Last updated on May, 19th 2010

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News

May, 19th 2010 Version 2.0. Earn-Value and graphical application for day to day imputations.
Oct, 8th 2009 Sourceforge registration. >>> [aroyer-watch] <<<
(The main location of the project remain this page)
Oct, 8th 2009 Version 1.0. First release.

Presentation

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

  1. 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.
  1. Imputations:
    Day by day, people fill in their activity using the Watch Editor application. Thanks to the comment facilities, Watch Editor is a useful diary notes tool for everyone.
  2. Revisions:
    Every team participant helps managing the project by giving revisions of the 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, the earned value is filled in automatically.
  1. 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 input is regular HTML, these reports are accessible to all participants. (Click for demo)

Use

The watch application suite is compound of the following applications:

More information will be given in a user manual, coming soon. Please have a look at the ABC-deal sample provided in the download archive.

Main interests

Here is a short list of the main interests of this application:

  • Better control of expenses: Thanks to this application, you have a better control of the expenses, especially when taking about time, and the control of the activity.
  • Better control of the advancement of the project: Thanks to the revisions, the history charts, and the 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 once the project is finished for improvements and future quotations.
  • Team communication: Take care of not using this tool for flicage, watching after the ass of the guys! And you may experience the positive communication facet of it. They feel concerned with the advancement of the project, they contribute to leading it.

If you find any other interest in this application, please .

License

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.

Download

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.

date binary source Description
May, 19th 2010 Watch_2.0.tgz Watch-src_2.0.tgz
cli-2.4.tgz
xmb_0.2.tgz
Version 2.0. Current stable release.
Oct, 8th 2009 Watch_1.0.tgz Watch-src_1.0.tgz
cli-2.4.tgz
First release.

History

date version Description
May, 19th 2010 2.0 Major modifications:
  • Initial risks and opportunities presentation in table reports.
  • Earn-value
  • Multi-user queries (--user Charon --user Brian ...)
  • Watch Editor: graphical application for day to day imputations
Bug Corrections:
  • Bug(minor)! Out-of-scope tasks present 'check' results in text outputs. They should not.
Miscellaneous:
  • Sourceforge project reference from the main page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/aroyer-watch/.
Oct, 8th 2009 1.0 First release.

Evolutions

Still many things to do... The first one will be a user-guide.

Don't hesitate to if you have any suggestion.

Contact

Any question? Found a bug? Feel free to .