Forum OpenACS Q&A: How general to make the tool?

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Posted by Carl Coryell-Martin on
Re: Ben's suggestion that tasks incorporate design, implement, test phases.

I can appreciate that might make it more powerful for certain kinds of management (and certainly for the person/team developing it). I come from a physics/engineering background where many of my tasks were not coding oriented. I get antsy making things _that_ domain specific. I would love to offer this to my friends who build instruments as a tool for them also.

maybe there is an opportunity for some meta-tasks that allow sub tasks to be presented several different ways. (this sounds like a usability nightmare...)

I still want to log hours spent on each phase (and when) to improve project estimating skills and that could make the data model ugly if each sub-task were not atomic.

I haven't looked at the bits datamodel yet, but I will as soon as I get Aolserver3.0.0 to interpret .tcl files. 😊