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Hello, I work for a small company that makes scheduling software. So
far, we've
focused on extending the enterprise project management systems
typically used
in large industry, like Primavera and PSS.
However, we're pondering making a version of our software that
interfaces with
Microsoft Project. Since we're a small company, I, a programmer, am
doing some
informal market research
.
So my question for you guys is: would you be interested in any of the
following?
(1) A better leveler. We have leveling technology which significantly
outperforms the built-in MSP leveler. You can see a comparison with
the
Primavera leveler (roughly equivalent to the MSP leveler) here:
http://www.otsys.com/psop.htm
(2) An entirely new form of resource leveling that reduces total
project cost,
instead of just resource overload. (How? It also looks at resource
*under*-utilization and minimizes staffing level fluctuation.) More
here:
http://www.otsys.com/case_study
(3) More powerful schedule visualization tools. With our tools, you
can graph
the project resource usage summed over an arbitrary collection of
resources. You
can dynamically zoom in on the graph. You can drag to select a date
range to
get a list of all the tasks working in that date range. You can use
live-search
to filter the list of tasks dynamically, and see only the resource
usage of the
remaining tasks.
We also have a new kind of plot that colors resource usage by total
slack,
allowing you to quickly see which parts of your project are critical.
Here's an
example (from the case study link above):
http://www.otsys.com/images/figure_2_large.png
The green shows work that has 30 more 8-hour working days of slack,
the yellow
shows work that can only slip a little, and the red shows work that
can't slip
at all.
So, does any of this look interesting? If so, let me know!
Thanks for your time,
Erin Keenan
On Time Systems, Inc.
http://www.otsys.com/
far, we've
focused on extending the enterprise project management systems
typically used
in large industry, like Primavera and PSS.
However, we're pondering making a version of our software that
interfaces with
Microsoft Project. Since we're a small company, I, a programmer, am
doing some
informal market research
.So my question for you guys is: would you be interested in any of the
following?
(1) A better leveler. We have leveling technology which significantly
outperforms the built-in MSP leveler. You can see a comparison with
the
Primavera leveler (roughly equivalent to the MSP leveler) here:
http://www.otsys.com/psop.htm
(2) An entirely new form of resource leveling that reduces total
project cost,
instead of just resource overload. (How? It also looks at resource
*under*-utilization and minimizes staffing level fluctuation.) More
here:
http://www.otsys.com/case_study
(3) More powerful schedule visualization tools. With our tools, you
can graph
the project resource usage summed over an arbitrary collection of
resources. You
can dynamically zoom in on the graph. You can drag to select a date
range to
get a list of all the tasks working in that date range. You can use
live-search
to filter the list of tasks dynamically, and see only the resource
usage of the
remaining tasks.
We also have a new kind of plot that colors resource usage by total
slack,
allowing you to quickly see which parts of your project are critical.
Here's an
example (from the case study link above):
http://www.otsys.com/images/figure_2_large.png
The green shows work that has 30 more 8-hour working days of slack,
the yellow
shows work that can only slip a little, and the red shows work that
can't slip
at all.
So, does any of this look interesting? If so, let me know!
Thanks for your time,
Erin Keenan
On Time Systems, Inc.
http://www.otsys.com/