collection of possible target groups and feature list

Dear MrProject enthusiasts!

As I offered my help to this list for managing a feature list for the
development
of MrProject and my help was accepted I want to start with a request of
help.

I will collect all information I get from you and condense it into a list
with reasoning.
If you know people working as project managers or use project management
tools,
please ask them to answer (some of) the questions below. It might result for
them in a
free good project management software designed for their needs.

If you have some good questions, please tell me:

Here are my questions (and my own answers):

First I want to focus on possible target groups.
So please tell me what target groups you know of.

Thanx for your help

Edmund Humenberger


Target group list:
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What type of projects do have use for and do profit from
project-management-software:

a) government for their major acquisition/development projects/programs
b) large Engineering/Construction companies
c) event management (Sport events, fares, PR events, conferences...)
d) big house building, factory building projects or construction projects
e) EU funded Software development projects (also Open Source)
f) product design projects (e.g. design a car or video recorder)
g) founding of a company (not much need for now)
h) release of a product in a new market (Marketing plan)
i) movie production
j) research project?
k) space mission programms (not a big user group)
l) ??
m) ??
n) ??


List of absolutely required features for what target group:
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multiuser design (a, )
strong resource management and cost management capabilities (a,e)
central data-repository-deamon (Database) to be able to interface with other
data sources
CPM (Critical Path Method)
plan<->reality comparison
possible permanent change of plan with change documentation
...
...

Questions:
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What kind of project do you manage? Please describe a little bit.



What Project management tool do you use currently?  (paper qualifies as tool
too!)



What data do you enter in your PM tool? How and when do you enter it?



What for and how are you using your PM tool?
(What infos are you trying to get from your PM tool?)




Who gets what PM information from you in what form?




Do you change your plan while project is going on?




What features do you find most usefull from your PM Tool?




What functions in your PM tool do you use most of the time.




What functions of you current PM tool would you need
at least in a new PM tool to be as productive with the new tool
as you are with your current tool?





What do you find most annoying when using your PM tool?
What aspect of your PM tools would you like to have improved.



What feature would you ask us to implement
so that you can be much more productive?



How much more productive/cost effective would this make you
(your organisation) compared to now?



Could you give us a typical PM File of yourself?



thanx for your help