Re: Which user group are you targeting for?

sön 2002-08-18 klockan 20.28 skrev info:
> Dear Developers!

Hi!

Sorry for the late reply.

> What target group are you aiming at with MrProject?
> 
> a) Current MsProject users
> b) Users which currently do not use MsProject because their need is not met
> by MsProject because it is too complex or it does miss certain features, and
> do have a need for project management software.

I'd say we aim for both of these user groups. Doing something else would
be stupid imho. So, to sum it up, we are targeting users in need of a
great project planning tool. This also include people that need a
project planning tool for Linux (or other free platforms).

> What industry do you target at?
> 
> House-Building projects
> Software writing projects
> Event management projects
> Movie production
> Product launch project (Marketing projects)
> ...
> 
> All this different industries do have certain needs for Project management
> software
> which differ from each other.
> And to be attractive to all the different user groups, you would need to be
> feature complete, which is a huge task. It is much easier to be attractive
> to one user group first, and add one feature after the other for the other
> user groups.

Yes, I wouldn't say we are at the point where we need to make this
distinction yet. When we get to that point I would guess we would
probably aim for Software projects (and perhaps focus on developing free
software in open projects), since we have little knowledge about the
needs in those other industries you mention.

This is of course if noone steps forward and contracts CodeFactory to
add features needed for other industries.
 
> PS: I think it is just not enough to run on Linux. You should haved some
> advantage over MsProject to attract users.

What do you mean? That we should have support for other platforms or
that we have to be much better than Microsoft Project? (or both? :)

> PPS: I personally think that MrProject could be a killer application for
> professionals (within one industry after the other) which might be the 
> reason for them to switch to Linux.

Some day, some day :)

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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