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12/10/2006 6:31:00 AM
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Cos

Project Management Solution

I'm interested in the subproject for the PMI add-in.
I might be able to help.

What's the timeline? How the project structured (SVN, etc.)?

Please send me some details. Seems a great useful idea.

Cos
12/10/2006 5:53:56 PM
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Re: Project Management Solution

Hi Cos,

I'm glad you're interested in mojoProject.

About the timeline, we haven't defined it yet, since we are just starting the project.

I believe that it will take about 1-2 months per feature (please keep in mind that this is a gross estimative). So a good solution with 7-8 features will take a year to be released. Of course, the more people involved in the project, the faster the results will come. Based on the feedback being provided by the project management community I personally believe this is quite possible.

The first feature to be released is the Time Tracking component. We hope to have it running on the 1st quarter of 2007. Later on we'll have a Bug Tracking System, Project Document Management, Performance Reports, Project Risk Management, Template Management , and Process Modeling amongst other features. Our strategy is to prioritize the most important project management processes during the development.

About the project structure, we are using ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 with C#. We use SVN for source control. This is the same structure for both mojoPortal and mojoProject.

Personally speaking, it's been a very exciting project, since I'm learning a lot about project management and I'm using this knowledge to manage the development project. If you like project management and software development you'll learn a lot.

If you have questions or comments, feel free to send a message.

Best Regards,

Thiago Alves

Project Manager / Lead Developer

mojoProject - Project Management Solution

12/11/2006 12:08:40 AM
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Cos

Re: Project Management Solution

Great, thanks Thiago.

Is there any spec or something to start off from? Where is the repository?

Cos

12/11/2006 8:38:15 AM
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The svn repository is located here
https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/mojoportal/branches/mojoproject
and allows anonymous checkout, not much there yet except mojoPortal code and project stubs for mojoProject

Be sure and read the document here http://www.mojoportal.com/tortoisesvn.aspx about configuring TortoiseSVN to make sure line endings are compatible between windows and linux

If you get the solution to build and run in VS 2005, you can add the ProjectManagerModule.ascx using Admin>Feature Modules>Add New module Type
For the Feature Name I put mojoProject, for the Control Source you must put Modules/ProjectManagerModule.ascx
Now create a page and add this module to the page and you will see a starting point for development. The module is only the entry point to the project management application, it will have other pages as well.

I think Thiago is planning to work at first primarily with MySQL and later we will implement the other data layers. We have some Codesmith templates for generating data access code and a stubs for business classes. Once you do the checkout you'll see the folder named CodesmithTemplates

You can send files or patches to Thiago for now, once a comfort level is established working with you we can consider giving you commit access.

I'm thinking maybe I should setup a forum specifically for this project either on the project page or a sub page. What do you think Thiago?

Joe
12/12/2006 9:07:05 AM
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Re: Project Management Solution

Cos,

I have just started working on the specs (mojoProject is in early planning phase). The plan is to build a prototype for the Time Tracker while writing the specs, so we can address the development issues and have something work quickly while refining the requirements at the same time.

I have to do some spec for the Time Tracker prototype. I'll do a draft version tomorrow (Wednesday) and send to you and Joe so we can have a starting point for guiding the development and further discussions.

Did you take a look in the project files? If you're having problems accessing it please let me know.

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Joe,

I think it is a great idea to create a forum for mojoProject. The team is likely to grow and we need a channel for communication.

Thiago
12/12/2006 9:09:38 AM
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Cos

Re: Project Management Solution

Good idea to have the forum. I'll look at the specs, but I can only look at the code during the weekend.

Thanks again

 

Cos

12/12/2006 9:18:00 AM
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Forum created.

http://www.mojoportal.com/mojoprojectforums.aspx

Joe
12/15/2006 8:37:46 AM
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Re: Project Management Solution

I`ve been a little busy these days, but I'll send some specifications until Sunday.

Please check the mojoProject Forum for more information.

Thanks a lot,
Thiago
1/3/2007 11:18:22 AM
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Re: Project Management Solution

Well, two weeks later and I haven't been able to finish the specs....

I'm very busy until Jan 9, so I'll publish the unfinished mojoProject spec so we can start the discussions.

Please check the mojoProject Forums for draft version.

If you are interested in contributing, please leave a message in this thread. You can contribute with project management, revising documents, development, software engineering, design, layout or simply by suggesting features.
1/11/2007 2:36:25 AM
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Re: Project Management Solution

Well, I'm back

Please visit the mojoProject development forum for more information about the project.

Much obliged

Thiago Alves
Project Manager - mojoProject
11/20/2009 7:36:35 PM
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Has there been any progress with the Project Management module? I really like mojoportal - but have not been able to find  even a commercial project management module. Is this something that can be resurrected?

11/21/2009 12:36:50 PM
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Re: Project Management Solution

Hi,

That is something I may implement eventually as an add on product.

Several years ago there was someone who was going to build an open source project management solution, he was excited to build on top of mojoPortal because it would save him effort and he could focus right away on the feature rather than core plumbing. He wrote up a design/feature outline and I never heard from him again. I think people often get excited about starting an open source project but don't realize what a commitment of time it really takes and soon lose interest. The idea of working on it on nights and weekends doesn't go well with having a family or social life. This I think is why there are tons of abandoned projects on the various open source project hosting sites like sourceforge.

Best,

Joe

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