Somewhere back in 2004 we started to be concerned by the effort that was required to be effective at project startup, monitoring and status reporting.
We envisionned that it would be a real challenge to provision all our projects with the apprioriate knowledge management technologies and to monitor them with consistency.
With now more than 100 projects starting and ending every year we can say thanks to this early vision. Needless to say that the pressure at being efficient and predictable was high and this is still an important concern at Macadamian.
"Let's automate all that". Our concern for efficiency and predictability gave birth to what we called Project Tools. What is Project Tools?
Project Tool is a software product that aims at:
- Automating the innitiation of our project's knowledge management infrastructure (KMI). All tools needed for our projects are ready to go in no time (issue tracking, wiki, source control, mailing list, news groups, SFTP, continuous integration, IRC, etc...)
- Managing access control towards all system of the KMI
- Collecting projects progression metrics.
- Reporting objective information on progression.
Today I want to say kuddos to everyone who contributed to this project.
Thanks to you Francois, Pierre, Benoit, Sebastien, Jake, Jimmy, Richard, Rafy, Karen & Irina. It would not have been possible to achieve this without you.
Last but not least, this award would not exists without Teresa who submitted ProjectTools to InfoWorld. Thanks to you!
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"It is outside the scope of this blog post to go deeper about what it is, how it works and so on."
I disagree. Please tell us more about ProjectTools!
LOL. Thanks Olivier for your interest. Of course I meant in the context of this particular blog post where I wanted the emphasis to be put on the reward and people who made it possible.
Stay tuned for more details on PTools.
Hey Sylvain! Congrats! I'd love to hear more about ProjectTools. :)
Hi Sylvian, read about this from Matt Hately's blog. Congrats!
We would be interested in seeing how Code Collaborator can fit into the dashboard as well.
Can you drop me a line sometime next week? Matt has my contact info.
Oops, typo in your name in the first line. Begin awkward embarrassed smile.....
Awesome!!
It's great to hear this is having success :)
Your post reminds me of Pierre de Fermat: "I have a truly marvelous proof of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain."
hehe.. now you have to share your secret!
@ Sebastien.
Merci man! I will share the secret sauce of course!
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