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Web Based "Project Management" Using: Peter Wieland
Web Based "Project Management" Using: Peter Wieland
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What is PW_Tools?
Number of scripts to support
Project management via the WWW Automated creation and maintenance of
project web sites
Support for:
Keeping address lists (profiles)
up to date
Web statistics
PW_Tools
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Contents
Motivation & Background Basic objectives Overview & Concepts
PWA (Action lists & Profiles) PWD (Document archive) PWU (Update sites (mirror)) PWB (Bookmarks) PWE (Exploitation) PWL (Log of access) PWR (Root generator) PWC (Clean up links) PWS (Send emails automatically)
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Project constellation
10 partners with various background About 30 project members 4 countries
Portugal (3) Germany (2) Greece (2) Norway (3)
8 work entities
5 Work packages Project Steering Group (PSG) Technical Committee (TC) Telephone Conferences
Challenge:
Provide 30+ updated detailed and
dynamic information views on Project members (30) Work entities (8+) Partners (10)
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Script generates
Profiles (html)
One per project member (28) One per project partner (10) One per work entity (8) Table of contents for those 46 pages
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8 work entities
5 Work packages Project Steering Group (PSG) Technical Committee (TC)
Challenge:
Collect actions during various meetings Make actions visible to individuals Make actions visible to responsible
managers (WP, Site, PM, etc.)
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Script generates
Action information pages
One per action (currently 251 after 12 month project duration)
Action lists
One per project member (28) One per project partner (10)
Overview table
All open actions All closed actions All overdue actions All to-do actions
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Different states and responsibles for each option Input: single text file with information Generates short- and long-format html-page
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Different items
books papers proceedings etc
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Directory structure
One root directory (e.g. Web) PW_Tools as subdir of the root Bin, Input (global) One subdir for each script (PWA, PWB, etc.) All overview html-pages under this subdir One Input subdir under each script-subdir Non-overview information located in subdirs
under script-subdir (for PWA & PWD)
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Solution:
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Destination: http://research.dnv.com/marvin_int
(after mapping wwwroot on research.dnv.com to i:)
i:/marvin_int ############################### FILES PWD_search.html; actions.htm; archive.html; default.htm; deliverables.html; dissemination.html; docref.html; links.html; news.html; summary.html; partners.html; meeting_gallery.html; ################################# DIRS PW_Tools/PWA PW_Tools/PWB PW_Tools/PWD PW_Tools/PWE PW_Tools/PWR PW_Tools/PWU PW_Tools/BIN PW_Tools/Input PW_Tools/Doc Pictures
Other destinations
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+ Project related:
Save time
MoM (action) follow-up easy No paper archive required (pure Web) Information source for reporting to CEC Automatically send to-do lists to members
Project independent
(except PWD which depends on the reference system)
Not (!) mouse-oriented (drag-and-drop) Generates standard W3C HTML (4.0) Different web sites share consistent
source
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People have to use the information Not COTS Some html-knowledge (for root pages) recommended PW_Tools
Other requirements:
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