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1.3-rc2 / error while starting timeclock from task view (fixed)

« on: March 18, 2009, 01:57:07 am »

Query failed with message 'Unknown column 'log_data' in 'field list''

same issue also exists when trying to start timeclock from the task list view.

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Ideas / Resource Allocation Report

« on: March 17, 2009, 03:32:08 am »

another 'useful' report? would be awesome if we were able to see what tasks all of our human resources were allocated to during a specific time / date period. right now it's impossible from within openGoo to tell whether a developer is actually available for a project / task or not.

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Ideas / Project Velocity / Estimation probability simulation

« on: March 17, 2009, 02:58:51 am »

joel spolsky from fogbugz calls it 'Evidence Based Scheduling' ...

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html

 it's really just graphing estimation accuracy history for tasks using Monte Carlo Simulation / Analysis. bottom line is that it would be great to get a handle on the accuracy of our estimates and be able to see visually how well we're doing with it so that we can improve. in the same way that fogbugz does it... i want to see the probability that we're going to meet a certain deadline based on previous estimate history and accuracy from our developers. one thing that would probably need to change within openGoo to accomodate this... is that we'd need to identify 'who' actually created the estimate for a task. generally we allow our own developers to create the estimates for tasks that are assigned to them.... but currently in openGoo there is no way to identify who was actually responsible for the estimate on the task (unless you're just looking strictly at who the task was assigned to and consider this, but what if multiple people are assigned to a task, or the task assignment is changed?). if we were doing true estimation probability simulations... it would be good to base those projections on the numbers generated by previous estimates / completed task time from all project assignees for the current project.

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Ideas / Critical Path and Resource Leveling

« on: March 17, 2009, 02:42:40 am »

some reporting functionality would be nice within openGoo. i would love to see critical path reporting including availability of resources based on projects / tasks they are already assigned to. this goes back to another request i made for better employee management where it would be great if we knew:

1) the cost of the employee / contractor
2) the total daily / weekly / monthly available hours of the employee / contractor
3) the current workload of the employee / contractor (based on assigned tasks and estimated time)

and... if we knew these things along with the task dependencies... (assuming that projects / tasks / sub-tasks were setup as proper dependencies)... CPM would not be difficult to code a report for with resource leveling built in. (at least for human resources)

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Feature requests / Re: Bug reporting in OpenGoo

« on: March 17, 2009, 01:53:30 am »

that's exactly what we're missing, the ability to filter time reports by tags. this would be perfect for reporting on non-warranty vs. warranty work. (billable vs. non-billable)

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Ideas / Email Parsing for Inbound Tasks (like support ticketing)

« on: March 16, 2009, 07:01:48 pm »

Most of our clients send emails with instructions for bug fixes or feature requests rather than entering them into openGoo themselves. It would be handy if openGoo could parse those emails and create tasks out of them, replying to the user with the task ID.

there are some other issues that present themselves here so far as workflow as well... approving tasks, assigning tasks, etc... perhaps a default assignee?

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Ideas / Re: Roadmap 2009 needed, yes?

« on: March 16, 2009, 06:44:47 pm »

as we add features on our side, what is the best way to:

a) contrib
b) avoid conflicts from code updates from your side?

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Ideas / Re: Roadmap 2009 needed, yes?

« on: March 13, 2009, 12:22:36 am »

we're looking at starting development of some of our own feature needs within OpenGoo ... and so having a legitimate roadmap would be very handy so that we know what stuff we should spend the time contributing and what stuff we should wait for your team to handle.

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Ideas / better employee management

« on: March 13, 2009, 12:02:56 am »

one of the things that is a challenge within our organization is that since we are using a large number of outsourced contractors, it is sometimes difficult to manage and validate skillsets. even ranking certain contractors according to ability or performance would be very useful.

even better would be if we were able to choose the skillsets needed for a particular project or task, and prior to assigning team members having the option of first choosing from the available users who is best suited to the task by availability, previous performance, and ability.

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Feature requests / Re: Multiple assignments for one task

« on: March 12, 2009, 11:39:25 pm »

i second this. we will frequently have many people working on the same task, and right now in openGoo the only work-around that we have is to create a separate task of the same description for multiple users. otherwise we can't track the time for each team member.

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Feature requests / Re: User Time Tracking

« on: March 12, 2009, 11:37:58 pm »

why not just use www.odesk.com if you're concerned.

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Feature requests / Re: Bug reporting in OpenGoo

« on: March 12, 2009, 11:31:56 pm »

this would be fine if we could search timesheets by tag. we warranty bugfixes, and need the ability to report on time spent on non-warranty work so that we can bill for it properly.