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Gantt and Resources

Added by Michalis Miatidis about 14 years ago

A nice feature of Redmine is that it touches medium-grained levels of Software Project Management through its Gantt diagram.

Yet the dimension of their resources (i.e. human actors) has been neglected. More specifically, I think that the following features are required:

  1. Input of daily working time of each actor (e.g. 10 hours)
  2. If two issues belong to the same actor and have overlapping parts, they should be highlighted (e.g. become red). This will help the scheduler to identify the situation and resolve it.
  3. If two subsequent issues belong to the same actor and a new one also belonging to the same actor is placed in-between, their time ranges should change accordingly.
  4. Interrupt the execution of an issue and continue it some days afterward.

Have the above issues been considered by anyone else? Is there some kind of planning for anything that approaches anything similar?


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RE: Gantt and Resources - Added by Joonas Pulakka about 14 years ago

Agreed, the Gantt diagram is merely a "nice feature" now. Its capability to visualize the critical path by clearly showing

- overlapping activities by the same actor, and
- dependencies of successive issues

could and should be used. (While the suitability of a Gantt diagram for scheduling software development activities is certainly not universal, I believe it could be useful in really big projects as the "top level" for scheduling subprojects, which are then managed in more agile way internally.)

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