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From: jma@lgc.com ( John Amason)
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Subject: Re: Project Planning and Mgmt Software Wanted
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Date: 22 Sep 90 05:28:25 GMT
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In article <12035@ogicse.ogi.edu> jmeissen@ogicse.cse.ogi.edu (John Meissen) writes:
>The Oregon Advanced Computing Institute (OACIS) is looking for a project
>planning and management system with the following capabilities:
>
>1) The ability to specify "Task Work Units".  That is, we want to be able
>to specify the time it takes to perform a task in man-months, man-weeks or
>some other unit.  Then, depending on how many resources are assined to that
>task, the system should automatically adjust the duration of the task.
>MacProject II has this capability.
>
>2) The ability to specify multiple precedence relationships accross sub-
>projects.  Suppose I have a hierarchical structure in my project consisting
>of multiple levels of sub-projects and tasks.  It may be required to set
>precedence relationships between various tasks in different sub-projects.
>SunTrack has this capability.
>
>3) The ability to perform resource leveling with the constraints of the 
>available resources, including allocating the percentage of time resources
>are assigned to tasks.  Suppose I am designing a project in which there are
>a number of people constituting a given resource.  I need to have the system
>assign these resources to different tasks and possibly allocate the percentage
>of time that this resource spends on given tasks.  The object is to minimize
>the duration of the project, without exceeding the total resources allocated
>for the project.  Presumably, if the desired schedule cannot be met, more 
>resources can be allocated.
>
>Thanks for any assistance.
>Please reply via e-mail.
>
>G. William Walster,
>Research Director,
>Computation and Algorithms,
>OACIS
>fuddy@oacis.org

I am in the process of evaluating several commercial project
management  products and would also appreciate email describing PD or
commercial solutions.

John Amason
Landmark Graphics Corp.
jamason@lgc.com