Re: about the Planner PERT changes review from Maurice Van Der Pot

>
> 3) The PERT functionality does not seem to work with summary tasks.
> Suppose A is a summary task, B its subtask and task A can't start
> until C has been finished. Then in the PERT chart I can see A after
> C, but B is parallel to C.
>
Yup, I forgot to mention it. The diagram works up to the first level of the
task tree. My project drained all the time I had, so I didn't implement the
summary tasks.

4) There doesn't seem to be enough room for durations in the PERT chart.
> I think it happens when a task duration is "7d 4h" or "138d".
>
Do you have some ideas to do it properly? The size of the nodes is fixed, so
I didn't see any solution except cropping.

5) Task names seem to be modified if they are too long to fit in the
> PERT chart. This modification then also shows up in the task list and in
> the Gantt chart. I think pango can render text within a limited space
> and render ellipsis when necessary, so you won't have to change the text
> itself. In fact I think that's already being done for durations like
> "7d 4h".

Oh, I wasn't aware of that. Sorry. I'm going to fix it when I have the time
(past exams and such...).


> 6) At one point I had a missing box in the PERT chart. Not sure what it
> was, but if I see it again I'll let you know.

Thanks.

7) Because the PERT chart has no easy correspondence between the boxes
> and the tasks in the list on the left, I think it would be nice to have
> some indicator for when a task is selected (different color, fat border,
> ...)

I got the idea but I somehow dropped it on the way. I'll add it too.

2009/6/17 <[email protected]>

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>   1. Re: Addition of PERT functionalities to Planner + slip line.
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> From: Maurice van der Pot <griffon26-bCGDfOjggl9Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:33:31 +0200
> Subject: Re: Addition of PERT functionalities to Planner + slip line.
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 04:56:56PM +0200, Gabriel Camby wrote:
> > I'll be glad if you tell me what you think of it.
>
> First of all, nice work! I'm sure this functionality will be useful for
> a lot of our users.
>
> Here's a couple of things I noticed during my initial review:
> 1) The patch is not well formed. It has white space issues (git apply
> complains) and has Windows line endings in it.
>
> 2) Let's call the center of the edge between the completed part of a
> task and the part that still needs to be done the "progress point".
> The slipline is a vertical line at a selected date that goes from
> selected date above the task bar to the progress point and then back to
> the selected date below the task bar.
>
> Because the slip line crosses the edges of the task bar about half-way
> between the progress point and the selected date, it looks to me like
> things are not as far behind or ahead of planning as they really are.
>
> I think that if the slipline would connect to task bar edges above and
> below the progress point, it would be clearer.
>
> Then again, maybe I'm completely wrong here and everybody is used
> to have sliplines like they are now. I'm not a project manager.
> Anyone with project management experience, please chip in =)
>
> 3) The PERT functionality does not seem to work with summary tasks.
> Suppose A is a summary task, B its subtask and task A can't start
> until C has been finished. Then in the PERT chart I can see A after
> C, but B is parallel to C.
>
> 4) There doesn't seem to be enough room for durations in the PERT chart.
> I think it happens when a task duration is "7d 4h" or "138d".
>
> 5) Task names seem to be modified if they are too long to fit in the
> PERT chart. This modification then also shows up in the task list and in
> the Gantt chart. I think pango can render text within a limited space
> and render ellipsis when necessary, so you won't have to change the text
> itself. In fact I think that's already being done for durations like
> "7d 4h".
>
> 6) At one point I had a missing box in the PERT chart. Not sure what it
> was, but if I see it again I'll let you know.
>
> 7) Because the PERT chart has no easy correspondence between the boxes
> and the tasks in the list on the left, I think it would be nice to have
> some indicator for when a task is selected (different color, fat border,
> ...)
>
>
> That's it for today.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Maurice.
>
> --
> Maurice van der Pot
>
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