Distributed Project Management

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Distributed Project Management

• Passakon Prathombutr
• Ashok Emani

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Motivation

• Limitation of single-user PM
• Distributed organization lt-gt distributed PM
• Advantage of distributed computing
• Interoperability,
• Resource-sharing among team members in the
  project group,
• Scalability of the project component, since the
  component can be extent and reused,
• Portability of the project management system that
  can run in multiple contexts.

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Objective

• DPM using VisiBroker
• Support three main functions of project
  management
• scheduling/tracking system,
• messages board/bulletin board and
• file-sharing system.
• Support two groups of users, the project
  manager/leader and the member.

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Distributed Architecture
LI
MI
LI
Project N (New York)
Project 1 (Dallas)
MI
MI
MI
MI
MI Member Interface LI Leader Interface
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Architecture Application Components
Distributed Project Management Server
Project Info
UI
BB Messages
board
messages
Schedule database
Repository
files
repository
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Application Architecture
Java Application Client
Java ApplicationServer
Object Imp (Servant Code)
Client Proxy (Stub code)
Skeleton Code
ORB class lib
ORB class lib
IIOP
Virtual Machine
Virtual Machine
DB
Client Machine C\gt vbj dpmLogin
Server Machine C\gtosagent C\gtvbj Server