Idea for dependencies

Nothing I hate more than the tangled web of dependency linked lines in MS Project and the like. I think that there is a nicer way to model this in the Gant Chart.

For a task that has dependencies create a virtual project that contains all preceding tasks. Essentially soft links to the real tasks. When the little “dependents” icon is clicked it could unroll this virtual project showing all the associated tasks/project in proximity to the real one.

This would make writing milestones easier. I like to order all my features in a hierarchical structure but then want to view them grouped by milestone. The milestones behave like virtual projects with some color coding or icon to suggest that this is only a soft link.

Cheers

Brad

PS: I just convinced my team to use the tool :)

Ok I see I am working slightly orthogonal to the LiquidPlanner way. I should be grouping my functional behaviour by categories. Projects are time based ordering. AND I just figured out I can do nested categories. VERY NICE. I’ll reorder my project and be on my way. That kind of removes my requirement in my top post.

Brad

Great, glad to see you discovered the Project/Category dichotomy, we wrestled with that a lot while developing LiquidPlanner. The way we set up milestones is to create Projects for each milestone, and then optionally break them down into smaller segments as sub Projects. Then we categorize our work in the categories tree.

Our main goal with this release was to get functional dependencies in place. We will be exploring ways to visualize and work with them more easily in future releases, so by all means let me know how they work for you.