1.2. What is this FAQ about ? (Project Management Programs)
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This article is from the Project Management Programs FAQ, by Pete Phillips pete@smtl.co.uk with numerous contributions by others.
1.2. What is this FAQ about ? (Project Management Programs)
This article contain the answers to some Frequently Asked Questions
(FAQ) often seen in various newsgroups on the net, regarding project
management and project management software.
It is compiled by myself, Pete Phillips (pete@smtl.co.uk), with the
help of hundreds of net.people.
Quite frequently on the net, you hear people asking the following
questions:
o Is there project-management software that runs under
X/DOS/UNIX/SunOS ?
o Is there any Public Domain project management software for XXX ?
These questions come up quite a lot. I've been collecting most
responses to project management questions since around 1991, and they
are summarised in this FAQ. In addition, I've had quite a bit of mail
asking for information on books etc on project planning. All of the
information I have so far is distilled into this FAQ and its sister
file which contains pointers to reviews of project management software
(see Question below on "Reviews").
I will use the term "Project Management" as shorthand for project management
throughout this file.
In addition it includes some extra information (such as a glossary) to
help those new to the field to understand some of the issues
discussed.
My background is in UNIX, and although I have access to PC's, I have
little or no interest in Project Management on PC's. Therefore I rely on others to
give me the PC/MSDOS info. This sometimes means that the PC/MSDOS
entries are sketchy. If you can fill in any of the gaps (for any
parts of this FAQ), then please do so.
Also, spelling is usually UK English, not USA English. Please don't
flame me for whatever mix of spelling is used - it's the information
that's important.
Finally, I get a lot of mail from people telling me that they've
looked at my WWW site for Project Management. I *DO NOT* make this available on the
SMTL web site, only on USENET news - if you are reading this on a web
site, it has been put there by someone else. I have no objection to
this, but I want people to know that the authoritative version of this
FAQ is the posting to the net.
If you need to mail me with info/queries, please quote the version
number of this FAQ, and the site you read it on if you read it on a
WWW site. This will allow me to update WWW site maintainers with the
latest versions of this FAQ.
This FAQ is now written in SGML and uses the linuxdoc DTD. This
enables me to convert to postscript, text and html from the one
source. However, I have not finished converting the publications
stuff yet, so that is missing for the moment. Also, I apologise that
URL's are printed twice (I haven't the time to investigate this at
present) and for any other mistackes (sic) in this document. Finally,
this document is presently still only available in news.answers as a
text file.
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