Learning project management on the job?
Project management is an interesting and integral part of the work that we do at Senokian and something that is evolving on a continual and organic basis, especially since we started our ISO9001:2000 process.
Of course we use EGS/Projects to manage our process and as you’d expect it works incredibly well for us. However, we are currently doing some additions to the projects module for a client, and as EGS is released under the GPL we are able to include those into the main code base. Obviously this is a great benefit to us from a commercial sense, new functionality paid for by a client, but the other benefit that we have is that we are involved from a consultancy side in the project and are able to see how they run their [service based] projects and incorporate some of their ideas into our process where possible.
Some of the new features that are currently scheduled for the next EGS milestone that have come about from this project are:
- PDF generation of ‘Project Definition’ (a one sheet overview of a project, its deliverables, etc.)
- PDF generation of project task lists
- PDF generation of project progress report (on addition we have decided to make to our process that is not in our clients process is to email these project progress reports on a regular basis to clients)
- Time shifting of projects - allows you to build project quotes/times into EGS and then shift the whole time frame forward to the new start date
- Automatic emails on potential project/task over-runs
These are just a few of the new features that have made their way into EGS and our project management process - keep an eye on our blog and the Senokian website for news on the upcoming release of EGS and the new EGS/projects module.