====== Project Management ======

===== Motivation =====
  * (self) management: what's to do (for me)?
  * transparency: what's happening?

===== Requirements =====
  * track work item status and progress
    * individual states, transition rules, access rights
    * versions, milestones, categorisation
    * group voting
  * collaborate (concurrently) on workitems
  * search over items and other content
  * extensibility for more projects (BI, BIG EU, ...)

===== General Approach =====
  * use an integrated tool suite
  * start with a lighttower project and with minimal number of modules
  * later add necessary modules and integrate more projects (other Working Groups e.g.)

===== To be decided =====
  * how much money to spend?
  * :?: where to host software and data?
    * self-hosting
      * BI server
      * BIG-EU server
      * commercial hoster (e.g. Google)?
      * a BTL-related company
    * buy hosting
      * just a machine
      * open-source solution on a machine
      * whole (commercial) solution "in the cloud"

===== Steps =====
  - Introduce a issue and workflow management tool 
    - use it to track CR's
    - use it to track test definition changes
  - Introduce a document and information management tool
    * have all the documents accessable and searchable in one online place

===== Solution Ideas =====
  * [[wp>Comparison of open source software hosting facilities]]
  * [[https://www.assembla.com/|Assembla]]
    * hosted
  * [[https://www.chiliproject.org/|ChiliProject]], a fork of [[http://www.redmine.org/|Redmine]]
    * http://chili.nuabaranda.net
    * Hosting: http://www.finn.de/chiliproject
      * http://bacnet.finn.de
  * [[http://trac.edgewall.org/|Trac]]