Are project plans a type of outline?

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Posted by pwolff
1999-08-07 12:20:39

If you’ve used Microsoft Project you know that one of the main features is the ability to traverse your list of tasks, milestones, and groups of tasks in an outline format. Have you seen an outliner other than MSP that comes close? Is there an XML vocabulary/model for outlining or project events/tasks?

To my mind the key difference is the notion of multiple dependency. A leaf may depend on one or more other leafs’ start dates or end dates as the cue for its own start or end date.

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