Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Project Management Capability in OpenACS?

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Posted by Malte Sussdorff on
Hi Al, three of our clients as well as ourself are using the project manager in various degrees with and without workflow integration. It is currently targeted to be used by agencies and consulting companies, meaning you can run a project, see how many hours have been spend on it, integrate it with invoicing so you could write invoices out of it.

From what you are describing here are certain things that would need to be developed.

- Support for hourly rates, so logger entries could be directly transfered into the budget, which could be run through the invoicing module
- Issues Log = Tasks of Type Issue and then look at the history of all tasks in the project?
- I would probably write up the risks in a Wiki and include the Wiki portlet on the project manager overview page or someplace close to it.
- Frank is sponsoring integration of Gantt Software into OpenACS as part of P/O. Once this is done it should be straightforward to implement this for OpenACS Project Manager as well.
- Roles and Rssponsibilities already exists, though you probably need to ammend the roles to your liking.
- As for the last two, again a Wiki seems like a good strategy, though communication can happen through comments as well.

So hopefully this gives you an idea and shows that you won't necessarily have to build everything from scratch and obviously we would be interested in your work and build upon it as well as collaborate.