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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/