DISQUS

Great interview with Bruce Henry of LiquidPlanner - thanks! Per your question on the video, YES, you should break these interviews out so people can link to them. I don't want to have to tell people to "click here" and "fast forward" to minute 24:00.

C.

Thanks Mike,

We wondered why nobody had solved this problem either and decided we could serve the world better by making an innovative PM tool rather than another "innovative" video sharing service.

Your point on performance is a good one. Actually building a snappy web app is quite a trick. Particularily when you are aiming to go head-to-head with desktop applications and can be dealing with thousands of tasks at a professional level of planning. For instance, we had to figure out how to make all the rescheduling asynchronious so that you could keep on editing while we crunch through all the probability curves.

You have to approach the problem from multiple angles, the architecture, the page optimization, and the UI design. It's key to study the end-to-end activities that people do and consider the whole picture so that ultimatly, people can spend less time planning and more time doing what it is they do.

Charles, CEO, LiquidPlanner Inc.

Hi Paul - Thanks for noting LiquidPlanner. It's tough to describe a concept like revolutionizing the Gantt chart and building a product around it a 6 minute demo. It's not your standard consumer software which is what is mostly seen at UTR. The LiquidPlanner schedule is designed to look familiar, but it functions in a dramatically different way than a typical Gantt. I would be happy to setup a web conference with you if you'd like a briefing. Key things you'll see include: capturing uncertainty, seeing effects of uncertainty on dependant and independant chains, automatic tracking, and how (by capturing every change) the system builds up a data warehouse of project information that can be leveraged to help organizations learn how to be better estimators.

Best Regards, Charles, CEO | LiquidPlanner.