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OOPM: Initial analyze: OOPM Wishes

Collections of wishes in replies to a survey on the OOPM dev mailing list in October 2005.

Wishes for the OOPM Tool

• Not a Microsoft Project clone (issue 57602)
• Gantt chart (issue 57603)
• Resource leveling (issue 57604)
• Reporting tools (issue 57605)
• Handling unpredictable and floating tasks. (issue 57606)
• Swapping dates on tasks (issue 57607)
• Personal task plan for project members (issue 57608)
• Personal calendar for project members (issue 57609)
• Cross platform (issue 57610)
• Open standard format (issue 57625)
• Integration with office suite (issue 57623)
• Flexibility in report creation (issue 57624)
• Support for database backend (issue 57626)
• Multiuser access (issue 57627)
• User specific enhancements should be handled through forms and reports creation tools (issue 57628)
• Apply the KISS principle to the product engine (issue 57629)
• Managing resources over multiple projects (issue 57630)
• Following the steps in the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) (issue 57631)
• Cost reports (issue 57632)
• Open scripting (macro programming) (issue 57633)
• Independent application (single user) (issue 57634)
• Through peer to peer networks (issue 57635)
• Client server based (issue 57636)
• PERT chart (issue 57637)
• Integration with financial accounting programs (issue 57638)
• Update task/project dates and relationships through a GUI (issue 57639)
• Global resource pool (issue 57640)
• Client/server architecture to centralize management of resources (issue 57641)
• Combine todo lists with priority and tasks (issue 57642)
• Managing communications using emails (issue 57643)
• Export in several formats (HTML, image, Microsoft Project documents) (issue 57644)
• Calendar for appointments/time planning (issue 57645)
• Create attachments to tasks (files, URL's, ...) (issue 57646)
• Data exchange with groupware for shared agendas (issue 57647)
• Financial reports (issue 57648)
• Resource utilization reports (issue 57649)
• Critical path method reports (issue 57650)
• Import of Microsoft Project files (issue 57651)
• Import of KPlato files (issue 57652)
• Import of Planner files (issue 57653)

Wishes for the OOPM project

• Establish industry-type specific (sub)committees to acquire, review, and develop requirements based on the needs of (potential) users
• Working with other project management tool projects on a creating an open standard for project management data based on XML (issue 57625 - the same as tool wish "Open standard format" above)
• Look for existing effort in other free and open project mangement tool projects (a thread has been started on the dev mailing list concerning this)
• Promoting the OOPM project

Project management tools for inspiration

See also the project tool list.

• A-plan
• Primavera P3
• Primavera Sure Trac

OOPM: Initial analyze: User Wishes

Here we will collect wishes from target users:

• Project planners
• Project managers
• Project controllers
• Project evaluators

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Updated 2005-11-10 by Claus Agerskov <cs@openoffice.org>