project management

[massimo gallina]

I've been managing a large number of projects lately, and sometimes the info or requests are "lost" in the air....... is there any program and files excel ,word, access...............for the management of all the info of a project?

 

[Venez]

there are so many management around, however to keep track of all the information of a project I don't think it is so important the "support", as well as the storage method. also because the info from the customer can come in various form (mail, images, textual files, 3d), and you will parallelly pull out a lot of data (which can be excell calculations, notes and sketches on paper etc.). in the company where I work we store both in digital and in paper every information inherent to the projects, this is important because at a distance of years if someone asks you "Why did the hole of a tenth widen on that piece? / why does it print in pa6 and before it was in pa66? " just open the folder associated with that project and spulciate between the information.
Sometimes it seems like a waste of time (and the cabinets burst of bonfires after a while) mark each cable and store, but in case there is need, you really have everything at hand.

 

[Tequila]

if you do an online research on project management programs come out several, both free and paid.
You could take a look at microsoft project, openproj, achievo.

not having big needs, in the project phase, in a folder within that of the project called "documents" I create subfolders named with year-month-day (e.g. 2013-05-07) where I insert all the files, information, mail received that day. in the case of documents received or sent the same day, I renew the folder with the addition of documents received or sent (e.g. 2013-05-07_receipts )

 

[Fulvio Romano]

there is a science called "requirement management" and "requirement engineering". there are software fior (e.g. doors of the ibm) in which it is possible to enter requirements in semiformal language, and the program generates the tree of requirements and structure by department, by production phase, etc. generates traceability and impact matrices, manages revisions and who more has it put.

all overly complex stuff. is good for very complex projects, such as the design of the space shuttle, a boeing, etc.

for everyday life I can suggest http://sourceforge.net/projects/kabikaboo/ that is simply a manager of recursive notes. very comfortable.