1. Supercharging Fusebox Project Management
Jeff Peters
CFUNITED – The premier ColdFusion conference

2. What We'll Cover What is Project Management?
Why is Fusebox Good for PM?
Cool Tools
June 28th – July 1st 2006

3. What is Project Management?
Keeping Track of Time and Money
Answering Questions
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4. Time
Budget
Actual
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5. Time - Budget
What will be done?
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6. Time - Budget
When will it be done?
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7. Time - Budget
How long will it take?
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8. Time - Actual
What was done?
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9. Time - Actual
When was it done?
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10. Time - Actual
How long did it take?
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11. Time – Ideal vs. Calendar
Slack Time!
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12. Money
Budget
Actual
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13. Money – Budget
What will it cost?
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14. Money – Actual
What did it cost?
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15. PM Doesn't Matter... ...unless you want a happy customer.
...unless you want to get paid without a fuss.
...unless you want a strong reputation.
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16. Why is Fusebox Good for PM?
Organization
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17. FLiP Organizes the Lifecycle
Well-defined phases
Recognizable beginning and end of each phase
Discretely manageable chunks
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18. FLiP Organizes the Tasks
Easier to Assign Personnel According to Skills
Business Process
Design
Architecture
Coding
Testing
Deployment
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19. Fusebox Organizes the Code
Modules
Types of code
Displays
Queries
Actions
Etc. (Local conventions)
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20. Fusedoc Organizes the Coding
“Everything the coder needs to know and nothing more.”
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21. Fusedoc Organizes the Coding
<!---
<fusedoc fuse="dspCatalog.cfm" version="2.0" language="ColdFusion">
<responsibilities>
I display the current catalog listing.
</responsibilities>
<properties>
<history type="create" />
</properties>
<io>
<in>
<string name="xfa.lnkProductName" />
<recordset name="qryGetCatalog">
<number name="productID" precision="integer" />
<string name="productName" />
<string name="productDescription" />
</recordset>
</in>
<out>
<number name="productID" oncondition="XFA.lnkProductName" />
</out>
</io>
</fusedoc>
--->
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22. Properties Section Rules!
Use to establish local conventions
Available elements
<NOTE>
<HISTORY>
<PROPERTY>
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23. Unlocking the XML Power
Mine the data in Fusedocs for Project Management reports
FusedocMiner lets you transform into anything you want
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24. FusedocMiner
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25. FusedocMiner Demo
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26. What If My Coders Don't Update the Fusedocs?!
Encourage them to do better next time. Just like writing neatly formatted code, updating Fusedocs is a programming discipline everyone can learn.
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27. Where To Go From Here Write Your Own Stylesheets for FusedocMiner
Generate Reports
Create data to import into other tools (Microsoft Project?)
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28. Q&A
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