LAB EXERCISE 1:

AIM : List at least five software project management tool .The list
should include the following
a. Tool details
b. Feature of tool
c. Advantage of tool
d. Disadvantage of tool
e. Comparative study of tool
Tools are : -
a. PROECT LIBRE
b. OPEN PROJECT
c. dotProject
d. projeQtOr
e. ganttProject

1:-PROJECTLIBRE:-
ProjectLibre is open source, free to use project management software developed by
Marc O’ Brien as an alternative to Microsoft Project.
It’s used for task management, resource allocation, tracking of tasks, Gantt charts
and much more.
ProjectLibre is developed using Java and provides a similar user interface as
Microsoft Project.
It includes a ribbon-style menu and the same series of steps to create a project plan,
i.e., create an indented task list or ‘work breakdown structure’ (WBS), set
durations, create links, assign resources, etc.

Features:-
 Compatible with MS Project
 Advanced project management functionality
 Collaboration ,issue tracking and other features

Advantages:-
 Free and Open Source
 Diagrams are automatically created
 Intuitive layout
 Handles task assignments
 Handles scheduling
Disadvantages:-
 does not offer risk management
 Does not offer cost management
 email notifications and templates for future projects.

2:-Openproject:–
OpenProject is a Web based project management solution which was designed
using Ruby on Rails and Angular JS. It was released under the GNU General Public
License Version 3 and is under consistent development by the open source
community.

It is highly suitable for location-independent team collaboration. OpenProject is

ideal for project teams to work in throughout the project’s life cycle.

The platform offers various features like collaborative project planning, timeline
reports, management of tasks, reporting of project costs incurred from time to time,
Scrum and much more.

Features:-
 Project planning and scheduling
 Project roadmap and release planning
 Effective task management and team collaboration
 Time tracking,budgeting and reporting of costs
 Bug tracking

Advantages:-
 Cost and ability to scale.
 plateform depandent.
 scalable

Disadvantages:-
 OpenProject should not be used if the Information Technology staff
members are not familiar with Linux operating systems or when end users
 lack connectivity to internet and need cross- platform compatibility to other
software such as Microsoft Project.

3:-dotProject:-
The ‘dotProject’ was written in 2000 on the PHP platform .dotProject’s latest
stable release is 2.1.8, released on July 27, 2013. It has a GNU GPL and supports
all types of OS
It has many attractive features that the Project Management Company in Ireland
would like to emphasize as it is one of the best maintained open source project
management application.
 It has an intuitive browser-based interface, and offers an entire spectrum of
sophisticated project management tools and features for multiple users.
 Task Management features include Task Description, Assigning, Scheduling
and Duration of the task.
 It allows nodal user permissions, discussion dashboards, Gantt charts,
contact lists, file checkout, reporting, and user-based or list-based task
features.
dotProject works on all operating systems and is therefore highly appreciated for
its agility across all platforms by the Software Company in Ireland. This allows
Loyalty CRM in Ireland with teams and multiple users or companies using various
operating systems to work collaboratively on dotProject.

Feature:-

 User Management
 Email-based Trouble Ticket System
 Client/Company Management
 Project Listings
 Hierarchical Task List
 File Repository
 Contact List
 Calendar
 Discussion Forum

Disadvantage:-

Disadvantage to‘dotProject’ is it is not a stand-alone application and needs to be on

a web server to work.
4:-ProjeQtOr :-
ProjeQtOr is a solid, open source project management tool originally released in
2009 by French developer Pascal Bernard.Over the years, dozens of contributors
have put significant work into the project, expanding it into a deep project
management system with a dizzying number of features, including portfolio
management, bug tracking, risk management, and budget management.You can
take the system for a test run and try everything out with this online demo. In
addition to the installed versions, you can run the program right through your
browser.screenshot of the main user interface in ProjectQtOr

Adavatage:-
ProjeQtOr is completely free; the developer makes money off the project by
charging for hosting the system, premium support (basic support is available via
community forum), professional training, and developing custom features. Users
can also request features for free in the forum; “sponsoring” a feature request just
expedites the process.

The system is regularly updated, with new patches coming out several times per
month and a new major update to add features and address issues roughly every
other month. The community forum is also very active. Bernard (who goes by
“babynus” on the forum) responded to ten topics on the day we took a look at it.

Disadvanatage:- As you can see in the screenshot above, ProjeQtOr has a lot
going on. This can be overwhelming for new users, and the website itself says:
“ProjeQtOr can frighten you at first sight: The number of menu icons available after
installing the application is impressive, and you may dread complexity.”

5:- ganttproject:-
Founded in 2003, GanttProject is one of the more established tools on our list. It’s
been through many releases in the last 15 years, with the most recent in May 2018
(GanttProject 2.8.8).You can download GanttProject from the vendor or through a
code repository where it’s registered, including GitHub and SourceForge.It’s ideal
for small businesses that need project planning, resource management, and task
management capabilities but that also have an IT staff that can oversee
implementation and troubleshoot issues.GanttProject is written in Java (requires
Java RunTime) and is compatible with Windows, OSX, and Linux operating
systems.
Capabilities include task management, resource management, and project planning
using Gantt charts and PERT charts. Users can export data to .csv and generate
summary PDF reports.

Advantage :-

 The product is fairly robust. And because it’s free, the vendor is
straightforward about what is, and is not, available in their product. For
example, on their FAQ page, they clearly state that GanttProject cannot
perform resource leveling. Being upfront about their product offering shows
they care about meeting the needs of their users.

 the vendor provides several support resources including video tutorials

contributed by volunteers and a support forum.

Disadvantage :-

You can’t measure task duration in hours, only days. While this isn’t a con unique
to GanttProject, it may deter teams that need to manage smaller projects where
single tasks don’t require a day or longer to complete.
Comparison of project management tool

TOOL WEB HOSTED ON SaaS LICENSE PROGRAMMING

BASED PREMISES LANGUAGE
PROECT No YES NO CPAL(com JAVA
LIBRE mon public
attribution
license)
OPEN YES YES YES GPL(GNU Ruby on Rails and
PROJECT general Angular JS
public
license)
dotProject YES YES YES GPL(GNU PHP
general
public
license)
projeQtOr yes yes yes AGPL(Affer PHP
o General
public
license)
ganttProject NO YES UNKNO GPL(GNU JAVA
WN general
public
license)
LAB EXERCISE 2:
AIM : Create Project in ProjectLibre and do the following
operations.
a) Add following task list
b) Add work column
c) Add predecessor
d) Link the task
Solution
Activity Activity Duration Predecessor
No.
1 Plan Phase
2 Moving things to rental place 5d
3 Take floor measurement 1d 2
4 Hire someone to lay tiles 1d 3
5 Choose closet design 3d 4
6 Choose tiles for floors 2d 5
7 Place orders 2d 6
8 Check planning details 0d 7
9 Tile Phase
10 Remove Old Tiles 6d 8
11 Level Floors 1d 10
12 Place New Tiles 5d 11
13 Check floor 1d 12
14 Clean up 1d 13
15 Paint house 2d 14
16 Setup Phase
17 Assemble Room 1 1d 15
18 Assemble Room 2 1d 17
19 Final clean up 0.5d 18
20 Final settings 1d 19
Solution :
LAB EXERCISE 3:
AIM: Create Software Project in Project Libre and do the following
operations
a) Enter minimum 4 phases for a project
b) Each phase should have at least 4 tasks
c) Add milestone task in each phase
d) Save the Gantt chart
e) Add resources(use all the types)
f) Assign resources to each task
g) Show resource usage and histogram of each resources

Solution:
Analyst:
Coder:

Tester:

Developer:

Manager
RESOURCE USAGE :
LAB EXERCISE 4
AIM: Create project in ProjectLibre and do the following
operations:
a) Enter minimum 4 phases for a project
b) Each phase should have at least 4 tasks
c) Add milestone task in each phase
d) Assign resources to each task
e) Save baseline of project
f) Save the gantt chart
g) Add more tasks in each phase
h) Add resources(use all the type)
i) Show resource usage and histogram of each resources
Solution:
RESOURCE :

ANALYST :

ANALYST 2:

MANAGER:
TESTER:

CODER:

DEVELOPER:
RESOURCE USAGE:
LAB EXERCISE 5:
AIM: Create project in ProjectLibre and do the following
operations:
a) Create a Calendar in your project
b) Add all the gazetted holidays of year 2018
c) Make the first and third Saturday working
d) Enter minimum 4 phases for a project
e) Each phase should have at least 4 tasks
f) Add milestone task in each phase
g) Add resources
h) Save the baseline of the project
i) Save the gantt chart

Solution:
LAB EXERCISE 6
AIM: List any 05 software configuration tools and compare them.

1:-Ansible
"Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications
and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and
update your applications—automate in a language that approaches plain English,
using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems."

Ansible is one of my favorite tools; I started using it several years ago and fell in
love with it. You can use Ansible to execute the same command for a list of servers
from the command line. You can also use it to automate tasks using "playbooks"
written into a YAML file, which facilitate communication between teams and non-
technical people. Its main advantages are that it is simple, agentless, and easy to
read (especially for non-programmers).

Because agents are not required, there is less overhead on servers. An SSH
connection is necessary when running in push mode (which is the default), but pull
mode is available if needed. Playbooks can be written with a minimal set of
commands or they can be scaled for more elaborate automation tasks that could
include roles, variables, and modules written by other people.

You can combine Ansible with other tools to create a central console to control
processes. Those tools include Ansible Works (AWX), Jenkins, RunDeck, and
ARA, which offers traceability when running playbooks.

2:-CFEngine
"CFEngine 3 is a popular open source configuration management system. Its
primary function is to provide automated configuration and maintenance of large-
scale computer systems."

CFEngine was introduced by Mark Burgess in 1993 as a scientific approach to

automated configuration management. The goal was to deal with the entropy in
computer systems' configuration and resolve it with end-state "convergence."
Convergence means a desired end-state and elaborates on idempotence as a
capacity to reach the desired end-state. Burgess' research evolved in 2004 when he
proposed the Promise theory as a model of voluntary cooperation between agents.
The current version of CFEngine incorporates Promise theory and uses agents
running on each server that pull the configuration from a central repository. It
requires some expert knowledge to deal with configurations, so it's best suited for
technical people.

3:-Chef
"A systems integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration
management to your entire infrastructure

Chef uses "recipes" written in Ruby to keep your infrastructure running up-to-date
and compliant. The recipes describe a series of resources that should be in a
particular state. Chef can run in client/server mode or in a standalone configuration
named chef-solo. It has good integration with the major cloud providers to
automatically provision and configure new machines.

Chef has a solid user base and provides a full toolset to allow people with different
technical backgrounds and skills to interact around the recipes. But, at its base, it is
more technically oriented tool.

4:-Puppet
"Puppet, an automated administrative engine for your Linux, Unix, and Windows
systems, performs administrative tasks (such as adding users, installing packages,
and updating server configurations) based on a centralized specification."

Conceived as a tool oriented toward operations and sysadmins, Puppet has

consolidated as a configuration management tool. It usually works in a client-
server architecture, and an agent communicates with the server to fetch
configuration instructions.

Puppet uses a declarative language or Ruby to describe the system configuration. It

is organized in modules, and manifest files contain the desired-state goals to keep
everything as required. Puppet uses the push model by default, and the pull model
can be configured.

5:-Salt
"Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or
application at scale."
Salt was created for high-speed data collection and scale beyond tens of thousands
of servers. It uses Python modules to handle configuration details and specific
actions. These modules manage all of Salt's remote execution and state
management behavior. Some level of technical skills are required to configure the
modules.

Salt uses a client-server topology (with the Salt master as server and Salt minions
as clients). Configurations are kept in Salt state files, which describe everything
required to keep a system in the desired state.

COMPARISION BETWEEN SOFTWARE CONFOGURATION

TOOL

Tool Language Encrypt Agent- GUI First Last release

name used less used Release
Ansible python yes yes Yes 15-01-2009 13-2-201`8

Chef ruby yes no yes 15-01-090 28-01-19

Puppet C++,ruby yes no Yes 30-08-2005 15-01-2009

CFengin c yes yes no 1993 23-11-2015

30-11-2015

16-12-15
Salt python yes both Yes 17-03-2011 25-09-2017
LAB EXERCISE 7
AIM: Create project in ProjectLibre and do the following
operations:
a) The project should have 4 modules
b) Enter minimum 4 phases for a module
c) Each phase should have atleast 4 tasks
d) Add milestone task in each phase
e) Assign resources to each task
f) Add cost for each resources
g) Save baseline
h) Add Actual start date
i) Add actual finish date
j) Generate report of following types:
1. Project detail report
2. Baseline
3. Task information-baseline
4. Task information-default
5. Task information-tracking
6. Task information-summary
7. Resource information-default
8. What does what-basic report

Solution :
Task information-baseline
Task information-default

Resource information-default

Task information-Summary
What does what-basic report