Project management

Project management tools

• (open) Redmine
• (open) Bugzilla
• (open) Phabricator
• Jira
• Trello
• Github Issues
• (open) Gitlab
• (open) 0xACAB.org (“Hexacab”)
• Asana
• Microsoft Project
• Wikis
  • (open) MediaWiki
  • (open) Dokuwiki
  • Confluence

Systems

• Gantt
• Kanban

Other stuff

• Anchoring role
• Patterns
• Being organized on behalf of unorganized people
• Unsticking the stuck things
• Parallel vs sequential execution of tasks
• Checklists
• Checklist Manifesto – Atul Gawande
  • (see also "The Checklist" - Atul Gawande, December 2007, The New Yorker)
• Project management allows offloading brainspace for other people
• Project
• Personal checklists
• “Nonviolent Communication; A language” – Michael Rosenberg
• Design world has tragic expression of unmet needs
• Is there an open source project that values project management?
• Who is the “decider”?
• It’s possible to “snow” the “facilitator”.
• How important is domain expertise to facilitate?
• Are Gantt charts dead? (No)
• Having agreed metric of success is critical (to distinquish between “is the wireframe started?” and “is the wireframe done?”
• How does the sales process fit in?
• How do legal documents fit in? (having artifacts is important)
• Van Halen M&Ms story
• How do we decentralize? still unanswered