S
Steven Beebe
Our product roadmap has integration with MS Project as a key priority. If
you have interest in leveraging the power of MS Project with broader
application life cycle management tools, we would like to hear your
thoughts.
Active! Focus (AF) is an application life cycle management tool designed to
be straightforward to use and affordable. AF 2.0 is currently in
development and will manage:
Project level information (including charter, start date, due date,
priority, customer).
Project Artifacts
-----------------
Events - the key milestones or life cycle phases of the project.
Tasks - project tasks, the work to be done.
Requirements - the content or definition of what is to be delivered.
Change Requests - proposals to alter agreed upon aspects of the project.
Defects - information concerning where the software does not perform as
specified in the requirements.
Issues - items that are hindering the progress of the project.
Risks - items with the potential to hinder the progress of the project.
(for more information on Active! Focus version 1.5, see
http://www.xapware.com/ActiveFocus.htm)
As we look at integration with MS Project, we see the following linkages:
AF Project information should map to MS Project Information.
AF Events & Tasks should map to MS Project milestones and tasks.
The remaining information would not be present in MS Project. By bringing
Active! Focus and MS Project together, it is our intent to give the project
team a more complete project management solution. While MS Project is an
excellent tool for managing schedules and timelines, it does not provide a
mechanism for managing Requirements, Change Requests, Defects, Issues and
Risks. Areas that may be critical to project success, but often aren't
managed as they should be. But we also recognize that maintaining similar
information in a plethora of tools does not improve productivity. We see AF
+ MS Project as a powerful solution to this problem.
Currently we are looking for input on what integration should enable you to
do. In the near future, we will be looking for people interested in testing
Active! Focus and MS Project integration.
Questions:
1) Does the mapping of information look appropriate to you?
2) What does integration mean to you? How would you expect the two products
to work together?
3) Do you know of any other tool like Active! Focus that already integrates
with MS Project?
you have interest in leveraging the power of MS Project with broader
application life cycle management tools, we would like to hear your
thoughts.
Active! Focus (AF) is an application life cycle management tool designed to
be straightforward to use and affordable. AF 2.0 is currently in
development and will manage:
Project level information (including charter, start date, due date,
priority, customer).
Project Artifacts
-----------------
Events - the key milestones or life cycle phases of the project.
Tasks - project tasks, the work to be done.
Requirements - the content or definition of what is to be delivered.
Change Requests - proposals to alter agreed upon aspects of the project.
Defects - information concerning where the software does not perform as
specified in the requirements.
Issues - items that are hindering the progress of the project.
Risks - items with the potential to hinder the progress of the project.
(for more information on Active! Focus version 1.5, see
http://www.xapware.com/ActiveFocus.htm)
As we look at integration with MS Project, we see the following linkages:
AF Project information should map to MS Project Information.
AF Events & Tasks should map to MS Project milestones and tasks.
The remaining information would not be present in MS Project. By bringing
Active! Focus and MS Project together, it is our intent to give the project
team a more complete project management solution. While MS Project is an
excellent tool for managing schedules and timelines, it does not provide a
mechanism for managing Requirements, Change Requests, Defects, Issues and
Risks. Areas that may be critical to project success, but often aren't
managed as they should be. But we also recognize that maintaining similar
information in a plethora of tools does not improve productivity. We see AF
+ MS Project as a powerful solution to this problem.
Currently we are looking for input on what integration should enable you to
do. In the near future, we will be looking for people interested in testing
Active! Focus and MS Project integration.
Questions:
1) Does the mapping of information look appropriate to you?
2) What does integration mean to you? How would you expect the two products
to work together?
3) Do you know of any other tool like Active! Focus that already integrates
with MS Project?