CCK + Views issue tracking

My diploma thesis is about doing project management and because I need to finish before christmas, I can't use Project module unfortunately ;( Therefore, I am thinking about creating an installation profile for this...

I'm working on setting up a task system with CCK and Views at the moment... it's very early days, but what I have done so far is:

• Create a Content Type called 'Task'
• Add a text field, with radio buttons with option for 'In Progress', 'Complete', etc...
• If you want a completion date, add that too
• Create a Taxonomy group called 'Tasks'
• Add Taxonomy terms to the group you just made, e.g. 'Personal', 'Work', 'Drupal'
• Enable the group you created to be selected on content type 'Task'
• Create a new View, add filters for the taxonomy terms you want, e.g. a page for personal tasks, work tasks, all tasks
• Add a filter to show only tasks not marked as complete.
• The filters can also be exposed, to allow you to alter the view on the fly

That's as far as I have made it so far. But after that it comes down to what you want to do, you can add fields to your 'task' content type for anything you need, and filter on all of those too.

You could create a taxonomy group called 'projects' and add a taxonomy term for each project, and filter on a per profect basis then also.

I'm pretty sure, that with CCK and Views the functionality of both Project, and Project Issue Tracking could be replaced - but don't quote me on that!