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PROJECT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE - AN FAQ
Pete Phillips, pete@smtl.co.uk
$Date: 1997/09/19 07:53:06 $ $Revision: 2.43 $
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Table of Contents:
1. Introduction
1.1. What version is this FAQ ?
1.2. What is this FAQ about ?
1.3. What's new in this version ?
1.4. What newsgroups discuss PM ?
1.5. What mailing lists discuss PM ?
1.6. Is there a WWW site for PM ?
1.7. What BBS's discuss PM ?
1.8. Are there any Reviews of Project Management Software ?
1.9. How can I get the latest FAQ ?
1.10. How can I contribute to the FAQ or Review file ?
2. UNIX Software
2.1. What public domain PM software is available for UNIX ?
2.1.1. XPLAN
2.1.2. XOPPS
2.1.3. WISE
2.2. Is there any commercial PM software around for UNIX ?
2.2.1. AutoPLAN II
2.2.2. COMPASS
2.2.3. IntraPlan
2.2.4. GECOMO Plus
2.2.5. MasterPlan 1.1X
2.2.6. SIZE Plus
2.2.7. ACCENT GraphicVUE
2.2.8. ACCENT GraphicVUE (Personal Edition)
2.2.9. Open Plan
2.2.10. Cobra
2.2.11. Ultra Planner
2.2.12. Islandplan
2.2.13. AMS Schedule Publisher
2.2.14. SAS/OR.
2.2.15. Project2 / SeriesX (PX)
2.2.16. PACS Project Administration and Control System
3. PC/DOS Software
3.1. What MSDOS PD/Shareware project management software is
available ?
3.1.1. Easy Project
3.1.2. Ganttman
3.1.3. Mainline
3.2. Other programs
3.3. What MSDOS commercial project management software is available
?
3.3.1. Texim Project
3.3.2. Milestones, Etc. for Windows (V5.0)
3.3.3. Milestones Simplicity for Windows
3.3.4. Project Commander
3.3.5. Microsofts Project for Windows
3.3.6. SuperProject / CA-SuperProject 3.0
3.3.7. Power Planner
4. Other Platforms
4.1. Is there any project management software for the Psion
Organiser ?
5. Training & Miscellany
5.1. Which companies provide training in Project Management in the
UK ?
5.2. Which companies provide training in Project Management in the
USA ?
5.2.1. Miscellany
5.3. What do all these weird PM terms mean ?
5.4. What Books/References are available ?
5.5. What other information is available ?
5.5.1. Magazines
5.5.2. Software Engineering Files
5.5.3. Razor
5.5.4. Tom Sawyer Software
5.5.5. Software Technology Support Center
5.6. What groups/organisations exist for project managers ?
6. Gosh - can there be anything else ?
6.1. Project Management Software from IKAR.
7. Postscript
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1. Introduction
1.1. What version is this FAQ ?
o Version: $Revision: 2.43 $
o Last-Modified: $Date: 1997/09/19 07:53:06 $
1.2. What is this FAQ about ?
This article contain the answers to some Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQ) often seen in various newsgroups on the net, regarding project
management and project management software.
It is compiled by myself, Pete Phillips (pete@smtl.co.uk), with the
help of hundreds of net.people.
Quite frequently on the net, you hear people asking the following
questions:
o Is there project-management software that runs under
X/DOS/UNIX/SunOS ?
o Is there any Public Domain project management software for XXX ?
These questions come up quite a lot. I've been collecting most
responses to project management questions since around 1991, and they
are summarised in this FAQ. In addition, I've had quite a bit of mail
asking for information on books etc on project planning. All of the
information I have so far is distilled into this FAQ and its sister
file which contains pointers to reviews of project management software
(see Question below on "Reviews").
I will use the term "PM" as shorthand for project management
throughout this file.
In addition it includes some extra information (such as a glossary) to
help those new to the field to understand some of the issues
discussed.
My background is in UNIX, and although I have access to PC's, I have
little or no interest in PM on PC's. Therefore I rely on others to
give me the PC/MSDOS info. This sometimes means that the PC/MSDOS
entries are sketchy. If you can fill in any of the gaps (for any
parts of this FAQ), then please do so.
Also, spelling is usually UK English, not USA English. Please don't
flame me for whatever mix of spelling is used - it's the information
that's important.
Finally, I get a lot of mail from people telling me that they've
looked at my WWW site for PM. I *DO NOT* make this available on the
SMTL web site, only on USENET news - if you are reading this on a web
site, it has been put there by someone else. I have no objection to
this, but I want people to know that the authoritative version of this
FAQ is the posting to the net.
If you need to mail me with info/queries, please quote the version
number of this FAQ, and the site you read it on if you read it on a
WWW site. This will allow me to update WWW site maintainers with the
latest versions of this FAQ.
This FAQ is now written in SGML and uses the linuxdoc DTD. This
enables me to convert to postscript, text and html from the one
source. However, I have not finished converting the publications
stuff yet, so that is missing for the moment. Also, I apologise that
URL's are printed twice (I haven't the time to investigate this at
present) and for any other mistackes (sic) in this document. Finally,
this document is presently still only available in news.answers as a
text file.
1.3. What's new in this version ?
o Nothing of importance ..
1.4. What newsgroups discuss PM ?
Presently, (28th Nov, 1996) no newsgroups purely to discuss PM. Also
there is very little discussion on the net about PM (unless of course
you know different).
1.5. What mailing lists discuss PM ?
I set up a mailing list in 1993 on our machine (smtl.demon.co.uk).
However, due to the fact that our machine is connected to the net via
a dialup PPP link, all access was through mail (no ftp, WWW etc). In
addition, the list was costing us a fortune each time a message was
disseminated to the 300 subscribers.
Then the mailing list was hosted by mailbase, at the University of
Newcastle. The numbers subscribed reached about 2,000 by July 1995.
However, to maintain a mailing list on mailbase you need a list
manager from a UK University, and the list manager (Nigel
Metheringham) left for another job. Luckily he found another site to
host the mail list, at The Project Management Learning Centre, at the
University of Technology, Sydney.
The new list is called pmnet.
To subscribe, send mail to Majordomo@uts.edu.au
containing the command
subscribe pmnet
To unsubscribe, send mail containing the command
unsubscribe pmnet
Other facilities are available - for information send it the command
"help".
To Post to the list, send your message to:
pmnet@uts.edu.au
You will be sent some general information when you subscribe.
The aim of the list is to discuss project management techniques
generally, not just project management software and programmes.
1.6. Is there a WWW site for PM ?
The following sites have PM related info.
o Project 2000 (PS 2000)
is a
national research and developement program within the field of
Project Management and Total Cost Management with the mission of
identifying project management needs and improving the knowledge
and implementation of project management in Norwegian industry. The
program will consolidate the PM and TCM knowledge in Norway and
further evolve cooperation with international experts in tasks
related to challenges in our industry, thereunder securing
university education adjusted to their actual needs.
Please send any questions or comments to:
halvard.kilde@protek.unit.no or post them at the project managemnt
mailing list.
(From a posting to the pm mailing list on Mon, 27 Mar 1995 by Njl
S. Sletten njaals@idt.unit.no)
o The Web Project Management Forum
. Welcom Software is now
maintaining a WorldWideWeb server site. The site includes client
stories, product announcements etc. You will be able to see screen
captures of Welcom's all new Open Plan Professional for Windows as
well as the other Welcom Software products.
Current events such as WST's US seminar schedule is available here
also.
(Chris Vandersluis chrisv@cam.org)
o HMS Software WWW site . HMS Software, the
Canadian-based publishers of TimeControl and Optic and the Canadian
distributors of Open Plan and other Welcom Software products is now
maintaining a WorldWideWeb site.
Information included on this site includes product information on
TimeControl and the Optic, white papers on a variety of generic
project management topics, client stories and course and current
events schedules for happenings at HMS. (Chris Vandersluis
chrisv@cam.org)
o Project and Program Manager's Palette . Dick
Billows rbillows@msn.com maintains this site dedicated to project
and program management. It includes Free book chapters from some of
his books, such as
PROJECT & PROGRAM MANAGEMENT by Dick Billows
AT-HOME WORKERS: Converting in-office departments to at-home jobs by
Billows and Gooden
In addition it covers Project Management Discussion Forums, training
over the Internet, and a variety of Project Management courses. It
also has "The SAGA of the Project from Hell" - the worst project
management nightmare you've ever read about and an opportunity to add
your war stories to it (disguise the names so we don't get sued)"
o Project Management Technologies, Inc. web site
This site
contains information about WISE. According to one of the authors,
it is the first WWW based project management and metrics tool
released on the WWW. Please have a look. It can be configured to
meet any organizations software process, helps in issue tracking,
dynamic metrics, maintains change data, and accessible anywhere
across the WWW.
(sudha@informix.com Sudhakar Ramakrishnan)
o Try PIM shareware
for personal information management s/w and other stuff.
o Johann J Hanekom's web site
. Johann J Hanekom
johannh@lia.co.za who was one of the early contributors of a vast
list of PC shareware PM software, has opened his own WWW site,
which makes available some of the applications he lists available
for download. It also accepts anonymous uploads, so if you find
some good PM software which is public domain or shareware, why not
upload it ?
o Project Management Institute (PMI) Internet Site
(sumbitted by
BDBG3Y0@baplaza.bell-atl.com on 16/4/96).
1.7. What BBS's discuss PM ?
o There is, apparently, a Project Management BBS being run by the
Project Management Institute (PMI) in the USA. The number is
414-961-7807 (8,n,1).
(from a net posting by bergmap@govonca.gov.on.ca Paul Bergman to
news.newusers.questions on 21/October/1993)
o There is also a BBS with a project planning section in Canada: The
National Capital Freenet (Ottawa, Canada) now has a Project
Management SIG. The host is Login as
"guest". (ag384@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (William R. Watt), Mon, 24 Jan
1994 )
Thanks to Priit Parmakson pp@cc.ttu.ee for picking this up.
o Also, a project management conference on ILink, on the FONiX
Information Systems BBS. The name of the sysop is Chris Kenward,
and the BBS details are as follows:
FONiX Info Systems _ Berkshire, UK _ +44 (0)344 306986
(johannh@lia.co.za)
o In Feb 94, I received this from Chris Vandersluis chrisv@cam.org
on the PM list:
"The HMS Software BBS can be reached at 514-333-6846 at speeds from 300baud
to 57kb. The BBS is dedicated to project management support and
information with particular support for the Welcom Software project
management systems as HMS is the Canadian distributor for WST.
Still, the general areas for generic project management is an area for
project managers and users of PM systems to network together and we make a
point of keeping the file area current with items of interest to project
managers.
No validation is required to access the system. "
1.8. Are there any Reviews of Project Management Software ?
There are a number of review files available. They may be accessed
via the web, ftp or (if you are desperate), by mail server.
I am desperate for some more decent reviews of software. Please
contribute to the reviews file by sending email to myself at
pete@smtl.co.uk.
See next section for getting the review files.
1.9. How can I get the latest FAQ ?
Both the latest version of the FAQ, the Review file, the book file and
the glossary areall available at PUT HTML LINK TO JOHANNS SITRE HERE.
They may also be obtained from the SMTL mail server (for the present):
Send mail to mail-server@smtl.co.uk with
send FILENAME
end
in the body of the message, where
FILENAME = proj-plan.reviews - for the reviews file
= proj-plan.FAQ.1 - for the FAQ file
= proj-plan.glossary - for the PM glossary
= proj-plan.books - for the PM book list from
Kurt Aerenlund Pedersen
1.10. How can I contribute to the FAQ or Review file ?
I'm glad you asked me that!
If you have any info or opinions on the FAQ or Reviews file, I'll be
glad to add them to this file. Mail them to myself (Pete Phillips) at
pete@smtl.co.uk
I can't promise to respond to all the mail I get. I will try to
acknowledge all contributions - if I forget to do this, please remind
me !
2. UNIX Software
2.1. What public domain PM software is available for UNIX ?
2.1.1. XPLAN
Mark Lacey and a tea from Michigan State University wrote a project
planning tool for their software engineering class.
It was available via anon ftp
, but in Oct 95 I
received mail from Evelyn Mitchell efm@tummy.com who informed me that
this site no longer allows anon ftp. Latest information from Jean-
Francois Rit jean-francois.rit@der.edfgdf.fr is that it is available
from ftp://ftp.agix.net/pub/programming/tools/xplan/
See under the
WISE entry in the WWW section for further information.
2.2. Is there any commercial PM software around for UNIX ?
Yes. Lots.
The following basic information (name of package, name and address of
supplier, platforms etc) is sometimes supplemented by information from
the manufacturer where this has been supplied. The information
supplied by the manufacturer is preceded by the phrase "From XXYYZZ"
(where XXYYZZ is the supplier) and the information supplied is in
quotes.
I have had comments from folks who would like some sort of comparative
table on the features of each of these. I am not in a position to do
this - does anyone think this is absolutely necessary ? My concern is
that it will be extremely difficult to produce a comprehensive
comparative table. My immediate thought is to allow each company to
send me a file describing their product which I can make available
from a server. Let me know your thoughts on this. Pete
Anyone who wants to supplement this section, please send me your
contributions so that I can keep this file up to date. Please submit
information in the following format (I am using the Linuxdoc SGML
system to format this FAQ at present).
Product Name
Company
Company Name goes here.
Address
Company address goes here.
Phone No.
Phone number goes here.
Fax No.
Fax number goes here.
Email
Email contact address goes here.
Platforms
Platforms that the software runs on.
Price
Price - please make clear currency.
Miscellaneous
Any other information
Date of entry.
Date entry last updated
Contributed by:
Contributors name and email address.
If you do not want your contribution attributed to yourself, please
state this clearly in your email.
2.2.1. AutoPLAN II
Company
Digital Tools
Address
10351, Bubb Road Cupertino, CA 95014 USA
Phone No.
(408)366-6920
Fax No.
(408)446-2140
Email
info@digit.com
Price
Contact Digital Tools
Platforms
UNIX version
Sun Sparc (running SunOS 4.1.3 or Solaris 2.3 or higher) HP
9000/700 or 800 (running HP-UX 8.05 or higher) IBM RS6000
(running AIX 3.1.5 or 4.1.2 )
UNIX Server/Windows Client version
Client
486 based PC running MS Windows 3.1/95/NT.
Server
Any one of the above UNIX platforms.
Windows version
486 based PC running MS Windows 95/NT.
Miscellaneous
AutoTEAM, a companion product for timesheets and project
tracking is available on all the above mentioned platforms.
Date of entry.
26th Feb 1996
Miscellaneous
Web site for more info.
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