Project Managers have it hard. Presentation here, plan there. A plan is not a strategy, and a strategy is not set in stone.
One way to make project management easier is to use an AI agent to produce a milestone plan / roadmap. In a format that you use with Microsoft Timeline Analyzer.
You can use any GenAI tool to make a CSV like this:
start_date,end_date,category,facet,content_text
2025-01-15,2025-02-01,DevOps,Milestone 1: Infrastructure Planning,Infrastructure design (3 nodes: 1 control plane + 2 workers), network topology, hardware/VM specs (8GB RAM minimum), OS selection (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS/RHEL 9)
2025-02-02,2025-02-28,DevOps,Milestone 2: Infrastructure Provisioning,Provision VMs/bare metal servers, configure networking (static IPs), setup SSH access, OS hardening, firewall rules (6443/10250/2379-2380/10251-10252)
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- Then edit it, and let the Agent create a keep ticket (Epic in Jira) in sync, including the sub-tickets.
- The CSV can be loaded into Microsoft Timeline Storyteller and can be used for the Wiki and PPT.
Tickets can be updated by modern AI tools like Claude Desktop or specific solutions. Done. Of course you can optimize this with a Picasso-style circle. I am not a PM ;)
Original (MIT licensed):
GitHub - microsoft/timelinestoryteller: An expressive visual storytelling environment for presenting timelines on the web and in Power BI. Developed at Microsoft Research.
An expressive visual storytelling environment for presenting timelines on the web and in Power BI. Developed at Microsoft Research. - microsoft/timelinestoryteller
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Working 2025:
- I just got
claude-codeto revive the codebase a little to host it via Docker- nothing fancy, takes 5 minutes for an agent to revive an old code base
- It should also work on ARM / Silicon macOS systems (experimental).
- The visualizations used to be available in PowerBI, but Microsoft has kicked it out
