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From: rwh@me.utoronto.ca (Russell Herman)
Subject: Re: Project Management Tools (long)
Message-ID: <89Jun2.095529edt.18573@me.utoronto.ca>
Organization: U of T Mechanical Engineering
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Date: Fri, 2 Jun 89 09:55:14 EDT

In article <1989Jun1.172742.6512@leadsv.UUCP> cberg@leadsv.UUCP (Charles R Berg)
writes:

> Others might say that for software projects, two people working together do
> not get twice as much done as one person working alone.

Futhermore, since when are skilled workers as interchangeable as cement trucks?
My ideal PM tool would permit me to express:

	Assign Jane or Jill to this task, whomever {comes available first|
	will result in earliest {task|job} completion}.  Jill's effectiveness
	on this task is 1.3 X Jane's.

It would also allow me to define a restricted set of resources for certain
tasks (e.g., a comms specialist who doubled as a general programmer when no
comms-related work was available).

Russell Herman
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