[Year 12 IPM] Gantt chart software
Roland Gesthuizen
rgesthuizen at gmail.com
Mon Jul 10 17:34:48 EST 2006
It has been a pain to organise my IPM students to schedule events down to 40
min blocks although sometimes this seems to be span of their attention and
stamina (sigh) .. I get them to simulate this by approximating one period
for one day. Seems to do the trick as the outcome only runs for a handful of
periods and I haven't asked them to consider money or allocating resources
(gulp .. have I missed someing and should be doing this?)
A colleague who works for an auditing company and uses this software doesn't
bother with partial date entries indicating that there wasn't much point in
micromanagement at this level. He loved the "Helicopter view" image that
Keith Richardson once provided .. a position where a user might lean back
with their arms outstretched to gain a perspective and feel for an entire
project.
Regards Roland
On 06/07/06, Donna Benjamin <donna at cc.com.au> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I just checked the FAQ
> http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/faq.php
>
> "Q: Is it possible to use hours as task duration?
> A: We are going to implement this feature in GanttProject 2.1"
>
> So it seems that feature is planned for the next version.
>
> As for adding costs to resources - I haven't been able to find out about
> that, so perhaps emailing the developers or dropping a note in one of
> the forums about how and why it would be a useful feature would be
> worthwhile.
>
> For details on checking out the Ganttproject mailing lists, support and
> discussion forums check out
> http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/staytuned.php
>
> - donna
>
>
> On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 08:15 +1000, Robert Minato wrote:
> > I've found the same problems.
> >
> > --
> > Robert Minato
> > Technology Leader
> > Catholic College Wodonga
> > 1 Bowman Crt
> > Wodonga 3690
> > 02 6059 1222
> >
> >
> > On 5/7/06 11:04 PM, "Geraldine McKenna" <gmckenna at ozemail.com.au>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Am I right in saying though that you can only enter full days
> > for each task and no costs for resources? For SAC kids usually
> > divide tasks into 4X20 minute blocks and it seems to me that
> > this software will not enable us to do this so may have to
> > stick to pen and paper. I tried to do Mark;s Project
> > Management task using Gantt Project the other night and found
> > these problems.
> > Geraldine McKenna
> > Avila College
> > Mt Waverley
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au
> > [mailto:ipm-bounces at edulists.com.au]On Behalf Of
> > Roland Gesthuizen
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 10:43 PM
> > To: Year 12 IPM List
> > Subject: Re: [Year 12 IPM] Gantt chart software
> >
> > A snap to install, easy to use and free to share. We
> > put it on on our school HDD image and discovered that
> > the students can even run it from their USB keys.
> > Now, that's cool. :-)
> >
> > Can I admit to playing about with it to chart our
> > last family holiday? Ow dear ... :-P
> >
> > Regards Roland
> >
> >
> > On 04/07/06, sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au <sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au
> > <mailto:sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au> > wrote:
> > I use it, it's very nice and comes with a
> > good sample file.
> >
> > Laurie
> >
> > Sam Denniston <samdenniston at iprimus.com.au>
> > on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 18:12:17 +1000 wrote:
> > > http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/
> > <http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/>
> > >
> > > Free Java Gantt chart creation software.
> > Haven't looked at it yet but looks
> > > good.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > =
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
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