Technical Project

Activities ::: mod_techproject

Maintained by

Valery Fremaux

The "techproject" activity module provides a complete project driving tool, IEEE compliant, in a pedagogical environment, for real project use or for pedagogical approach of project management.

Latest release: 12 months

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11 downloads

14 fans

Current versions available: 11

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CHANGE : We have spent time enough to use Moodle Plugin Maintenance API to support automated plugin update chain from our internal development workflow.

This "techproject" activity module is intended to give a complete project driving tool in a pedagogical environment, allowing to teach first principles of pragmatic project management to students through standard steps that are

collecting needs as requirements,
describing solution with specifications,
and controlling development task within a milestone schedule
for providing deliverables
that will be reviewed and validated

Its goal is to fit moodle with a fully featured project management tool that could either be used to manage real projects, or drive student projects as a project based pedagogy.

Description entities are tree-shaped, thus improving continuous refinement method.

Techproject is "group" aware, and will allow each course group to form an independant team to drive his own worktrack.

Skills developped

Ability to describe in details using continuous refinement thinking
What is a requirement
What is a specification
How to monitor project coverage and progress
How to plan project in a global schedule (milestoning)
How to qualify and define tasks
How to make a cost study
How to consider risk
How to distribute work among a team
The benefit of information relationship and consistant indicators binding
How to proper drive a validation review

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Comments

Bohumil Havel
Tue, 18 Sept 2012, 4:05 PM
It seem great, but editing project (Edit heading)
goes to error
Unknown exception related to local files (Invalid itemid)
Bohus
Valery Fremaux
Tue, 18 Sept 2012, 5:27 PM
checking that point out.
Bernhard Harrer
Tue, 18 Sept 2012, 9:45 PM
Fantastic! I was waiting for a project management activity. Thank you so much Valery! We use Moodle 2.2. Currently there is no German translation so far. Is anybody working on one or should I try?
Valery Fremaux
Wed, 19 Sept 2012, 12:59 AM
not yet indeed... there was a spanish translation that would need to be seriously refreshed.... i guess the best way is editing directly a clone of the lang/en directory
Bohumil Havel
Wed, 19 Sept 2012, 4:40 PM
Thanks! Edit is correct, now understand the extensive module :-o
Valery Fremaux
Thu, 20 Sept 2012, 4:31 AM
Fast code change in the next fellow review time will be tracked in Git repos, with comment advice here, before pushing new stable versions to Moodle.org. Use the alternative download URL to get the last code. Thanks for comprehension. (saves me 15 minutes each update )
Valery Fremaux
Thu, 20 Sept 2012, 4:32 AM
Code change : fix Gantt issues, Milestone weak styling, Gantt unscheduled tasks ordering)
Geoff Waring
Fri, 28 Sept 2012, 8:39 AM
I installed this to trial it. When I go to save the edited settings I get an error "Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: Invalid string identifier. The identifier cannot be empty. Please fix your get_string() call."

Also minor spelling error: "Faisibility" should be spelled "Feasibility"
Nyree Williams
Sat, 29 Sept 2012, 9:16 PM
the module is great but it breaks the layout of the standard theme each time I install it
Valery Fremaux
Sun, 30 Sept 2012, 1:41 AM
gonna see i i can get more control on $PAGE layout indeed... cheers.
Valery Fremaux
Sun, 30 Sept 2012, 2:11 AM
Nyree, might you send me some precisions about desease, when occurs, on which screen please. Thanks...
Valery Fremaux
Sun, 30 Sept 2012, 4:52 AM
Unreproductible here (layout and coding error). I check delivery versions on github.com.
Nyree Williams
Sun, 30 Sept 2012, 8:04 AM
Hi Valery I'm using the latest version of Moodle 2.3 with the Liven theme. When I install the module the theme layout cuts to half the screen width. Without the module installed the layout width returns to its full width. (Standard theme behaves in the same way )
Valery Fremaux
Sun, 30 Sept 2012, 5:31 PM
Hi Nyree, this seems probably means there are fixed width in techproject tables layout. Do you ise a high def screen resolution (> 1280px) ? this might be a track i can follow