Chair of Software Engineering Prof Dr Bertrand Meyer
Chair of Software Engineering Prof. Dr. Bertrand Meyer March 2007 – June 2007 Tools Fest: MS Project
History Extension of PERT with a “Work Breakdown Structure” (WBS) 1957 The soviets shoot Sputnik-1 into earth orbit… Invention of the “Program Evaluation and Review Technique” (PERT)… 8 The United States Department of Defense recognizes the lack of planning on their side… 5 19 195 8 Invention of the “Critical Path” Method
Basic concept Excel + nice frontend + nice wizards = MS Project 3 Software Engineering, lecture #: Topic 3
Basic concept PM activities fall into nine knowledge areas The tool integrates most of them
Project management tools http: //www. startwright. com/project 1. htm Free / Open Source Commercial Gnome Planner Microsoft Project Ø Ø Ø Ø 5 Easy to use Free/Open Source Available on Windows and Linux/Mac Several undos Work-centric by default Very limited reporting No shared ressources Limited functionality Ø Ø Ø Ø Large, many features Can save several baselines Many useful reports Shared resources Commercial lisence Windows only One undo only! Not work-centric by default Software Engineering, lecture #: Topic 5
The Demo Let’s have a look at some party organization 6 Software Engineering, lecture #: Topic 6
References • Overview on tools: http: //www. startwright. com/project 1. htm • MS Project: http: //office. microsoft. com/en-us/project/ • Gnome Planner: http: //live. gnome. org/Planner • The Project Management Institute: http: //www. pmi. org/ 7 Software Engineering, lecture #: Topic 7
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