Improve project management with tracking

systemJoshua Hua

csci577b

Problems• We work as individuals instead of team

• We don’t write down the task list for the team

• We don’t track the individual effort very well

• We don’t discover the dependencies between tasks early

• We don’t break down the team work and schedule individual task very well

Rationale of using trac

• http://trac.edgewall.org/

• Free and Open-source

• It’s written in python, easy to modify and deploy

• Integrate with SVN, bugzilla, eclipse, etc

• Rich plugins

Burn down chart, Backlog, etc.

• Many successful stories using trac

MythTV, Pidgin, Virtualbox

Benefits

• Define the task in detail

• Track effort by task(both estimation and actual cost)

• Define priority of task

• Assign task to some team member

• Give you a big picture of all the tasks for team and help manager to discover the dependencies and schedule the tasks for individuals very well

• Trace reversely from requirement to the code

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