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Resource Mgt ToolsResource Mgt Tools

Miguel Marquina

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Contents Contents

Project Management in short Basic Elements Qualities of a PM tool: authoring Qualities of a PM tool: browsing Considered Tools: GDPM-MSP-Xproject-PPT

Conclusions References: General, LHC

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PM in shortPM in short

where are we today/going in the endunderstand/define the goal(s) to achieve

Assess/state present situation

how do we arriveMonitor/review goals/milestones/deliverables

when do we arriveMonitor/review schedules/deadlines/delays

who is whounderstand/define roles, partnerships, contribution methods

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Basic elementsBasic elements

Planning: goals and milestones Tracking: tasks, schedules and deadlines

on deliverables Inter-relationships: roles, peers Resourcing: human/financial Communication: reviews, reports,

negotiations

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Qualities of a PM tool: Qualities of a PM tool: authoringauthoring

Maintain the inter-dependence between the different elements (PBS, OBS, WBS)

enable maintenance by different authors at different levels of ownership/responsibility

Follow-up: e.g. deadline triggers, contingency paths

Reporting: data projections according to needs

Logging/tracking, import/export

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Qualities of a PM tool: Qualities of a PM tool: browsingbrowsing

Granularity in browsing levels (PM, “office”, internal/site/external partners)

Communication/Feedback channel(s)

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Considered Tools Considered Tools

GDPM MS Project Xproject PPTOBS Maintenance yes yes yes yes

WBS Maintenance yes yes yes yes

Shared/Web Authoring - yes? (2002) yes yes

Shared/Web Browsing- yes (MPS+lic) yes yes

Import/Export yes (lim) yes (lim) yes yes

Communication Paths - - ?? Yes

Usage by ALICE - wide - -

ATLAS - Detectors US, Comp Det (14)

CMS - ?? - yes

LHCb - yes - -

Software licensing com com free free

Sofware status prod prod dev prod

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ConclusionsConclusions

Preference for “freeware” tools (enable to share across sites/labs/US+EU)

“in-house” (HEP) development may be useful (match/taylor to project needs), resourcing?

Choosing may in the end be determined by LHCexp-wide adoption

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References - GeneralReferences - General

GDPMhttp://w3.gdpm.no/prosoft/english/gdpm.asp

MS Project 2002http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/Press/2001/Dec01/12-

12ProjectUnveilingPR.asp

Xprojecthttp://atlassw1.phy.bnl.gov/Planning/usPlanning.html#sw

PPThttp://ppt.cern.ch

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References - LHCReferences - LHC

PM Usage by ALICEhttp://cern.ch/alice-project-management/tools.html

http://cern.ch/promansys/documents/ia-report-ce.doc

ATLAShttp://ppt.cern.ch/uni/ppt.home

http://cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/SOFTWARE/OO/planning/

CMSPPT (conceiled)

LHCb http://cern.ch/lhcb-comp/Support/html/LHCbProjectPlanTemplate.html