Project Management

Thanks to @bmann I came across a really great post from Morten Just on using the new Google Draw for wireframing, (and @chrisstrahl for reminding me to post this up to the group). He's created a bunch of templates and stencils and shared them publicly so anyone can use them. I have been trying it out for a set of wireframes I've been working on this week, and it's actually pretty good.

During DrupalCon SF, a few of us had conversations about how there's not a whole lot of project manager community, and subsequently, not a whole lot of contributing back.

To kickstart this, I've registered #drupal-pm, but nothing has really been decided about what the area's tagline should be.
It's a place for project managers in the community to gather, but beyond that, open to discussion about area rules, et al.

Go ahead and weigh in about what our next steps are for building the project manager community in Drupal.
-- amye

Hi,

I wanted to ask services/consultancy companies/freelancers as to what process they follow to estimate the amount of work before quoting number of hours to their clients. This has long baffled me and I mostly estimate on best effort basis and market value. I would like to understand the processes companies/freelancers follow to do this and if there could be a empirical way to do this. Do you guys use time sheets to monitor your and your team's efficiency? Do you find the data in time sheet useful for future estimations?

I've been asking around among friends and colleagues to find out which Project Management software people think is the best, particularly for accommodating Agile development, and have been getting a lot of mixed responses, so I thought it would be a good question to post.

Hi all, I'm looking to see what might be out there before I design this myself.

Goal: Copy and paste notes from a meeting into a node and have Drupal make nodes (tickets/cases, whatev) out of them.

Reason: Too much time is spent entering tickets into a system and teams often resort to just managing a list in a Wiki which can quickly get out of control.

Any examples/leads/insights are appreciated :) If there are not examples out there, a starting place is at least an easy syntax for when you are taking notes quickly that will convert well into tickets.

Development Seed just announced a project they're calling an intranet package that will add host of features to a Drupal site for project management and more. It'll be available to the public mid-July and the screenshots look awesome.
http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/2009/jun/17/announcing-open-atrium-o...

I was wondering if anyone here has come up with good methods for dealing with management of the Drupal config data stored in the DB along with content data. This isn't just an issue for Drupal, but this is a general problem for all CMS systems.

How do we compare the MS Project with MS Project Server.
Let me know.

See : http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=ajksfggkdk7q_2229dkjctmdf

It is like a synthese for me of various things I ve read or learned in my job during the pas three months.

I would appreciate comments, or any other links (articles, powerpoint, videos...) that you may find useful.