We have 8 people (plus some freelancers) and have about 10-14 open projects at a time. We think in terms of hours (i.e. Rob has 7 hours total for this task, spread out evenly over 3 weeks). In order to make this work in OmniPlan I need to check off every task by hand to make it effort based, and then guess at the percent until it right (5.75) tells me it’s 7 hours.
Many of the features below exist in other software such as Merlin2, but combined with the lack of sharing of resources across projects, these would make day-to-day use of OmniPlan cumbersome for my staff...
Feature Request 1: Have a global pref to make all new tasks “Effort” based by default, instead of “Duration” based.
Feature Request 2: When a task is “Effort” based, if a user enters hours into the “effort” Field, do NOT change the “duration”.
Feature Request 3: When entering “assigned amount” (i.e. 100% of 100% (whatever that means)), allow users to enter time (i.e. 5h). Every time I've asked a programer "what percent are you done with that", they just blink at me, but if I say "how many more hours to get to this milestone" they can give me a number.
Feature Request 4: When showing how far completed a task is, show it based on “Effort” not “Duration”.
Feature Request 5: Allow the “Effort” to be edited, and shown as hours, instead of percents.
Feature Request 6: Provide the ability to always show “Effort” as h and the “Duration” as h/d/w/m
Thanks,
Jason
www.gravityswitch.com
Many of the features below exist in other software such as Merlin2, but combined with the lack of sharing of resources across projects, these would make day-to-day use of OmniPlan cumbersome for my staff...
Feature Request 1: Have a global pref to make all new tasks “Effort” based by default, instead of “Duration” based.
Feature Request 2: When a task is “Effort” based, if a user enters hours into the “effort” Field, do NOT change the “duration”.
Feature Request 3: When entering “assigned amount” (i.e. 100% of 100% (whatever that means)), allow users to enter time (i.e. 5h). Every time I've asked a programer "what percent are you done with that", they just blink at me, but if I say "how many more hours to get to this milestone" they can give me a number.
Feature Request 4: When showing how far completed a task is, show it based on “Effort” not “Duration”.
Feature Request 5: Allow the “Effort” to be edited, and shown as hours, instead of percents.
Feature Request 6: Provide the ability to always show “Effort” as h and the “Duration” as h/d/w/m
Thanks,
Jason
www.gravityswitch.com