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Activities Taking Less Than a Day

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27 Mar 2019 14:54 #7 by gohrner
Thanks for your answer.

babynus wrote:

How can I deal with Acitivities which will only take about a few hours at most?

You can : just enter assigned work as hours... Planning will take it into account.
Don't mind about duration : projector always calculate durtion in days... so smallest duration is 1 day, even if it really takes 1 hour.


Ok.

However this means that Activities estimated to take only 1 or 2 hours cannot be used in planning as such - for planning, they will always take at least about a day, right?

babynus wrote:

Are Activities supposed to be larger chunks of work? If so, how do I model small "Activities" in ProjeQtor?

Yes. It is plroject management, not exploitation management.
Good scale for tasks, in my opinion is 5-10 days.


Ok.

So if I have a bunch of smaller issues / todos, I could combine them into a single, larger Activity and document them there.

However, I then would have to manually keep track about the resolved and still open TODOs within this Activity. An example would be an Activity which has 10 sub-TODOs.

I'm also not quite sure how I would handle it if those TODOs are actually implemented / execute by different Resources which I do not exactly know before - an Activity is always assigned to a single responsible Resource, I think...

Maybe I could use Tickets to model this? Those could then also be linked to an Activity for time/effort tracking, if I understood the manual correctly?

How is it handled in this case if the tickets are assigned to and resolved by different resources - will the Activity stay unassigned, or will each Ticket have to be linked to an Activity assigned to the same responsible Resource as the Ticket?

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27 Mar 2019 18:47 #8 by babynus

However this means that Activities estimated to take only 1 or 2 hours cannot be used in planning as such - for planning, they will always take at least about a day, right?

No, duration will be displayed as 1 day, but planned work will take just 1 or 2 hours.

So if I have a bunch of smaller issues / todos, I could combine them into a single, larger Activity and document them there.
However, I then would have to manually keep track about the resolved and still open TODOs within this Activity. An example would be an Activity which has 10 sub-TODOs.
Maybe I could use Tickets to model this? Those could then also be linked to an Activity for time/effort tracking, if I understood the manual correctly?

This is exactly why we have "Tickets".
You plan an activity to treat tickets.
You enter detail TODO on a dedicated ticket.
You link the ticket to the activity (with planning activity flied)
You enter work directly on ticket, it is automatically subtracted from left work on planning activity.

How is it handled in this case if the tickets are assigned to and resolved by different resources - will the Activity stay unassigned, or will each Ticket have to be linked to an Activity assigned to the same responsible Resource as the Ticket?

You just have one activity. All ressources are assigned to the acitivity. Each resource enter some real work on the ticket... That's easy (see button "Dispatch work" for more detailed input mode)

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27 Mar 2019 19:58 #9 by gohrner

babynus wrote:

However this means that Activities estimated to take only 1 or 2 hours cannot be used in planning as such - for planning, they will always take at least about a day, right?

No, duration will be displayed as 1 day, but planned work will take just 1 or 2 hours.


I'll then probably use the "Tickets linked to an Activity" approach in the future.

But just to make sure I understood you correctly:

This is possible also for future estimation / planning, before any work has been booked on / assigned to this Activity?

Possibly I still haven't understood some concepts correctly then - as the screenshot I have posted shows, I can only enter estimated efforts in whole days, not hours.

So how to I specify an estimated amout of, say, 2 hours for an Activity, so it's considered with only 2 hours during planning?

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27 Mar 2019 20:02 #10 by gohrner
And, another question:

What happens with Tickets which are not assigned to any Activity?

How (if at all) are those considered during planning,

and where does the real work time assigned to those end up?

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27 Mar 2019 23:25 #11 by babynus
The idea with palnning activity is that you don't plan only 2 hours.
You plan activity for several tickets (let's say tickets for a month or for a year)
Then you plan the activity "regular between dates" to book time to work on tickets you don't even know.
When you have the ticket you register it, treat it and enter real work on the ticket (in hours if you wish).
Time spend on ticket is decreased from left work on activity.

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27 Mar 2019 23:26 #12 by babynus
Tickets not linked to a planning activity are just not planned.
Real work is counted on the project, but not on an activity.

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