Event File System A Sample Scenario for Distributed Project Management

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Event File SystemA Sample Scenario for
Distributed Project Management
Takashi Okumura taka_at_cs.pitt.edu, Department of
Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh
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Introduction
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What is it?

• Wraps ordinary file system and extends their
  functionality to support...
• object store
• event handling
• hyper-linking
• Think of the objects as events, and apply
  project management technique!

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Motivation

• Needs for distributed project management
• voluntary open-source software development
• Internet protocol standardization process at IETF
• Workflow description
• lack of appropriate tool...on Unix!

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Who should try

• Person who is working with others over the
  network
• Professor who is collaborating with many students
• Hackers who die for freedom from MS
• ....and, member of any distributed project!

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Basic Operations
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1) Object deployment
Document Object
Wrapping information
Mailer object
Directory
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2) Relationship building
Temporal relationship
send a message at completion
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3) Attribution
Name Proposal Owner taka Begin Apr 01,
2000 Length 2 weeks
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4) PERT Calculation
Automatic updating of scheduling information
Critical path
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5) Progress Monitoring
completed
Status not started
active
Status 53 complete
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6) Hyper linking
Connected to other project
Connected to shared server
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7) Message Passing
Message to other project
Completion message
Log message
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Sample Scenario- A Distributed Software
Development
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Project framework design
Message board object
Resource manager
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Task assignment
Owner taka
Owner hato
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Task assignment, cont.
Takas home directry
Soft link
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Task assignment, cont.
Incorporated with private project
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Project structuring
Super project
Sub project
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Reusing of Project Template

• Copy the template into your project
• Then, customize!
• Yes, Object Oriented!

Meeting arrangement template
Publication project template
Recruiting procedure template
Alpha-release procedure template
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Integration with mail system

• By exporting the mail inbox to the system, task
  dispatching can be done from email

activities
result
Request mail folder
Project initiation
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Staff allocation
Taka Hato neko risu usagi
GANTT chart representation
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Group allocation
Hackers Designers Politicians
GANTT chart representation
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Resource allocation
Machine MTG Room Kitchen Bed
GANTT chart representation