Some thoughts on project management and documentation.
After some work now with the new company. We have got some new development projects and lots of documents to write. Designspecifications and project management is time consuming stuff.
After a couple of weeks writing documents getting more and more frustrated. WHY am i writing this in openoffice?. There is no reason for it. None at all. We will make a greater and faster progress by making it in Trac directly. Everything except the documentation will end up there anyway.
Working with Trac directly we can achieve everything. Creating the designspecification and documentation in the wiki together with other thoughts and ideas on the project. Inviting the customer on an early stage to work with us and see the progress.
We get milestones with tickets that includes stages in the designspecification. Colaborating with the documents on several stages as the developer, designer, project manager and the customer can have inputs at the same time.
Together with some modules for Trac like noanonymous so that users has to login will make a closed development area possible. Graphviz for making visual schemas directly in the wiki. And a print plugin to convert documentation to PDF books.
This way when the client can be tightly involved throught everything in the project. They will feel that the final projects is more what they asked for. And we will get development and documentation done faster.
And with some small work with scripts and templates for Trac we have a great platform both for internal usage and to host projects for other companies that has the need for a tool for their development.
But now no more work first a cup of great coffee and then more beer!. ( I do wonder why o why i have these ideas either late at night or when having a great beer.)
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