ganttProject



Java project management software. See http://ganttproject.sourceforge.net/

Update: June 20 I received an email from Alexandre Thomas, author of ganttProject, that said he'd try to integrate the functions I put in gan2fig.m (See http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/hodelas/LaTeX/LaTeX_tf.html .)

Update: June 25 The french government is going to support further development of ganttproject; the sofftare will remain open-source; see the main ganttProject web page.

Update Oct 1 ganttProject lacks a few features that need to be added. I hope others will join in the ganttProject effort.
Desired new features
  1. Earned value management/earned value analysis is a common means for evaluating project progress.
    1. ganttProject does not have integration with an external spreadsheet (e.g., gnumeric/excel) so that EVA can be easily performed.
    2. ganttProject does not have the ability to track cost data with each item in the WBS (e.g., include two further items: budget and funds spent so far).
    3. ganttProject does not have the ability to compare scheduled progress with actual progress. This could be done, for example, by giving each task two dates: scheduled start/finish, and actual start/finish, so that progress can be compared to planned results.
  2. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) itemization/numbering: ganttProject assigns each task an internal number, but does not permit hierarchical numbering, e.g., 1.1.2.4, or 1.A.2.D or whatever.

    idea add a flag "hierarchical task numbering" that will number tasks automatically as 1.1 -> 1.1.1, 1.1.2, etc.

  3. I'm working on the xfig export code now, so that should be added sometime soon.
Bugs I've found
  1. Copy and paste: adding task dependencies to original/copy tasks does not work correctly (on Mac OS X) unless you quit and restart ganttProject. The program adds dependencies to both tasks, not just the one selected

Update Dec 12, 2005
Many of the issues raised above are being addressed in the ganttProject 2 prereleases. Unfortunately, they appear to be dropping support of xFig output. So, I've gone back to the ganttProject sources and tried to fix them. I don't know JAVA, but it's fairly similar in structure to some C++ that I know, so I've managed to update it enough to make it marginally useful. I've put a demo in a separate file sharing entry of this blog of the xFig output (embedded into a LaTeX document) as opposed to the .png output. Updated source file is included.

Posted: Fri - June 4, 2004 at 10:52 PM           | |

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