Period Independent Project Planning and Management / Milestone Driven not Date driven
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project planning at times needs to be DATE independent, e.g., Day 1 or Hour 1 or Minute 1 we meet to Brainstorm an idea. We create topics and put them in logical order, rearranging as needed. Using the Task features we create dependencies and a critical path. It can look like a PERT chart but that begins to look like a SWIMLANE exercise
Today I have to use a DATE usually Jan 1 to start things off and use durations - but it is kluge. There is one excel template (attached) but with brainstorming and changing period sizes the app is thrown into chaos.
Adding this PLANNING functionality to MM would give the product unparalleled PLANNING capabilities.
I can stay involved,
George
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Gantt project p...
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Unless you are looking for something completely different... Have you tried the GanttPro option in your Task Ribbon?
Unless you are looking for something completely different... Have you tried the GanttPro option in your Task Ribbon?
Before MindManager 9, the task information fields in a topic were independent. You could add a duration without also creating the start and due dates. After MindManager 9, the start date, due date and duration were locked together. If you add any one of them the others are also created. Tasks cannot have a duration without dates, so dependencies are not supported unless tasks have dates. The advantage of this is that non-working days are automatically handled, so you get an accurate overall timescale.
As Ary, says the Gantt Pro chart will allow you to manipulate a project. If you do not want the schedule to plan around non-working days, you can set the working calendar for that map to 7 days per week. If you choose a year where January 1st is the first day of week 1 (e.g. 2024), you will also get week numbers that are date independent.
Before MindManager 9, the task information fields in a topic were independent. You could add a duration without also creating the start and due dates. After MindManager 9, the start date, due date and duration were locked together. If you add any one of them the others are also created. Tasks cannot have a duration without dates, so dependencies are not supported unless tasks have dates. The advantage of this is that non-working days are automatically handled, so you get an accurate overall timescale.
As Ary, says the Gantt Pro chart will allow you to manipulate a project. If you do not want the schedule to plan around non-working days, you can set the working calendar for that map to 7 days per week. If you choose a year where January 1st is the first day of week 1 (e.g. 2024), you will also get week numbers that are date independent.
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