Project Management

[Edit: 2 Mar 2009] Pre-Alpha Drupal 6.x Washington version of PFT is up and running and open for Business Objects at http://projectflowandtracker.com/ Hope to see you at my DrupalCon DC presentation Thursday, March 5 at 4:15 in the Berners-Lee Room!
Details at http://awebfactory.com.ar/node/391
Session page: http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/project-flow-and-tracker-business-ob...

Online demo site

http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=ajksfggkdk7q_2007gjb85fcp

What do you think about it ? Did you find it interesting ? Any more suggestions ?

It is common to make a list of contributed modules that we are thinking to use before starting a drupal project. That is ok.

What is bad for the project (except on a small project maybe), is to install your drupal environment with all this modules at once.

Why ?
There are many reasons that can be invoked. In one word, the main reason is : Agility ! Build your project step by step. Release often and install the necessary modules only when they are needed for your next release.

Just saw this in contributions:

http://drupal.org/project/storm

STORM (SpeedTech Organization and Resource Manager) is a project management application for Drupal.

It provides the following features :

* Attributes : to manage the different list of values used in STORM, like : tasks status, countries, currencies and so on
* Organizations : the companies or individual stakeholders of your projects
* Projects : your projects. Every project can have multiple tasks hierarchically nested to build a WBS
* Tasks : the parts that compose a project

Node types:
* User (not nessessarily a node, actually)
* Project (A container for all project activity, i'd like OG)
* Milestone (basically just a date with explanation and title)
* Task (may be referrenced to a milestone and to a user. organized by taxonomy)
* Discussion (a thread, organized by taxonomy, may be referrenced to a milestone)
* Whiteboard (yay! a whiteboard to draw fancy thingies)
* Resource (the project manager can provide/set a resource (eg time or money or whatever), which the active staff can use, may be referrenced to a milestone)
file (a file)

Views:

I like Case Tracker because it is Drupal. It has some weirdities, but otherwise it's a good baseline and I've extended it pretty easily with cck and views and it's really starting to hum. So I thought it was time to share where I'm at with Case Tracker.

I tried Organic Groups integration with Case Tracker in an earlier trial (my current support site is the 4th and final attempt). I have a client node-type and I use the CCK node reference module to link projects to clients. I then have half a module worth of glue code to improve navigation and usability.

Hey there - I'm looking forward to posting the results of my current research project - resource planning software and solutions. We've grown tremendously at CivicActions over the last year or so, and despite a threatening economy, we expect to continue growing. This means managing dozens of project contributors across dozens of projects with shifting deadlines, scope, etc.. Complicating this is the fact that lots of project contributors wear or can wear multiple "hats" - a themer might also do configuration, eg. Or a PM who can do visual design.