Hi All,

We will provide ETA when we will actually start working on this part and status here will be changed to ‘started’.

Thanks
Igor

Hi All,

In preparation to draft a specification for dev team I started a discussion in Freedcamp project where we discuss feature and MVP versions of them with our customers.

If you want to follow or influence this feature roadmap please forward this email to igor@freedcamp.com or reply here to be added to this conversation in Freedcamp.

Thanks
Igor

What do you think of this type of reminders?

Handy/silly or should be optional?

Task A – you estimated 24 hours and due date is in 3 days, however you spent on this task on average 3 hours a day.

Freedcamp will send a message: “You will need to work on Task A at least 5 hours on average to complete it on time, if your estimation is correct”

Thanks
Igor

Hi,

It is a long email. If you are still using Freedcamp please respond.

Let’s assume that we have ability to:

a) add time you worked on a task like:

5 Dec 2015 16:00-18:00 2hrs – Optional description is given here

b) if you use Time Tracking application in your project in Freedcamp you will also see your tasks in it and you can use timers to start/pause/resume and track time from it and your updates will be visible in Tasks

Now my questions are about estimated time and % of completion which should be derived from time data.

Question 1. As you probably know, we do not allow ‘guest’ users to change anything except a status in Tasks they haven’t created. So expected time will work the same way – all people unless they are ‘guests’ and a task is not created by them CAN edit expected time. Any objections?

Question 2. If to show percentage based on 100 hours estimated and 50 hours spent – 50% is easy. What if 100 hours expected and 130 hours already spent? What is percentage of completion here?

May be we can postpone worrying about % completion based on estimate vs actual time just because estimate is estimate and it does not tell that task is 50% completed just because your estimate can be wrong?

Question 3 What do you think of Evidence Based Scheduling – http://help.fogcreek.com/7676/evidence-based-scheduling-ebs
Adjusting estimate as you go IF a task scope did not change is dangerous because system can eventually tell how accurate you are and predict project completion. If you set own estimates and you constantly adjust – system will not be able to predict realistic project completion for you.

Instead of debating about ways to calculate % completion we can report:

A) Tasks completed vs In Progress vs Not Started – very basic

B) Tasks on track vs tasks not on track – we can take in account 8 hours daily work, see how many hours already completed, when is a due date and if it still can be completed by due date – task is fine, if not – highlight it. I think this is the best way to see that tasks are on track.

C) Tasks over estimate. Estimated 12 hours, already spent 20 and still In Progress.

D) Team load – how many tasks assigned to each person and how many hours a day they need to do to complete them all to see who is overloaded and who is not.

E) Anything else?

To summarise:

a) do we need expected/estimate time?

b) if we do need it – it has to be an optional feature admins can turn on. Account owner can say – turn on by default in all new projects – we still want to keep system very basic for starters.

c) do we need to calculate %completion

d) what reports are needed with estimate and % completioin or without them.

Thanks
Igor

Hi,

Thank you for voting for “A complete track timer” feature in Freedcamp. We are hoping you are still using our system. If not – check it out – we are finally in a full time mode from April and already rolled two new updates:

http://freedcampapp.com/email/w/wPE2czCRP3763McHcm4sTrWg/3A4H8f5LeWWVU8SXK95Niw/dDMOMpHCRgZTqom7QVk60g

http://freedcampapp.com/email/w/JxCzKOa1TKw08929watNmpig/3A4H8f5LeWWVU8SXK95Niw/Q9X0P2YLP3Ag58t763xfEqJg

As to progress calculation, it can be a few approaches. One of them is very simple – one TODO out of 5 completed in a project or a milestone will be 20% completion. Additionally difficulty scores can be added here and will be taken in account when we calculate % of a project or a milestone completion. I assume Milestones are integrated with TODOs. Ability to link TODOs and Milestones is coming up very soon.

Another one will be to allow TODO assignees to update % of completion. Yet another one, which will be possible with our TODO and Time Tracking integration, is when you can set expected hours, track hours with TODO timed logs and calculate % automatically for a TODO and a Milestone.

So in short – TODOs and Milestones integration is coming in soon but as to tracking progress, we have not decided yet how to make in a way to make it possible for everyone to select tracking method, which suits you and ability to select it in a simple way.

Please tell us what should be default and what should be available and what you use.

Please reply here or directly to me igor@freedcamp.com

Thank you
Igor