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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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There is a reason that Excel is good for managing projects
[link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/new?contentid=211551|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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