

Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question

2012-02-24 Thread Rosalyn Metz
I think the first question you should ask, before thinking about tools is: *What do I mean about project management?* - Are we talking about assessing the risk and cost of a project? If so you'll need some budgeting tools and a way to determine the risk for the project. - Are we

Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question

2012-02-23 Thread Dave Caroline
Even bigger list at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_project_management_software Dave Caroline

Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question

2012-02-23 Thread Alexander Johannesen
Hiya, --What project management software are you using? Semantic MediaWiki, xSiteable --What made you choose the system? Most project management software is written by geeks, not for humans. They all propose some methodology to go with their model, but either their model is inflexible (and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question

2012-02-23 Thread Peter Weiland
Am 23.02.12 04:04, schrieb Brian McBride: Question for all the code4lib developers out there: --What project management software are you using? We're using Redmine for several projects, see http://www.redmine.org/ --What made you choose the system? easy to use (even for non-geeks), easy

Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question

2012-02-23 Thread Shaun Ellis
Simple todo's beat complex task management every time. I was checking out Backbone.js the other day and they listed a number of interesting lean Project/Task Management Apps that were built with it. I haven't tried any of these, but they seem interesting, and light: https://www.blossom.io/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question

2012-02-23 Thread Patrick Berry
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Brian McBride brian.mcbr...@utah.eduwrote: Question for all the code4lib developers out there: --What project management software are you using? We're getting into Asana. --What made you choose the system? Other departments had tried it and actually

Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question

2012-02-23 Thread Gary Thompson
At UCLA, we've been trying to get a better handle on project management, and have developed a set of practices using a suite of tools. We begin projects with a One-Pager, a project proposal or description. It includes description of the problem, proposed solution, scope, deliverables, risks,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question

2012-02-23 Thread Francis Kayiwa
On 2/23/12 11:02 AM, Gary Thompson wrote: At UCLA, we've been trying to get a better handle on project management, and have developed a set of practices using a suite of tools. This totally could be a paper on Code4lib Journal. Would be easier to bookmark it then. ;-) ./fxk -- No animal

Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question

2012-02-23 Thread Kevin S. Clarke
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Francis Kayiwa kay...@uic.edu wrote: On 2/23/12 11:02 AM, Gary Thompson wrote: At UCLA, we've been trying to get a better handle on project management, and have developed a set of practices using a suite of tools. This totally could be a paper on Code4lib

Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question

2012-02-23 Thread Tom Cramer
Gary, This is very, very interesting. Thank you for sharing this with the list. Would it be possible for you to share screenshots of your Confluence views using the metadata-report macro? We use Confluence for the same purpose, but maintain an independent list of projects in its own table.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question

2012-02-23 Thread Tom Cramer
Matt-- I have the same question for you as for Gary: could you possibly share screen shots of your Confluence templates, and the projects dashboard? Is the latter generated automatically, or through human data entry? - Tom On Feb 23, 2012, at 9:48 AM, Critchlow, Matt wrote: Hi Brian,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question

2012-02-23 Thread Gabriel Farrell
I've been influenced lately by a great talk on Project Management that Delphine Khanna gave at THATCamp a few months ago. She stressed the need for lightweight solutions to handle the more common case where we have multiple small library projects rather than one massive endeavor. The core piece of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question

2012-02-23 Thread Erin R White/FS/VCU
| www.library.vcu.edu From: Gabriel Farrell gsf...@gmail.com To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Date: 02/23/2012 04:10 PM Subject:Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question Sent by:Code for Libraries CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU I've been influenced lately by a great talk

Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question

2012-02-23 Thread Giulio Bonanome
Hi all --What project management software are you using? We are using ActiveCollab (eg. to share documents and discuss on requirements) and TRAC for development. --What made you choose the system? ActiveCollab is simple also for non technicals, it could be connected with subversion, has a lot

[CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question

2012-02-22 Thread Brian McBride
Question for all the code4lib developers out there: --What project management software are you using? --What made you choose the system? --Has the system met all of your needs? If not, where does it fail? --Overall opinions? --What systems did you evaluate and decide not to recommend? Any

Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question

2012-02-22 Thread Brad Rhoads
I'm in the process of doing an evaluation. SmartSheet is a great tool for creating gantt charts. Overall, Redmine is looking pretty good. Not much info yet, but at least the list of products might be helpful: https://doc.maflt.org/Reviews-Comparisons/Project_Management