Like in other chapters we will use a real-world example to demonstrate the functionality of OpenERP's Project Management application. In the silk screen industry, it can be common to have extremely large projects that can span across many types of apparel and print designs. For this example, we are going to create a project to manage creating an entire line of sports jerseys for an organization called Lil League.
When defining our project, it is important to look at the scope of our project and why it will be valuable to use the project manager to organize the various tasks involved. With our Lil League organization, we have multiple teams that can vary in logo design for the team, the number of players, the sizes of the apparel required, and the printing of different players' numbers and even players' names. There are often multiple deadlines to manage and a number of people that may need to approve various phases of the project as they are complete. Using the...