TaskJuggler – A Free and Open Source Project Management Software

Re:TaskJuggler – A Free and Open Source Project Management S... by mlaretallack on Thursday September 30, 2021 @03:20PM (#28710207)

I have used TaskJuggler alot in the past, however that was more in a waterfall developement where we needed to plan the whole project over 6 months to 3 years, For agile I have not really used it, a SCRUM/Other board tends to fit better. But I still really like TaskJuggler

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Re:TaskJuggler – A Free and Open Source Project Management S... by diegoveralli on Thursday September 30, 2021 @03:34PM (#28710349)

Same here, it's very useful for waterfall scenarios but I've never used it for agile planning and I'm not sure it would have a place in that kind of workflow.

Also, for medium-sized projects and up I've found its planning heuristics some times produce pretty bad plans (in terms of deadlines and resource utilization), and you have to guide it towards a better solution, by adding artificial constraints.

But having a project plan that I can express in the form of tasks and constraints, and that I can fully track using git, makes up for any of TaskJuggler's shortcomings.

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