Mantis Project Management

Copyright (C) 2011 Vincent Sels

Summary

Project Management is a plugin for the open source MantisBT tool (also check out its Github page). This plugin attempts to add basic project management features such as estimations, timetracking, project follow-up, and resource management to the existing bugtracking functionality.

Features

Advanced time registration

• Allows different types of work like analysis, development and testing.
• Optionally supply an estimation to be set once. The remaining work todo is calculated.
• Optionally overrule the calculated amount of work to do. The difference with calculated amount of work is visualised.
• Displays a summary in the bug view details.
• Highly configurable: specify for which profiles time registration is enabled, which profiles can alter estimations, which sorts work are usable by which profiles,...

Time registration overviews

• Time registration worksheet:
  • Displays recently visited issues, allows direct input of hours done.
  • Displays recently registered hours done, by day, week and month.
• Time registration overview / billing:
  • Limited to managers, an overview of all hours registered, the price per hour of the resource, and total costs.
  • The ability to delete or change time registration entries (todo).
  • Easily navigate to data for a specific project, category, user, type of work,...
  • Displays summary reports per user.

Project timeline

• Shows an overview of all projects, sub-projects, categories and tickets for a certain version:
  • A visual representation of how much work a certain project / category is compared to the rest of the work for that version
  • A visual representation of how far the developer(s) have progressed, based on their estimations when supplied.
  • Optionally assign individual colors to developers.
• See when a certain developer will finish his or her work on a certain project (work in progress).
• Switch between a per-project view or a per-resource view (work in progress)

Resource management

• For each user, optionally specify the amount of hours per week and hourly cost, default type of work,...

Upcoming features

Prioritizing features

• Give issues a weight, based on configurable parameters.
• Set dependencies for tickets.
• Based on these and/or other parameters, view the order in which tickets should be handled.

Resource overviews

• Get detailed overviews per resource - tickets solved, most overdue tickets,...

Credits

A lot of credit goes to Mantis plugin-guru jreese (http://noswap.com), whose plugins supplied a great source of examples and inspiration.