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Re: Manage project documents with docbook
- From: "Nancy (Paisner) Harrison" <nancyh at rational dot com>
- To: Eric dot Belpaire at equant dot com, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:21:03 -0500
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Manage project documents with docbook
Hi,
I can think of a number of information types (e.g. 'effort' defined in
hours/days/weeks to do a task) that would be needed in a project mgmt or
requirements mgmt DTD, which would be out of place in the kind of technical
document that DocBook was designed for. I can also think of lots of
elements they would have in common, and lots of DocBook that (IMHO) would
be completely irrelevant to project management
The first step would be to analyze the subject area and come up with the
information types you'd need. If your goal is easy tranferral of data
between the project management space and the technical document space, you
need to know what you need for each, and then see where the overlaps and
uniqueness lie. The analysis for 'what you need' has already been done in
the tech doc space, and the result is DocBook. It sounds from your
question that the analysis hasn't been done in the project mgmt space, but
since I've heard from various sources the idea that project mgmt data needs
to be stored in XML, it presumably needs to be done. Only once it's been
done can you start looking at where information can be reused across spaces.
A thought, are any of the OASIS TCs working on this area? [There are so
many of them that anything seems possible...]
Nancy
At 06:15 PM 3/21/2002 +0100, Eric.Belpaire@equant.com wrote:
>Ian, Mart, Murray,
>
>thanks for your feedback.
>
>Ian suggested to use a database to handle the information chunks related to
>the intermediate deliverables of a project. Mart suggested CVS, which is
>indeed useful for managing versions of documents. Murray was the closest to
>my original question.
>
>I'll have to sketch what I have in mind and perhaps come back with a
>prototype.
>Cordially,
>Eric
>
>Murray wrote:
>I'm not aware of any DocBook DTDs or stylesheets that are geared at
>project management, status reports, tracking deliverables, etc.. (I'm
>thinking Microsoft Project here). I think the FreeBSD Project would
>be very interested in stuff like that. Currently we maintain a lot of
>little project management web sites about upcoming release schedules,
>release checklists, project status pages (SMPng, etc..), and these
>little pages are less than ideal.
>
> - Murray
>
>On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 12:55, Eric.Belpaire@equant.com wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > has there been attempts to manage project related documents with docbook?
> > I'm looking to manage trees of deliverables (possibly with associated
> > action lists). This tree of deliverables is similar to a work breakdown
> > structure (WBS) with for each one an owner, time estimate, required
>inputs,
> > etc... It needs to be displayed in graphical form and in tabular form
> > during the planning and execution phases.
> >
> > I would be grateful for any suggestions, links, hints.
> > Cordially,
> > Eric
> >
> > Eric BELPAIRE
> > France Transformation Project
> > CS&N - Global Quality Program
> > Tel. +33 146 41 12 94 (CVS 220 1294)
> > mailto: Eric.Belpaire@equant.com
> >
> > "It is up to us to journey forth in search of new practices and new ideas
> > that will enable us to create lives and organizations worthy of human
> > habitation." Margaret Wheatley
>
>
>
>Eric BELPAIRE
>France Transformation Project
>CS&N - Global Quality Program
>Tel. +33 146 41 12 94 (CVS 220 1294)
>mailto: Eric.Belpaire@equant.com
>
>"C'est à nous de tenir le cap à la recherche de pratiques et d'idées
>nouvelles qui nous permettront de créer des vies et des organisations
>dignes d'être vécues et habitées par l'homme."
>"It is up to us to journey forth in search of new practices and new ideas
>that will enable us to create lives and organizations worthy of human
>habitation." Margaret Wheatley
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Nancy (Paisner) Harrison
Rational Software
Lexington MA
nancyh@rational.com