Fast Track Project Management on TuboGears
Optio software has released the Fast Track Project management application under an MPL license. I’ve got a SVN checkout of the code on my desktop right now and it looks like it will be very useful in a couple of different ways.
The key to good project management is communicating clearly.
I think Fast Track is right on target, in terms of Project Management
theory — project management is about expectations, risks, and
commitment. FastTrack is a tool to facilitate project communication — not a tool to create gantt charts or work breakdown structures. I know some people who live and die by these tools, but think they usually do little more than get in the way of communication, and restrict your ability to adapt to changes in the project over time. In other words they make project management harder. Fast Track on the other hand is all about communicating various project status information in human language. Unlike other project management tools, Fast Track is makes sense to me, and is a tool I want to use.
The fast track code looks good.
I have a SVN checkout of the code on my desktop right now. So far it looks clean, usable, and easy to understand.
If you are new to TurboGears, and you want to understand how real applications are written, this is a great example.
In fact, if all goes well FastTrack will be one of main sources for real world example code in the TurboGears book that Kevin and I have been working on.