| Tracking project progress in EPF [message #15696] |
Wed, 26 July 2006 12:55  |
Eclipse User |
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Hi,
I was wondering if there is a way to track the status of a project with
EPF. For example, I create a process and would like to know which tasks
have been completed or how much a task has been completed.
I looked through the documentation, but seems like this may not be
possible to do? My manager mentioned to me this might be a feature added
in the future to EPF, but I couldn't find it mentioned in the Vision
document.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
-Alex
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| Re: Tracking project progress in EPF [message #16811 is a reply to message #15696] |
Wed, 26 July 2006 21:48  |
| Eclipse User |
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So far we are focusing on representing the process. Enactment of the
process in projects is not (yet) in scope of EPF. However, you can export
your or EPF processes into MS Project and track your work from there.
The key work steps for you after importing into MS Project is what we call
instantiation. The OpenUP process, for example, gives you the key
activities that need to be performed throughout the iterations, but an
activity such as "Develop Component [within scope]" needs to be instantiated
for every component you develop. To do that you would probably copy that
activity (summary task in MS Project) as many times as needed and then
assign real resources to it. You also would need to instantiate your work
products (i.e. create concrete artifacts such as instances of use case or
instances of components), which is outside the scope of MS Project. A tool
like Rational Portfolio Manager, which is integrated with the Rational
Method Composer (the commercial version of EPFC; it is actually included in
the Portfolio Manager package), would allow you to manage such artifacts as
well, though.
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Thanks and best regards,
Peter Haumer.
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PETER HAUMER
IBM | Eclipse Process Framework Committer
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"Alex Lam" <alex.lam@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote in message
news:ea86tc$unr$1@utils.eclipse.org...
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there is a way to track the status of a project with
> EPF. For example, I create a process and would like to know which tasks
> have been completed or how much a task has been completed.
>
> I looked through the documentation, but seems like this may not be
> possible to do? My manager mentioned to me this might be a feature added
> in the future to EPF, but I couldn't find it mentioned in the Vision
> document.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give me.
>
> -Alex
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| Re: Tracking project progress in EPF [message #23950 is a reply to message #15696] |
Sat, 18 November 2006 15:24 |
| Eclipse User |
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Hi Alex,
There is also an eclipse based software package called xProcess from
www.Ivis.com that will do what you are looking for, but not yet directly out
of an EPF composed process. They allow you to define a simple process
(roles, artifacts, and activities) in their project management tool as part
of the iteration plan, so that you can track the project at the process
instance level.
As a general comment to this forum it might be an idea to collaborate with
ivis.com (speak to Andy Carmicheal) and allow an export of an EPF process
into the xProcess tool as you have done for MS Project.
regards
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Charles Edwards - Processwave
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"Alex Lam" <alex.lam@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote in message
news:ea86tc$unr$1@utils.eclipse.org...
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there is a way to track the status of a project with
> EPF. For example, I create a process and would like to know which tasks
> have been completed or how much a task has been completed.
>
> I looked through the documentation, but seems like this may not be
> possible to do? My manager mentioned to me this might be a feature added
> in the future to EPF, but I couldn't find it mentioned in the Vision
> document.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give me.
>
> -Alex
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| Re: Tracking project progress in EPF [message #564753 is a reply to message #15696] |
Wed, 26 July 2006 21:48 |
| Eclipse User |
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|
|
So far we are focusing on representing the process. Enactment of the
process in projects is not (yet) in scope of EPF. However, you can export
your or EPF processes into MS Project and track your work from there.
The key work steps for you after importing into MS Project is what we call
instantiation. The OpenUP process, for example, gives you the key
activities that need to be performed throughout the iterations, but an
activity such as "Develop Component [within scope]" needs to be instantiated
for every component you develop. To do that you would probably copy that
activity (summary task in MS Project) as many times as needed and then
assign real resources to it. You also would need to instantiate your work
products (i.e. create concrete artifacts such as instances of use case or
instances of components), which is outside the scope of MS Project. A tool
like Rational Portfolio Manager, which is integrated with the Rational
Method Composer (the commercial version of EPFC; it is actually included in
the Portfolio Manager package), would allow you to manage such artifacts as
well, though.
--
Thanks and best regards,
Peter Haumer.
____________________________________________________________ __
PETER HAUMER
IBM | Eclipse Process Framework Committer
____________________________________________________________ __
"Alex Lam" <alex.lam@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote in message
news:ea86tc$unr$1@utils.eclipse.org...
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there is a way to track the status of a project with
> EPF. For example, I create a process and would like to know which tasks
> have been completed or how much a task has been completed.
>
> I looked through the documentation, but seems like this may not be
> possible to do? My manager mentioned to me this might be a feature added
> in the future to EPF, but I couldn't find it mentioned in the Vision
> document.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give me.
>
> -Alex
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| Re: Tracking project progress in EPF [message #568684 is a reply to message #15696] |
Sat, 18 November 2006 15:24 |
| Eclipse User |
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Hi Alex,
There is also an eclipse based software package called xProcess from
www.Ivis.com that will do what you are looking for, but not yet directly out
of an EPF composed process. They allow you to define a simple process
(roles, artifacts, and activities) in their project management tool as part
of the iteration plan, so that you can track the project at the process
instance level.
As a general comment to this forum it might be an idea to collaborate with
ivis.com (speak to Andy Carmicheal) and allow an export of an EPF process
into the xProcess tool as you have done for MS Project.
regards
---------------------------------------------------
Charles Edwards - Processwave
--------------------------------------------------
"Alex Lam" <alex.lam@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote in message
news:ea86tc$unr$1@utils.eclipse.org...
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if there is a way to track the status of a project with
> EPF. For example, I create a process and would like to know which tasks
> have been completed or how much a task has been completed.
>
> I looked through the documentation, but seems like this may not be
> possible to do? My manager mentioned to me this might be a feature added
> in the future to EPF, but I couldn't find it mentioned in the Vision
> document.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give me.
>
> -Alex
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