TeamworkPM’s Engine Room

Hey All! Thanks for all your great feedback on Twitter (@teamworkpm) and via email, I really appreciate people giving valuable feedback.

So, what have I learned?

• Details matter.
• When tasks are sorted by Due Date, the task is the important bit, the task list is secondary
• When tasks are sorted by Project, the task list is more relevant
• I'm not right all the time ;-)

I have been thinking about this non-stop all night. Peter liked my final version late last night. I liked it late last night but something in the back of my mind wasn't 100% confident that the final direction was the right one. People's feedback indicated that there was more work to be done.

Before I tuck into a massive Easter Feast, I decided to update my work last night taking the feedback into consideration and this is the result:

• If you sort by Project, you now get the view I decided on last night
• If you sort by Date, you get an improved view of version 2 that I threw away last night.

Sort By Project

Sort By Date

You'll also notice that Peter (after we discussed the issue last night) has made a great job of improving the aesthetics of the task listing view. The person responsible is moved to the end now and not BOLD so the tasks are easier to digest and look neater. There is another very good reason for doing this, assigning to multiple people. Once we are finished, you will see "You & 3 more" or "4 people...." and we needed to refactor the listing so we can move in that direction. It will be a thing of beauty!

Once we are 100% happy and the feature is live, we'll do a nice blog post on the main blog on the new changes. This blog (Engine Room) is a great sounding board and is a more personal blog than the formal blog.

Happy Easter Everybody! We like 2 kinds of presents: Easter Eggs and iPad's ;-)

Dan.