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We have a similar need here. We have dozens of projects open at one time, and the senior managers, who oversee the project managers, want a summary on the projects for just their staff.

For example, project managers 'A', 'B', and 'C' all report to me. They each have 3 projects. I want a 'summary' view of all 9 projects, with a project status and most recent update.

Senior management is reviewing alternative software packages that are good at this level of reporting (but lousy at handling the basic issue tracking and project management that Redmine does so well)

Why not just create a 'Project Management' project, with each real project being an issue with your typical fields: priorities, start dates, due dates, progress, etc? You can create a tracker called 'Project' with its own states and workflows. Each senior manager could create an issue for the project. Thus, you could filter projects that you're in charge of, by filtering issues by 'author'. The project manager for each project would be the assignee. I fail to see how this wouldn't provide the feature and solution you want? The Gantt chart, and Issue summary view would provide a basic overview of the status of projects. You then get, for free, wikis, discussion boards, etc. for the senior management.

Hi Brian, your proposal makes certain sense. However, I see it applicable only when you just want a catalog of projects and are not interested in managing each one using Redmine's full potential.

• You can't have either a Gantt or a Wiki, or a documents section, or a repository... for each project. Everything should be shared among projects
• The permissions would be a little bit difficult to manage. Every one should have access to every project

Brian Lindahl wrote:

Why not just create a 'Project Management' project, with each real project being an issue with your typical fields: priorities, start dates, due dates, progress, etc? You can create a tracker called 'Project' with its own states and workflows. Each senior manager could create an issue for the project. Thus, you could filter projects that you're in charge of, by filtering issues by 'author'. The project manager for each project would be the assignee. I fail to see how this wouldn't provide the feature and solution you want? The Gantt chart, and Issue summary view would provide a basic overview of the status of projects. You then get, for free, wikis, discussion boards, etc. for the senior management.

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