New Perspectives on Interactivity in Project Management Tools

Software tools for project management are extremely complex desktop applications. Recently, we observe a shift from traditional project management where one project manager is responsible for creating the project plan and supervising its execution, towards a more agile multi-project management that involves project members early in the planning process. This shift demands the introduction of novel visualization and interaction techniques. This contribution summarizes our analyses of three typical scenarios and shows promising perspectives for the application of new interaction and visualization techniques. Our goal is to promote project management as an interesting and multifarious subject within HCI research.