Hi,
We have in neogia addons repository some addons about project management
(base on existing ofbiz project-phase-task portlet done by Ant System).
Most of your requirements are cover.
These addons will be migrate in ofbizextra to be more visible and more
easy to install, but in my todo task, there are a lot of task before.
You can have a first look in fttp://demo.neogia.org/consultantb2b
Olivier
Le 04/10/2012 20:26, Ted Byers a écrit :
Hi Tom,
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Tom Burns<tramseybu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
This is a reply to a subject on the dev list posted by Nicolas Malin.
Hope no one gets too upset because I am replying here but I can't get on
dev list (it only replies to any request with "Remote host said: 552 spam
score (7.5) exceeded threshold" )
I, for one, am glad you resorted to posting it here, as the subject is of
interest to me.
Any way, Nicolas Malin asked for any thoughts about adding a comments
field to the WorkEffortSkillStandard entity which associates a work effort
with a skill.
I have a thought for another few related extensions. First, there is, to
my mind, a need for something like a track record. Let's take the task of
writing code to support transaction processing through either a gateway or
directly through a processing bank. You could have one programmer with 20
years experience, who has done it once, or another with 5 years experience
who has done it a couple dozen times. If the latter had the details of his
work stored in OFBiz (task assigned, time actually taken,&c.), then we
ought to be able to see the average time to complete the task decreasing
nonlinearly (with each instance providing a diminiishing return wrt
effectiveness at completing the task. I see this as potentially useful in
terms of identifying continuing education requirements, and in assigning
tasks to the most capable person, or the peson who needs the extra
experience the most, depending on whatever other constraints may appkly in
the situation.
Related to this, is the task of estimating the effort required to complete
a task or project. What I have seen so far (and I have been studying
OFBiz, outside normal office hours, for only a few weeks), is that in
workeffort one can enter an estimate of time required, but where that
estimate comes from appears to be just a manager's guess. Based on my
decades of experience in software engineering, such guesstimates are always
wrong and, when made by marketing types rather than coders, excessively
optimistic. What I would like is a tool that handles two things. One that
facilitates funtional requirements analysis, which of course leads to a
list of requirements, and then the second thing the tool needs to do is
take the list of requirements and produce, from the workers' track records,
an estimate of expected value of the time required for each task, along
with it's upper 95% confidence limit.
One deficiency I see in the work effort page is that there is no way to
specify that certian quantities of consumables, from inventory, are
required to complete the task (such as shingles used by a roofer, or wood,
nails and screws used by a carpenter).
Finally, I would like to be able to relate tsks that end up being required
in support of warranty service to the original work effort that proved to
be faulty, so that a statistical model can be estimated to relate need for,
and cost of, warranty service to both workers doing the work and the
supplies used, so that one can take suitable corrective action whether the
deficincy is in the skills possessed by the labourers or in the quality of
supllies provided by suppliers.
Now, the question for you is, is any of this available now, and I just
haven't found it yet, or does it all have to be developed (as I suspect -
I will have to sort out what I will need to add to deal with the
complexities involved in contrators, sub-contractors, day labourers and
employees,&c.)? Do you have any thoughts on how best to realize support
for these ideas? I still have to navigate the OFBiz code, and refresh my
memory on how Java/JSP/JSF programming is best handled (it has been a
while). But perhaps you can point me to the directories and files I will
need to examine first, and the relevant tables inthe DB.
Thanks
Ted
