As far as I can currently tell, I just can't use omniplan in a natural way (for me and my coworkers).
Generally, the way we work is:
1) we generate a list of tasks (with groups),
2) we want to assign a duration to the tasks (more often the groups
[[Here we die because group duration is derived from task; we've been bit by moving something with out a duration to a subtask of an task with a duration, we lose the duration. Our current workaround is to pop in a milestone at the end date :(]]
3) figure out what the duration should be for each task
4) figure out who does which task
5) decide how much effort they need to devote to each task
This just doesn't work. If we struggly get the duration and efforts right, it presumes 100% effort. But we *know* it's not 100% but if we say 50% then the duration goes say from 3 months to 6 months :(
Is there anyway to do our preferred workflow?
Cheers,
Bijan.
Generally, the way we work is:
1) we generate a list of tasks (with groups),
2) we want to assign a duration to the tasks (more often the groups
[[Here we die because group duration is derived from task; we've been bit by moving something with out a duration to a subtask of an task with a duration, we lose the duration. Our current workaround is to pop in a milestone at the end date :(]]
3) figure out what the duration should be for each task
4) figure out who does which task
5) decide how much effort they need to devote to each task
This just doesn't work. If we struggly get the duration and efforts right, it presumes 100% effort. But we *know* it's not 100% but if we say 50% then the duration goes say from 3 months to 6 months :(
Is there anyway to do our preferred workflow?
Cheers,
Bijan.
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