[plug] Time & Task Management Tool

[Bret Busby]

Trevor; does what you want, need to be web enabled?

Anne (my boss(!)) has just told me that she was involved in developing 
a time management thing, for her previous employer, that also created 
invoicing, based on the time sheets entered, and it included project 
tracking, and it was done in informix 4GL run on an informix SE 
database on SCO UNIX, and she says that cron events can be used to 
either print, or, email, daily to-do lists.

She can do it! How much do your bosses want to pay?

She is a Software Engineer, and does database development (for money).

Bret Busby

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On 6/1/99, 11:29:29 AM, Trevor Phillips 
<phillips at central.murdoch.edu.au> wrote regarding Re: [plug] Time & Task 
Management Tool:


> John Breen wrote:
> >
> > what exactly do you mean time & task management?  are we talking the
> > full gantt charts (we had gnatt charts at uni), or just a reasonably
> > simple interface/

> Simple and Powerful. ^_^
> "gantt" or "gnatt" ?? I don't know the specifics, coz we've never had 
to
> do this before (Uni work environments being pretty casual; it ain't 
the
> pay we work here for -_^).

> Basically there's all this talk of accountability, and so we need to
> track what we do, which means recording what we do, how long it took
> (say, to a granularity of 15 minutes), etc ...
> That way, you can look at someone's work, and see where their time is
> going.

> It makes sense from a resource management view (which is what they're
> after), and I can envisage a product to do it; but I haven't found it
> yet.

> It's also handy if such a task log can reference other data-sources
> describing the objects/resources involved.

> In summary:
>   - Task log (I did this when)
>   - Task list (This is what I have to do and time estimates)
>   - Resource data (When I did this, it was related to these resources)

> I think the product itself could be kept fairly simple, and versatile,
> and then the configuration and back-end expanded to suit a particular
> work environment.

> > I would imagine there would need to be a fairly simple database 
backend
> > (perhaps Oracle, if I ever get a copy...?), with a web server and some
> > CGI sitting on top of it.  shouldn't take _too_ long....

> My view precisely, except I'd develop with MySQL (tho the Uni is
> Oracle), and make it a FastCGI or Apache Module (Perl). ^_^

> > I'd like to look at developing something, and have been meaning to for
> > ages, but timeframe might be restrictive....

> Perhaps we could do a joint-project?? ^_^

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