So OmniGraffle might be used for diagramming, or wireframing, or laying out a floor plan, whereas OmniPlan is used almost entirely by project managers to help them schedule and budget their projects.īrent: Is there a specific methodology or school of thought or anything that it adheres to? OmniFocus, for instance, was very GTD-focused, at least originally.Īinsley: So OmniPlan started over 11 years ago with just a Gantt chart, which is typically used I think in more waterfall style project management. And OmniPlan, unlike some of our other applications, has a pretty specific use case. So OmniPlan is a project management application, which means I am the product manager of a project management app.Īinsley: Which is a little meta. So what is OmniPlan? It has something to do with project management?Īinsley: Right. Apple tells us what to do then, yeah.Īinsley: But I also have a lot of say in prioritizing crash fixes and bug fixes for a particular release, and whether something might need to go out sooner than we originally planned, that sort of thing.īrent: Okay. Following WWDC, we sort of have our marching orders from Apple, and Ken usually, but on the smaller scale of-īrent: That's true.
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So as the OmniPlan PM, I'm responsible for OmniPlan for Mac and OmniPlan for iOS, more or less determining what work we do on the application, what bugs get priority, but also things like what needs to be documented within the app, helping support out with questions about OmniPlan.īrent: Do you have a lot of say into what goes into a given release and that kind of thing?Īinsley: Kind of depends on what else is going on. So what's a product manager at Omni?Īinsley: So at Omni, which might be very different from the way other companies work, our product managers are responsible for sort of the entire application. In this case, that stands for product manager.īrent: Product manager. Oh, wow, then certainly, it stands for prime minister.Īinsley: No. Now you're the OmniPlan PM and I'm fairly sure, 'cause I don't know the answer, that PM stands for prime minister.īrent: You are Canadian. In the studio with me today is Ainsley Bourque Olson, OmniPlan PM at the Omni Group. Hey, Aaron, get in here and play your jingle. Get to know the people and stories behind the Omni Group's award-winning productivity apps for Mac and iOS. Brent: You're listening to the Omni Show.
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