Project management vs. RT

RT Users
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Hi!

We use RT extensively for tracking requests et al. Now we need just a few
additional features, namely to handle time reports, planning of
programmers’ resources; i.e. a simple but efficient project management
system. It must be web based.

The ones we have looked are MS project <microsoft.com> (hard to set up and
generally an oversized beast for us) and dotproject <dotproject.org>
(questionably maintained and does not feel perfect for us).

The dream would be something that was integrated with RT, to reduce
redundance as much as possible. A project would be a ticket or a set of
dependent tickets.

We would like

  • better overview of the “projects” (aka tickets)
  • Gantt charts of resources over time
  • developers should able to report time every day “time taken” for projects

I’d just like ask the list, how do you solve this? What are you using to
manage software development projects?

Best regards,
Palle Girgensohn
Ping Pong AB

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Palle,
I’ve been looking for a good web based project management tools also,
see my earlier thread.
You can find a good summary of open source project management tools here
http://proj.chbs.dk/ .
I would absolutely love it if someone built a project management tool on
top of RT. I feel this would compliment RT, RTFM etc… very well.
Regards,

Ian Clancy
IT Co-ordinator
Connaught Electronics Ltd.
Dunmore Rd,
Tuam,
Co. Galway,
Ireland.

P : ++353 93 23151
F : ++353 93 23110
E : mailto:clancyian@cel.ie
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Palle Girgensohn wrote:

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Ian Clancy wrote:

Palle,
I’ve been looking for a good web based project management tools also,
see my earlier thread.
You can find a good summary of open source project management tools here
http://proj.chbs.dk/ .
I would absolutely love it if someone built a project management tool on
top of RT. I feel this would compliment RT, RTFM etc… very well.
Regards,

Given that RT contains assigment, priority, and duration information,
and has a slot for holding dependencies, you should be able to
generate a “how long does it take for these people to get all this done”
from a clever database walk and liberal code-stealing from some of the
open source programs.

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Ian Clancy wrote:

Palle,
I’ve been looking for a good web based project management tools also,
see my earlier thread.
You can find a good summary of open source project management tools here
http://proj.chbs.dk/ .
I would absolutely love it if someone built a project management tool on
top of RT. I feel this would compliment RT, RTFM etc… very well.
Regards,

Given that RT contains assigment, priority, and duration information, and
has a slot for holding dependencies, you should be able to generate a
“how long does it take for these people to get all this done” from a
clever database walk and liberal code-stealing from some of the open
source programs.

Indeed. I’m not sure I have the time to do it, though. Hence I was
interested in hearing if anyone has done it already…

Seems many are in the same boat as me…

Palle