Archive for the ‘Scheduling’ Category

Project Managers are like Walruses

We care deeply about our buckets! A friend of mine who works as doing software QA told me once that if he charges to the wrong time code he typically has four or more people yell at him. For Developers, I understand just how annoying it is to remember the many different bill codes that [...]

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Simple Gantt Charts with Tom’s Planner

One of the biggest issues with Basecamp (the simple-to-use, web-based project-management solution sold by 37Signals) is that it doesn’t do Gantt charts. This means resource leveling, scheduling, baselining are all next to impossible. You set due-dates for to-do items and milestones, and sort of hope for the best. So when I saw Tom’s Planner, I [...]

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