Event File System A Sample Scenario for Distributed Project Management Takashi Okumura Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh

Introduction

What is it? n Wraps ordinary file system and extends their functionality to support... –object store –event handling –hyper-linking Think of the objects as events, and apply project management technique!

Motivation n Needs for distributed project management –voluntary open-source software development –Internet protocol standardization process at IETF –Workflow description n lack of appropriate tool... on Unix!

Who should try n Person who is working with others over the network n Professor who is collaborating with many students n Hackers who die for freedom from MS n....and, member of any distributed project!

Basic Operations

1) Object deployment Directory Document Object Wrapping information Mailer object

2) Relationship building Temporal relationship “send a message at completion”

3) Attribution Name: Proposal Owner:taka Begin:Apr 01, 2000 Length:2 weeks

4) PERT Calculation Critical path Automatic updating of scheduling information

5) Progress Monitoring complete d active Status: 53% complete Status: not started

6) Hyper linking Connected to other project Connected to shared server

7) Message Passing Message to other project Completion message Log message

Sample Scenario - A Distributed Software Development

Project framework design Message board object Resource manager

Task assignment Owner: taka Owner: hato

Task assignment, cont. Soft link Taka’s home directry

Task assignment, cont. Incorporated with private project

Project structuring Super project Sub project

Reusing of Project Template Publication project template Alpha-release procedure template Meeting arrangement template Recruiting procedure template n Copy the template into your project n Then, customize! n Yes, Object Oriented!

Integration with mail system n By exporting the mail inbox to the system, task dispatching can be done from Request mail folder Project initiation activities result

Staff allocation GANTT chart representation Taka Hato neko risu usagi

Group allocation GANTT chart representation Hackers Designers Politicians

Resource allocation GANTT chart representation Machine MTG Room Kitchen Bed