Software Engineering Prof. Dr. Bertrand Meyer March 2007 – June 2007 Chair of Software Engineering Tools Fest: MS Project

History The soviets shoot Sputnik-1 into earth orbit… The United States Department of Defense recognizes the lack of planning on their side… Invention of the “Program Evaluation and Review Technique” (PERT)… Invention of the “Critical Path” Method Extension of PERT with a “Work Breakdown Structure” (WBS)

Basic concept Software Engineering, lecture #: Topic 3 3

Basic concept PM activities fall into nine knowledge areas The tool integrates most of them

Project management tools Free / Open Source Gnome Planner  Easy to use  Free/Open Source  Available on Windows and Linux/Mac  Several undos  Work-centric by default  Very limited reporting  No shared ressources  Limited functionality Commercial Microsoft Project  Large, many features  Can save several baselines  Many useful reports  Shared resources  Commercial lisence  Windows only  One undo only!  Not work-centric by default Software Engineering, lecture #: Topic 5 5

The Demo Software Engineering, lecture #: Topic 6 6

References  Overview on tools:  MS Project:  Gnome Planner:  The Project Management Institute: Software Engineering, lecture #: Topic 7 7