Re: Is workEffortTypeId "Project Phase" a Iteration

Posted by David E Jones on
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Anil Patel wrote:
> David,
> Should we add another WorkEffortType for Iteration?

My preference for flexibility is that we just use phase for both, and then people can interpret it based on the structure.

For both higher level phases and iterations the general process for managing them will be similar. A classic agile/XP style iteration is just a shorter time period like two weeks as compared to a project phase which may be a few months.

For either one part of setting them up is deciding which tasks from the project in general should go into them, which is why we want a screen that shows a list of all project tasks sorted by priority to make it easy to pick the top few and assign them to a phase (big or small).
 

> Also I understand that
> 1) Sub Project (WE) will be a Project that has a Parent.
> 2) Sub Task (WE) will be a Task that has Parent task.

These terms don't really mean anything when applied to a single WorkEffort, but as you mention only when describing one WorkEffort relative to another WorkEffort. In other words, we would never have a WorkEffortType of "Sub Project" or "Sub Task", these are just WorkEfforts of type Project or Task that are children of another Project or Task.

-David