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Subject: Re: Freeware Time Planning Tool?
From: Chantel Brathwaite <brathwaitec -at- castupgrade -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:30:19 -0400

Nancy,

I've used this tool (Openproj) in the past and am currently using it to track a non-work project that I'm working on. It works fairly well, but takes a bit of tweaking (not everything is always intuitive). But, then again, I haven't used project beyond basic planning, so if I had a more extensive background, it might feel more intuitive. I know that you can also import it into MS Project if you need to do that down the road, but when I've tried to do that in the past, the dates weren't retained. However, I didn't spend a lot of time with the conversion, so it is possible that there was a conflict between OpenProj settings and MS Project settings.

That being said, I'd highly recommend that you put this on your short list for evaluation. If you can get it to work, it sounds like it would meet your needs quite nicely. It also generates some nice charts that can be used for various purposes.

Chantel

On 6/17/2011 2:10 PM, Gene Kim-Eng wrote:

http://www.serena.com/products/openproj/ is an open source project planner.
It's a Java program, so it's multiplatform. You can set working days and
hours as in Project, and allocate hours by percentage, i.e., 50% of an 8
hour day is tracked as 4 hours. I don't know whether you can manually tweak
the percentages by the day in real-time, though.

Gene Kim-Eng



On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Nancy Allison<maker -at- verizon -dot- net> wrote:

I would like to be able to tell the the tool to assume a 45-hour week and
divide each day between the projects I list. So, if on April 2, 2009 I
listed two projects, the tool would assume I worked 4.5 hours on each one.
In a perfect world, the tool will give me a total for each project.

Then I would like to be able to go in and manipulate the division of hours
manually. Let's say that the two projects listed for April 2 are a long-term
project and an application note. I know that typically I put aside long-term
projects to get app notes done quickly. So I would want to assign 6.5 hours
to the app note and only 2 hours to the long-term project.

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