[kplato] Hello

[Jim Sabatke]

Dag Andersen wrote:
> Mandag 13 november 2006 19:49 skrev Jim Sabatke:
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>> Even GANTT charts have limited use IMHO.  The best charting available is
>> to display Budgeted Cost of Work Scheduled vs. Budgeted Cost of Work
>> Performed (Schedule Variance); and Budgeted Cost of Work Performed vs.
>> Actual Cost of Work Performed (Cost Variance).
>>
>> Those two graphs will give the project team and executives a very good
>> view of how the project is actually proceeding.
> How many datapoints do you think we typically need to plot?
> I'm asking because it would be nice to use kchart for this but there is a 
> practical limit to how much data it can handle.
>> Estimated Cost and Time of Completion are also useful.
>>
>> Jim
>>
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> 

You actually don't need that many data points.  The graphs show 
incremental progress, so depending on the size of the project, daily or 
weekly data points are sufficient.  The idea is that there should be 
enough data points to accurately convey the real status of the project.

Jim