Presentation

Watch is an application that allows the control of imputations (basically charges in days). It also manages advanced concepts like risks and opportunities, and Earn-Value.

Tasks: The tasks of the project are defined in a tree structure (like a WBS). According to initial quotations and planning, the final tasks have initial values, risks and opportunities, start and end-date.		Imputations: Day by day, people fill in their activity using the Watch Editor application, just as if it was a diary log. Revisions: Every team participant helps managing the project by giving revisions of single tasks he/she is working at. The time remaining, risks and opportunities can be revised and when a task is declared to be done, earned value is filled in automatically.
Computations: Eventually, the main Watch application permits the exploitation of the data above. Various reports can be generated, most relevant are presented below: report tables and history charts. As far as the reports are regular HTML, they are easily available for all participants.
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Thanks to Watch, you gain:

• Better control of expenses: Thanks to this application, you have a better control of expenses through time-tracking features, easy to setup and to use.
• Better control of the advancement of the project: Thanks to revisions, history charts, and earn-value features, you may sense as soon as possible the deviations of the project.
• Capitalization: The output reports constitute a fair good database of capitalization. They may be analyzed, at different levels of the WBS, once the project is finished for improvements and future quotations.
• Team communication: Take care of not using this tool to put the guys under pressure, and you may experience the positive communication facet of it. They feel concerned with the advancement of the project, they contribute to leading it.

• Watch: This command line tool constitutes the heart of Watch.

  $ Watch.sh --help Watch version 2.2 (c) 2008-2011 (Alexis Royer, http://alexis.royer.free.fr/Watch) Usage: Watch [{-h,--help}] Usage: Watch [{-v,--verbose}] [{-q,--quiet}] [{-t,--traces} trace1[,trace2...]] [{-i,--interactive}] [--disable-xml-load] [input file ...] -h,--help: Displays this help and quit -v,--verbose: Show verbose output information -q,--quiet: Disable warnings -t,--traces trace1[,trace2...]: Traces activation (coma seperated: WATCH_APP,WATCH_INPUT...) -i,--interactive: Do not leave execution (verbose implied) --disable-xml-load: Disable xml-load feature [input file ...]: List of input files

  It is basically a command line interface (see the CLI project) that provides all Watch features (the 'watch' command implements the final computation queries):

  --------------------------------------------------- Welcome to Watch! Watch is a command line interface using the CLI library (c) Alexis Royer http://alexis.royer.free.fr/CLI/ Type 'help' at any time or press '?' or TAB to get completion or help. --------------------------------------------------- Watch>help # Insert a comment cli-config CLI configuration menu exit Exit menu 'Watch' help Get help imputations Imputations menu definition locale Project locale settings project Project name setting pwm Print Working Menu quit Quit revisions Task revision menu show Display information tasks Task definition menu watch Watch project xml-load Load an XML file Watch>

  Input files can be either CLI files or XML files.
• Editor: Graphical application allowing team participants to fill in their activity and participate in task revisions.
• Cli2Xml:
  Cli to XML Watch files translator.
  Converts Watch files from the native CLI to the XML syntax. Used for performance concerns.

A short user guide of the Watch command lines is available here. More information will be given in a full user manual, coming soon. Please also have a look at the ABC-deal sample provided in the download archive.

This software, written by Alexis Royer, is under BSD-like license.

This kind of license is compatible with commercial use, modification and redistribution, under the terms of the license.

Since Watch is based on the CLI library and the XmlModelBinding tool, when downloading the source package, you'll need to download these elements as well. Watch is also based on jargs and simile softwares, which are provided within the source package.

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