Re: Feature suggestion: 2 times for "duration of task": optimistic and pessimistic

Mikael Hallendal <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.mr-project.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
tis 2002-08-20 klockan 01.08 skrev Michele Ravani:
> On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 21:33:50 +0200 info <[email protected]> wrote:

> i> When you change the project plan while implementation, you do loose
> i> oversight about
> i> what was intended originally, what resources/budget were assigned
> i> originally
> i> and who changed where and what.
> i> So it might be a good idea to have a kind of CVS integrated and be able
> i> to show at what time what changed.
> 
> Versioning, together with baselines, could be a rather powerful thing.

We where thinking of having support to save several baselines. Would
that fill the needs?

> A kind of Value at Risk could be computed, saying something like 'there is
> a 5% probability that we will overshoot by 30% in time and cost'.
> Definitely and interesting idea.

With having pessimistic, assumed and optimistic times on each task this
shouldn't be a problem to do.

Thanks for the input. I would very much appreciate if you could all add
things like this in the Bugzilla at (http://bugzilla.codefactory.se) and
mark them as "Enhancement". This way we won't loose good suggestions
within the mailing list.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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