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M2: Analysis of Comparable Project Planning/Management Offerings

M2 Section Summary: Post Mortem

Copyright (c) 2000 Jim Salmons and Frank Castellucci
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Associated project: Specification Writing for Web-based Project Planning Software

Project URL: http://sohodojo.com/techsig/project-planning-project.html

sXc Project detail: http://sourcexchange.com/ProjectDetail?projectID=24 (SourceXchange is out of business.)

Project coordination: Sohodojo

Sponsors: Position open

Sponsors (M1-3): Opendesk.com and Collab.Net

Core Team: Jim Salmons and Frank Castellucci

1 Introduction

This document aggregates the feature and underlying model analyses of comparable products and services in the domain of the project specification requirements. During the comparables analysis phase, nine product and service offerings were examined.

1.1 Format and Key to Abbreviations

Each of fourteen sections of the Comparables Analysis Data Capture Outline has a Section Summary file such as this one. Section 1 of each data collection form is an Introduction statement explaining the project and the assessment. Section 16 is a reviewer profile. Since all data was produced by the core project team members, section 16 does not have a summary section.

In a Section Summary file, we aggregate the analysis data within each subsection of the raw data collection forms. Each data point from the raw assessment outlines is presented in the following alphabetical order and prefixed with the following identifying abbreviations:

Note: The HTML versions of the deliverable use bullet lists with more readable prefix identifiers than the two-character source identifier used in the text versions.

The aggregated section data in each Section Summary file is the last section of the file. In addition to the aggregated data, each summary file has an optional section for the capture of summary insights or comments.

1.2 Section Summary Insights and/or Comments

====== SECTION SUMMARY DATA ======

14 Post Mortem [ All assessments, this topic ]

14.1 Analysis and Reporting

• Enact Enterprise System [ Full data ]

  None

• eProject Express [ Full data ]

  None

• FastTrack Schedule [ Full data ]

  None

• ManagePro [ Full data ]

  While its facilities are more geared to Person/User performance appraisal and development planning, these features can be used to equal advantage for collecting Team Member effectiveness and 'lessons learned; assessments, etc.

• Microsoft Project 2000 and Project Central [ Full data ]

  While the tools certainly have a plethora of devices to report on "success/failure" aspects of a project, there is no explicit feature for supporting post mortem.

• Opendesk.com [ Full data ]

  None

• SourceForge [ Full data ]

  None

• WebProject [ Full data ]

  WebProject supports the idea of post mortem analysis through continued collaboration and use of the annotation features (Project Pinboard, Project Discussion).

• X-Community [ Full data ]

  Roll your own. Not in the default conception, but could probably be supported with extensions using Workspace typing and Notecard wrappers of 'add-in' tools.

14.2 Is there an interface to a 'reputation-building' rating system for team members? If so, is there a 'disputed assessment' system to resolve conflicting opinions.

• Enact Enterprise System [ Full data ]

  Not in the default system.

  You can informally use the Task Note attribute as an issue management system. But this should not be considered at full-featured subsystem.

• eProject Express [ Full data ]

  None

• FastTrack Schedule [ Full data ]

  None

• ManagePro [ Full data ]

  Yes, definitely. As stated throughout in this assessment, ManagePro is unusual in the extent to which it provides facilities for goal-directed, performance-oriented management styles. While these features are most used in the conventional 'employment-based' context of personnel appraisal and development planning, there is no limitation in this regard. A team of peer collaborators and various stakeholders could use these features in an 'Open Book Management' model that would serve both reputation-building and applied skill development mentoring functions.

• Microsoft Project 2000 and Project Central [ Full data ]

  Functionality not defined.

• Opendesk.com [ Full data ]

  None

• SourceForge [ Full data ]

  None

• WebProject [ Full data ]

  None

• X-Community [ Full data ]

  None

14.3 Reviewer Comments

• Enact Enterprise System [ Full data ]

  None

• eProject Express [ Full data ]

  None

• FastTrack Schedule [ Full data ]

  None

• ManagePro [ Full data ]

  The appraisal and development dimensions of ManagePro are unique in this category of project/service offerings. The reputation building and mentoring needs of self-organizing and self-managing teams/projects will likely be very different than those covered by our current conceptions of 'employee appraisal' and 'personnel development'. But the areas of overlap are there, especially when we are looking an innovative product within the current offerings. ManagePro should, therefore, be on the short list of 'look more closely here for inspiration' as we wrestle with the forward-looking, learning-oriented dimensions of project management.

• Microsoft Project 2000 and Project Central [ Full data ]

  A shame, given their reputation for a project management system that this is still no-where on the product radar.

• Opendesk.com [ Full data ]

  None

• SourceForge [ Full data ]

  None

• WebProject [ Full data ]

  None

• X-Community [ Full data ]

  None

DOCUMENT HISTORY

Version 0.9 - Draft
Version 1.0 - Final

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