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From: Axel Kielhorn <org-mode@axelkielhorn.de>
To: Org-Mode Mailing List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Testers / Feedback wanted: Gantt charts via org-gantt.el
Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 15:13:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A8E885FC-3E83-43AE-B21B-2EADD602DCC1@axelkielhorn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1432985621669.70644@vis.uni-stuttgart.de>

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> Am 30.05.2015 um 13:33 schrieb Bernhard Schmitz <Bernhard.Schmitz@vis.uni-stuttgart.de>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> my org-gantt.el is now in a usable state. It creates gantt charts via pgfgantt directly from headlines in org mode, using deadlines, schedules, effort estimates and (optionally) clocked time.

Sounds like a good idea.
I tried writing pgfgantt manually but once I finished updating the chart, it was already out of date.
Getting the information from org would be fine.

I tried org-gantt on a current project and ran into one problem:

I track progress with
* Task [%]
and
* Task [/]

Of course the % causes a problem when exporting to LaTeX.
I suggest to either ignore [%] and [/] or use them as an alternative to show how much is completed.
It is probably a better metric than hours worked.

pgfgantt doesn’t handle \ganttbar commands without start and end date.
Therefor I can’t export an incomplete chart.
You may want to set the entries with missing scheduling information to the first day of the chart.
(Maybe mark the task or label with a color to indicate that they are incomplete.)
(See below for some different ideas.)

A two month chart doesn’t fit into \textwidth.
I wrapped it into a sideways environment (provided by rotating.sty), maybe a sideways option?
For a project with 2000 person hours[1] I’ll probably need a separate export and print it on A0 paper[2].
Some kind of scaling would be fine (show weeks / month instead of days).

For a huge project it may be nice to limit the levels printed:
Just Module 1 - 8 for the Management and each Module with the submodules for the project leader.
Similar to maxlevel in the clocktable.

I’m not sure about inheritance:
If I have a deadline for a task, should the subtasks inherit that deadline unless an explicit deadline is given?
If I have a deadline for a task and efforts for all subtasks, should the task inherit that effort?

That way I can give a deadline to the task and estimate efforts to get an initial chart.
Using this chart I can divide the subtasks between workers, rearrange the deadlines for the subtasks and finally define a scheduled date for the main task.

This gives me another idea:
Filter / color by tag.
Print only tasks tagged :Axel: to show my workload, and print tasks tagged :Sam_One: to show tasks I have delegated.
Color tasks by tags to show who is assigned, white for unassigned tasks.

Axel

[1] A 2000 PH project is not my usual project size, a few hundred is more common.
[2] I have access to an A0 printer but I usually draw with felt markers on (literal) wallpaper.
    Much faster for an initial design and I can use „real“ cut and paste:-)



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#+LANGUAGE: de-de
#+OPTIONS: toc:nil
#+OPTIONS: tags:nil
#+OPTIONS: todo:nil
#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{pgfgantt}


* Module [75%]
DEADLINE: <2015-05-31 Sun>
:PROPERTIES:
:ID:       gantt
:END:
** DONE Modul 1
CLOSED: [2015-05-31 Sun 11:49]
** DONE Modul 2
CLOSED: [2015-05-31 Sun 11:49]
** DONE Modul 3
CLOSED: [2015-05-31 Sun 11:49]
** DONE Modul 4
CLOSED: [2015-05-31 Sun 11:49]
** DONE Modul 5
CLOSED: [2015-05-31 Sun 11:49]
** DONE Modul 6
CLOSED: [2015-05-31 Sun 11:50]
** STARTED Modul 7 [40%]                                              :Axel:
:LOGBOOK:  
- State "STARTED"    from ""           [2015-05-31 Sun 11:50]
:END:      
*** DONE Submodule 1
CLOSED: [2015-05-31 Sun 11:50]
:LOGBOOK:  
- State "DONE"       from ""           [2015-05-31 Sun 11:50]
:END:      
*** DONE Submodule 2
CLOSED: [2015-05-31 Sun 11:50]
:LOGBOOK:  
- State "DONE"       from ""           [2015-05-31 Sun 11:50]
:END:      
:PROPERTIES:
:Effort:   40:00
:END:
:PROPERTIES:
:Effort:   0:10
:END:
*** STARTED Submodule 3 [3/4]
:LOGBOOK:  
- State "STARTED"    from ""           [2015-05-31 Sun 11:50]
:END:      
:CLOCK:    
CLOCK: [2015-05-31 Sun 10:00]--[2015-05-31 Sun 14:18] =>  4:18
:END:      
:PROPERTIES:
:Effort:   80:00
:END:
- [X] Task 1
- [X] Task 2
- [X] Task 3
- [ ] Task 4
*** STARTED Submodule 4
:LOGBOOK:  
- State "STARTED"    from ""           [2015-05-31 Sun 11:50]
:END:      
:PROPERTIES:
:Effort:   8:00
:END:
*** TODO Submodule 5
:PROPERTIES:
:Effort:   8:00
:END:
** STARTED Modul 8                                                 :Sam_One:
:LOGBOOK:  
- State "STARTED"    from ""           [2015-05-31 Sun 11:50]
:END:      

* Zeitplan
#+BEGIN: org-gantt-chart :id "gantt"
\begin{ganttchart}[time slot format=isodate, vgrid={*1{black},*4{dashed},*2{black}}]{2015-05-31}{2015-05-31}
\gantttitlecalendar{year, month=name, day}\\
\ganttgroup[group left shift=1.5604166666666666, group right shift=-0.0]{Module [75%]}{}{2015-05-31}\\% -- 5d 17:00 -(0d 17:00)-  -- 2015-05-31,08:00
  \ganttbar[bar left shift=1.5604166666666666, bar right shift=0.5604166666666666]{Modul 1}{}{}\\% --  -- 
  \ganttbar[bar left shift=1.5604166666666666, bar right shift=0.5604166666666666]{Modul 2}{}{}\\% --  -- 
  \ganttbar[bar left shift=1.5604166666666666, bar right shift=0.5604166666666666]{Modul 3}{}{}\\% --  -- 
  \ganttbar[bar left shift=1.5604166666666666, bar right shift=0.5604166666666666]{Modul 4}{}{}\\% --  -- 
  \ganttbar[bar left shift=1.5604166666666666, bar right shift=0.5604166666666666]{Modul 5}{}{}\\% --  -- 
  \ganttbar[bar left shift=1.5604166666666666, bar right shift=0.5604166666666666]{Modul 6}{}{}\\% --  -- 
  \ganttgroup[group left shift=1.5604166666666666, group right shift=0.5604166666666666]{Modul 7 [40%]}{}{}\\% --  -(0d 12:29)-  -- 
    \ganttbar[bar left shift=1.5604166666666666, bar right shift=0.5604166666666666]{Submodule 1}{}{}\\% --  -- 
    \ganttbar[bar left shift=1.5604166666666666, bar right shift=0.5604166666666666]{Submodule 2}{}{}\\% -- 1d 17:00 -- 
    \ganttbar[bar left shift=1.5604166666666666, bar right shift=0.5604166666666666]{Submodule 3 [3/4]}{}{}\\% -- 3d 09:00 -(0d 09:00)-  -- 
    \ganttbar[bar left shift=1.5604166666666666, bar right shift=0.5604166666666666]{Submodule 4}{}{}\\% -- 0d 09:00 -- 
    \ganttbar[bar left shift=1.5604166666666666, bar right shift=0.5604166666666666]{Submodule 5}{}{}\\% -- 0d 09:00 -- 
  \ganttbar[bar left shift=1.5604166666666666, bar right shift=0.5604166666666666]{Modul 8}{}{}\\% --  -- 
\end{ganttchart}
#+END:

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-31 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-30 11:33 Testers / Feedback wanted: Gantt charts via org-gantt.el Bernhard Schmitz
2015-05-31 13:13 ` Axel Kielhorn [this message]
2015-06-01 12:51   ` Bernhard Schmitz
2015-06-01 15:26     ` Axel Kielhorn
2015-06-01 18:38     ` Axel Kielhorn
2015-06-02  8:42       ` Bernhard Schmitz
2015-06-01 11:16 ` Karl Voit
2015-06-02  8:15   ` Bernhard Schmitz
2015-06-03 15:13     ` Karl Voit
2015-06-02  8:38 ` Eric S Fraga
2015-06-03 15:17   ` Karl Voit
2015-06-05  8:20     ` Bernhard Schmitz
2015-06-20 12:46     ` Bernhard Schmitz
2015-06-25  8:04       ` Eric S Fraga
2015-11-09 15:02       ` Karl Voit
2015-08-05  0:00 ` Bastien Guerry

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