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I have never been a big fan of Gantt charts because they are often taken by management as final when this is rarely the case. Steve McConnell in his book Rapid Development has more than a few tips that will help you prevent this. The rule of thumb is to refrain from time commitments until you have done the necessary design work first. If you have done little design work then your dates should be padded heavily, as you are given more time to finish your designs in greater detail you can remove some padding accordingly. As a developer your only leverage comes at the beginning of the project when management needs dates from you, if you over promise they will remember even if it was not your fault.

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Back to the topic at hand… Gantt charts are helpful when you need to organize your thoughts around which tasks can be done in parallel and which need to be done in series. Recently I tried out GanttProject for one of my projects and found it very easy to use. It’s an Open Source cross platform tool for making Gantt charts. Like Firefox and other successful Open Source projects it does one thing and does it well without all the clutter of unused features that have come to be expected with so many other products. GanttProject is easy to install and has an intuitive interface. Setting dependencies between tasks is done by dragging on the chart from the dependent task to the following task. The mouse operations all follow well established conventions decreasing the learning curve. My only complaint is that I found it a little sluggish on my 850 PIII, so I would give it 4 out of 5 stars. GanttProject Home

Over 50 Million (from mozilla.org) users have switched to using Firefox instead of Internet Explorer as their primary browser. A recent report (from cnn.com) showed Firefox to make up a 23% share of the market in Germany, they don’t like Microsoft much there . Many others have Been tracking the regular growth of Firefox since it was released last year, watching it grow to somewhere between 11% and 35% today depending on who you ask. There are differing opinions on the specific percentages but everyone agrees that Firefox is quickly becoming a threat to Internet Explorer’s domination. This is true because Firefox is simply a better product. I use it regularly and find that it has much better security and privacy than IE. One of the reasons for its quick growth stems directly from the Department of Homeland Defence and their warning about IE vulnerabilities. They recommended that users switch to a browser other than IE shortly after Firefox’s public release. Putting security issues to the side, there are many helpful features in Firefox that you will not find in IE. The Tabbed browsing for example, keeps me from opening multiple browsers and lets me more quickly look up information on other sites while waiting for my current site to load. Google searching is built right into the browser controls, engines can be easily downloaded to give this same functionality for your other favorite sites. I use it to quickly search Amazon, EBay, Walmart and many others.
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If you are familiar with RUP (Rational Unified Process) or any of the other Agile development methodologies then you probably already know that one should always do those tasks with the highest risk of failure first. This is wise because it supports accurate estimates by getting those areas we know the least about done first. If it turns out that the original estimate was wrong and you will need more time, then you will be able to communicate this earlier instead of the day before your release is due. These are important principles to live by but there are times when you need to attack your problems from a different angle. We all have bad days, sometimes it feels like you have your own personal rain cloud which is following you around. You may have had a flat getting to the office or problems with your email server. On days like this you need encouragement, and one of the best ways to boost your spirits while at work is to see your todo list shrinking. By turning your list upside down you can work on a few of those easy tasks. Don’t do this too long, you might start to get light headed and forget that you have responsibilities and deadlines. When I am stuck in a rut or on a tough problem the change of pace can be rejuvenating. Once I am refreshed the original problem does not look so bad and sometimes I get new insights because of this fresh start.

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