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by tuberculosis
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6/17/05 12:26:45 PM
8/21/07 12:41:36 PM
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New Re: Bug/Feature management and Project management not....
"Not to mention estimated completion dates are generally fantasies"

Not true here. The main trouble ticket system that runs everything is remedy. If you want anything you file a ticket. If you see something wrong, you file a ticket. Tickets have service level agreements and must be completed within a certain time (different priorities have different SLAs). We do use tickets to manage feature requests and it tends to make sure stuff gets done in a timely manner.

Its not good for coordinating large scale project management, but for lots of isolated items its OK.

Excel is the best tool I've found for managing projects so far. I am working on a better mac based tool for my own use though.


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Post #211,573
by ben_tilly
6/17/05 3:04:16 PM
6/17/05 4:23:00 PM
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New There is a reason that Excel is good for managing projects
[link|http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000245.html|One of the reasons that Excel is such a great product for working on software schedules is that the only thing most Excel programmers use Excel for is maintaining their software schedules!]

Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #211,580
by Another Scott
6/17/05 3:20:40 PM
6/17/05 4:59:50 PM
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     Favorite Open-source bug tracking tools? - (tonytib) - (25) - June 16, 2005, 06:53:35 PM EDT
         bugzilla? -NT - (ChrisR) - June 16, 2005, 08:00:38 PM EDT
         We're using bugzilla for a few things - (tuberculosis) - (4) - Aug. 21, 2007, 12:39:27 PM EDT
             Bug/Feature management and Project management not.... - (ChrisR) - (3) - June 16, 2005, 08:41:01 PM EDT
                 Re: Bug/Feature management and Project management not.... - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Aug. 21, 2007, 12:41:36 PM EDT
                     There is a reason that Excel is good for managing projects - (ben_tilly) - (1) - June 17, 2005, 04:23:00 PM EDT
                         ... -NT - (Another Scott) - June 17, 2005, 04:59:50 PM EDT
         I'd used Request Tracker for a while. - (static) - (9) - June 16, 2005, 09:49:29 PM EDT
             We're having that discussion at work - (drewk) - (8) - June 17, 2005, 09:39:36 AM EDT
                 ICLRPD (new thread) - (Steve Lowe) - June 17, 2005, 10:43:43 AM EDT
                 Generalization, Abstraction, Taxonomy, Perspective, Opinions - (systems) - (6) - June 20, 2005, 02:21:27 AM EDT
                     Feature requests are classified as requests to add bugs - (ChrisR) - (5) - June 20, 2005, 12:16:32 PM EDT
                         Problem is, the users know that - (drewk) - (4) - June 20, 2005, 12:35:08 PM EDT
                             Customers will call on every person in the company... - (ChrisR) - (1) - June 20, 2005, 12:45:09 PM EDT
                                 Like I do for Comcast? -NT - (folkert) - June 20, 2005, 02:18:25 PM EDT
                             That's when you hold up the spec doc. - (static) - (1) - June 20, 2005, 09:30:36 PM EDT
                                 The what doc? - (drewk) - June 20, 2005, 10:37:53 PM EDT
         Years and years ago... - (Yendor) - June 17, 2005, 10:45:47 AM EDT
         Trac is working quite well for CherryPy - (FuManChu) - (2) - June 20, 2005, 03:00:40 AM EDT
             Re: Trac is working quite well for CherryPy - (systems) - June 20, 2005, 04:50:30 AM EDT
             Working on Trac install now - (tonytib) - June 20, 2005, 11:31:42 AM EDT
         Box of Notecards - (JimWeirich) - (4) - June 21, 2005, 09:22:56 AM EDT
             3x5 rule[dz]! :-) -NT - (ChrisR) - June 21, 2005, 10:41:17 AM EDT
             That's close enough to what I do now - (tonytib) - (1) - June 21, 2005, 11:28:26 AM EDT
                 History-keeping tools: Hole punch and ring binders. HTH! :-) -NT - (CRConrad) - June 21, 2005, 03:38:20 PM EDT
             I use the 8x10s. - (folkert) - June 21, 2005, 01:22:47 PM EDT

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