Title :
PACT-a software package to manage projects and coordinate people
Author :
Cleetus, K.J. ; Cascaval, Gheorghe C. ; Matsuzaki, K.
Author_Institution :
CyberMarche Inc., Morgantown, WV, USA
Abstract :
PACT is a software package that extends Microsoft Project by endowing it with extensive features needed to coordinate projects among distributed participants and manage their inter-dependencies. Significant features include: support for multiple users; comprehensive RDBMS to store project history and maintain strict access control; common visibility of the project network to all team members, no matter where they are on a network; direct involvement by participants in the coordination of the project; practical metrics to assess projects, at the planning phase itself, using the most recent project data; worklist queues to notify members of the project when changes occur; attachment of the results of tasks to the tasks themselves for others to instantly obtain all the technical information needed to perform subsequent tasks; paperless working is thus made possible
Keywords :
groupware; project management; project support environments; relational databases; software packages; Microsoft Project; PACT; RDBMS; coordinate projects; project history; project network; software package; team members; worklist queues; Access control; Costs; Delay; Engineering management; History; Laboratories; Production engineering; Project management; Software packages; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 1996. Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Stanford, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7446-6
DOI :
10.1109/ENABL.1996.555183