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Getting Started ProjectLibre was so simple to install on my machine that I will presume that you have done that and are ready to run it. As I suggested in the Workshop, given the size of the build teams and the length of the tasks you can probably skip the added complexity of the “resources” concept of assigning individuals to tasks.)

(These books will teach you areas likely beyond what you’ll need for the robot build. Amazon has books (paper or Kindle) available on ProjectLibre including a user manual, a tutorial, and other resources. As stated earlier, this tutorial just scratches the surface of what ProjectLibre can do. You can reach him by sending an email to To help have your email stand out from others, please put “ProjectLibre” in the subject field. Given the short build time, though, many questions will be time-urgent and so while the author of this document is by no means an expert in every piece of project management tools, he is willing to help where possible. On the website that might be useful for you to join. 4 Microsoft Project is a trademark of the Microsoft Corporation. 3 Excel is a trademark of the Microsoft Corporation. If you are not familiar with it, I highly recommend that you visit Among other events, each year they sponsor a workshop for teams to hone their skills or learn about new topics. “SCRA” is the Steel City Robotics Alliance. There is an online help facility in the tool accessible by clicking on the “?” in the upper right corner. Resources for more Information or Help There are several resources available to help you learn and use the tool. If you are intrigued by this software, there is plenty of time after the build and competitions are over to explore it more thoroughly. In short, the goal of this tutorial is not to impress you with the tool, but rather to help you use this tool in your build.
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Therefore, not only is this not going to be a comprehensive user’s manual describing every option and feature in ProjectLibre, the scope of this tutorial is being purposely limited to the smallest set of features you’ll likely need to manage the robot build.
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Scope of this Tutorial It is impossible in a short tutorial to introduce you to every aspect of project management software whether represented in a free tool like ProjectLibre or commercial tools like Microsoft Project4. Jim Broker, Team 3511’s mentor, has given permission for that spreadsheet to be used in this tutorial as example tasks or as templates as desired. In the spring 2013 robot build, Team 3511 used an Excel3 spreadsheet to view their progress and word of that spreadsheet led to the Project Planning session being requested at the SCRA Workshop. If you haven’t seen them yet, I suggest looking over the slides before continuing with this tutorial. While the terminology will be defined in this tutorial, the “whys” and “oops” in the slides will not be recreated here.

The slides cover the introductory material explaining why a team can benefit from using project-planning techniques, introduces some of the terminology that is used and describes some common pitfalls that hopefully you will be able to avoid by being aware of them. First, in writing this tutorial I am presuming that you have either attended the “Project Planning” session at the 2013 SCRA2 Workshop or have read the annotated slides from that session that are posted with this document. Two comments before we get into the “meat” of the subject. Quite importantly, if your team is behind schedule a tool like this can help identify where the team needs to concentrate its effort to achieve the goal of taking a quality robot to Regionals and, possibly, further on to Nationals. While using this type of software to help manage an 8-week project might seem excessive, I believe you will find that this will help you deal with the hectic build period by quickly showing where your team is in the build process and whether it is behind, on, or ahead of schedule.

Introduction General Comments Congratulations! Reading this shows that you are interested in using project management software to help with your team’s robot build. 14 Creating a Project with Forward versus Backwards Scheduled Tasks. 3 Resources for more Information or Help. ProjectLibre is a trademark of Marc O’Brien and Laurent Chrettieneau.Ĭontents Introduction.

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