tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2007://1/tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2005://1.7576- 2007-12-03T11:54:13Z Comments for Itensil - interesting pm tool Jack Vinson writes about knowledge management, personal effectiveness, theory of constraints and more. As of December 2007 Jack will likely start writing about product management too. Movable Type 4.01 tag:blog.jackvinson.com,2005://1.7576.1822 Comment from Scott Hampton on 2005-09-29 Scott Hampton http://med_biz_wiz.livejournal.com/ This software looks promising. We've long since given up on the PMI style, using GANNT only when clients request it. As you point out the big problems with most PM tools are the assumed heirarchy and the lack of association -- the PM tools live in a world disconnected from the way we do the work and fail to provide the help we need.

On top of WIKI and our lightweight project communication web tools, we get a lot of use out of the brainstorming tool NovaMind (www.novamind.com), which we now use for agendas and project dependencies, etc. For PM we're testing Merlin (www.projectwizards.net), which does the GANNT thing but lets us associate files, flag critical items, tag risk levels, etc.

I have a fantasy (no, not like that): someday I'll be able to look at my network diagram, laid out swimlane style by person, with durations indicated visually, criticality and risk coded in, etc. And then when I click on an item I will see all the work associated with it, since the interface is just an output of my QMS. But I dream...

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