Hello, Just adding to this. This would be a great addition to Teamgantt. For us the three reasons so far to add this would be:
- Recurring meetings (weekly/monthly team meetings)
- Recurring external dates that need to be aligned (our development with client sprint dates)
- Team holiday or unavailability. This can be covered in the resourcing but would be good to be able to add holidays of non-resourced people also.
To possibly answer the problems around percentage, resource and dependencies.
I think it would be a good first step to initiate the task as a percentage of the total days, for example if we have a ten week project with one day per week (lets say each monday) as a team meeting then then the total percentage of the task could be the full ten meeting days, with each 10% complete marking duration of task complete. I think this is similar to how MS project handles this.
The resource (at least initially) I think most people would be happy to have assigned to the task in full, for example, you must have all resources for each of the ten meetings, not being able to change who attends each week.
Dependencies, agreed would be tricky. Would you be able to pull the dependency line from the end of each meeting each week, at each break point. Or would you only allow dependencies against the final completion of the task (all meetings complete). For ease of implementation for a quick fix I think people would be happy to have no dependencies for split tasks, it seems most people simply want to show dates of multiple dated/same tasks like meetings, sprint dates, system review etc. A second release i think would be great to have dependencies on the 100% complete, and another release addressing dependencies on partially complete tasks.
Thats what i would like to see for my projects at any rate. Until then we will be adding 10 tasks called 'weekly meeting' with 10 separate dates. I hope this can get added soon.
fingers crossed! This is a great product, it would be great to make it greater!
Hello, Just adding to this. This would be a great addition to Teamgantt. For us the three reasons so far to add this would be:
- Recurring meetings (weekly/monthly team meetings)
- Recurring external dates that need to be aligned (our development with client sprint dates)
- Team holiday or unavailability. This can be covered in the resourcing but would be good to be able to add holidays of non-resourced people also.
To possibly answer the problems around percentage, resource and dependencies.
I think it would be a good first step to initiate the task as a percentage of the total days, for example if we have a ten week project with one day per week (lets say each monday) as a team meeting then then the total percentage of the task could be the full ten meeting days, with each 10% complete marking duration of task complete. I think this is similar to how MS project handles this.
The resource (at least initially) I think most people would be happy to have assigned to the task in full, for example, you must have all resources for each of the ten meetings, not being able to change who attends each week.
Dependencies, agreed would be tricky. Would you be able to pull the dependency line from the end of each meeting each week, at each break point. Or would you only allow dependencies against the final completion of the task (all meetings complete). For ease of implementation for a quick fix I think people would be happy to have no dependencies for split tasks, it seems most people simply want to show dates of multiple dated/same tasks like meetings, sprint dates, system review etc. A second release i think would be great to have dependencies on the 100% complete, and another release addressing dependencies on partially complete tasks.
Thats what i would like to see for my projects at any rate. Until then we will be adding 10 tasks called 'weekly meeting' with 10 separate dates. I hope this can get added soon.
fingers crossed! This is a great product, it would be great to make it greater!