Assigned the task to myself 

I would like to add a suggestion to
http://oopm.openoffice.org/initial_analyze/wishes.html

Hierarchical sub-tasks

I think that it should be possible to plan each task of a plan as though it were
a project in its own right.  For example, a new industrial control system would
have as component tasks the design of PCBs for IO, user interaction,
interconnection.  But the developement of each PCB is a project with resources,
milestones, tasks and procedures.  This would require a plan of the same form.

The resource pool should, of course, be inherited from the master project. 
Resource levelling and conflicts would have to be followed recursively

I would like to add a suggestion to
http://oopm.openoffice.org/initial_analyze/wishes.html

Document management and control

The creation of tasks in a plan frequently implies or requires a raft of
associated documents:  A functional spec is required to define design
sub-components, each component needs a design spec before starting and test spec
at the end, and integration tests are implied by merging sub-components back
into the final path.

I think that a project planning tool that allows documents to be archived and
accessed would be very useful.

Regards sub-projects -- absolutely.

More technically, a task should either be a node in a directed graph or a itself
be a directed graph.

I would like to add a suggestion to
http://oopm.openoffice.org/initial_analyze/wishes.html

Email updating of progress

It should be possible to record progress on a task (hours spent, milestones
achieved, completion or delay insertion) by email to the planning server.  This
would allow simple unix scripts to update tasks by name or reference in an
automatic manner from other accounting, time keeping, or project recording systems.

Email query of status

It should be possible to send a simple query to the planning server by email
requesting the latest status on a task, sub-task, or other progress metric.

please also have a look at IZ 60554

Hello.  I saw your oopm project and I am interested in it.  I searched through 
your issues archive for the words Earned Value and EVM.  I didn't find 
anything so I would like to suggest that this project include Earned Value 
calculations.  The organization I work for is very big on EVM as a way to 
control projects.

Thanks a lot.

Lee Farquharson
lfarquharson@gmail.com

I'd like to suggest supporting project management using the Theory Of
Constraints (TOC), and it's "Critical Chain".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Chain

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Additional wishes

I think a good PM tool should provide, furthen than classical Gantt charts etc 
following features:
- to link external or embedded documents to each task;
- to link resources to the system Address Book (for example Thunderbird);
- to edit organization charts;
- to set alarms/reminders/check-point for any task;
- to submit/evaluate and then approve/reject planning revisions;
- to version/baseline the project status.

Can an OooPM tool have a more 'intuitive' user interface i.e. graphic point & 
click rather than the rigorous table driven interfaces.  A user simple 
interface would enable the tool to be used by various PM skill levels making 
the tool more useful in more scenarios - home, hobby, business, creative 
community projects... and more usable as a tool to collabortively & 
interactively develop project plans with a creative team.

During the next couple of days I will create new issues with the wishes you all
have written to this issue.

Thank you.

Claus Agerskov, co-lead/owner, OOPM subproject

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