[Sigia-l] Re: Project Management Software for MacOS X

[tOM Trottier]

Dear Adrian,

Depends on the project. The more players, the more need. The more 
distributed, the more need.

Project management software makes it much easier to see the effect 
of any delays or problems, to share info, to reschedule, and to 
manage the critical path.

I've found it best to break the work down into very definable parts 
with deliverables or events marking progress and never to say xx% 
done. "xx% done" is not necessarily ever quantifiable in software 
projects. 

BTW, could the moderator of this list change the "Reply to" to 
reference the List.

tOM

On 20 Jul 2005 at 20:26,
Adrian Howard <adrianh at quietstars.com> wrote:

> 
> On 20 Jul 2005, at 02:23, Listera wrote:
> 
> > Adrian Howard:
> >
> >> Index cards and a whiteboard
> >
> > Having actually designed and developed a PM app, I can say this is  
> > excellent
> > advice. It wouldn't be too far fetched to say the success of a  
> > project is
> > inversely proportional to the complexity with which its management is
> > tracked in a PM app. :-)
> 
> That's a pretty accurate summary of my experience. The right solution  
> to complex processes in project management isn't finding a complex  
> tool, it's finding a way to make those complex processes simpler.


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