Projects

We will use projects as containers for:

• customers
  • one project for customer's on going development
  • long running large projects may have their own project
• our own products and services
  • one project per product / service, e.g. ChecklistService, Conneo Print Uploader, etc

Phases / Milestones / Features / Tasks

To group a set of tasks or features, on the main level of a project we normally start with a Phase line. This Phase gets its start and finish dates from it's children.

For the promised deadlines we use Milestones as children of a Phase task

Features are used for software development tasks

Tasks are used for all other tasks, like "Check backup", "Call customer X", etc

In general a structure could look like this:

• [Phase] 123456 Andi: Implement new module for storing information
  • [Milestone] [CUST Test] deliver at customer test environment
  • [Milestone] [CUST Production] deliver at customer production environment
  • [Feature] Implement backend for storing information
  • [Feature] Implement frontend for entering information
  • [Task] Schedule meeting with customer

Project dashboard

In the Conneo main project there is a Work Package list named "Projects". It shows all open Phase and Milestone work packages grouped by project.

This gives a good overview of the work we are doing and if deadlines are near or overdue.