Assign more persons to a workitem

Mar 7, 2008 5:52pm

thyr 2 post(s)

Is it possible to assign more than one person to a workitem?

Mar 7, 2008 10:48pm

Adam Sanderson administrator 111 post(s)

If you have a workitem that needs to be worked on by more than one person, you might want to break it down. For instance lets say I want to plan rolling out an update to LiquidPlanner. You could say:

Roll out awesome features 5-12 days; assigned to… Oh no, lots of people

But we can break that down to each person’s tasks:

Develop killer feature 4-7 days; assigned to Adam
Write help documentation 1-2 days; assigned to Bruce
Let our users know we’re doing something neat 2-4 days; assigned to Melinda

We actually think this is a really good practice, in fact.

Does that help?

Mar 8, 2008 12:07am

thyr 2 post(s)

Thank you for your fast answer! Your solutions covers the most situations.

But there is still one I can’t solve easily:

Imagine there is a workshop of some days. Adam, Bruce and Melinda have to attend to this workshop. That means, they can’t work on an other workitem.

The only possibility I actually can see is to assign the workshop to Adam and set the “delay until” date for the first workitems of Bruce and Melinda behind the wokshop.
Quite difficult but a way to go.

Or maybe I only have to stretch Bruce and Melinda’s workitems for the duration of the workshop?

But thanks a lot for clarifying, that there’s no secret button to add more than one person to a task. :)

Mar 8, 2008 1:30am

Charles Seybold administrator 131 post(s)

I think Adam is offline, so I’ll jump in… We have a feature on our backlog to add things like events and vacations into the plan and have the work flow around them. Right now, you’d have to fake it with tasks. I’d make it sub-project container for the workshop and add the attendees.

Note, if your goal is to manage commitments (promise dates) another way to do this is just create a task for the workshop with an estimate of 2-2 days (no uncertiany) and just move to about the right spot in the project priority list. It does not actually have to be at a specific date for the probablistic math to add up right.

For example:

[#] "Workshop May 15-16"    promise date=5/17
    () Bruce 2-2 days
    () Melinda 2-2 days
    () Adam 2-2 days

Thanks for checking in with us; happy to help :)

Mar 7, 2008 5:52pm thyr 2 post(s)	Is it possible to assign more than one person to a workitem?

Mar 7, 2008 10:48pm Adam Sanderson administrator 111 post(s)	If you have a workitem that needs to be worked on by more than one person, you might want to break it down. For instance lets say I want to plan rolling out an update to LiquidPlanner. You could say: Roll out awesome features 5-12 days; assigned to… Oh no, lots of people But we can break that down to each person’s tasks: Develop killer feature 4-7 days; assigned to Adam Write help documentation 1-2 days; assigned to Bruce Let our users know we’re doing something neat 2-4 days; assigned to Melinda We actually think this is a really good practice, in fact. Does that help?

Mar 8, 2008 12:07am thyr 2 post(s)	Thank you for your fast answer! Your solutions covers the most situations. But there is still one I can’t solve easily: Imagine there is a workshop of some days. Adam, Bruce and Melinda have to attend to this workshop. That means, they can’t work on an other workitem. The only possibility I actually can see is to assign the workshop to Adam and set the “delay until” date for the first workitems of Bruce and Melinda behind the wokshop. Quite difficult but a way to go. Or maybe I only have to stretch Bruce and Melinda’s workitems for the duration of the workshop? But thanks a lot for clarifying, that there’s no secret button to add more than one person to a task. :)

Mar 8, 2008 1:30am Charles Seybold administrator 131 post(s)	I think Adam is offline, so I’ll jump in… We have a feature on our backlog to add things like events and vacations into the plan and have the work flow around them. Right now, you’d have to fake it with tasks. I’d make it sub-project container for the workshop and add the attendees. Note, if your goal is to manage commitments (promise dates) another way to do this is just create a task for the workshop with an estimate of 2-2 days (no uncertiany) and just move to about the right spot in the project priority list. It does not actually have to be at a specific date for the probablistic math to add up right. For example: `[#] "Workshop May 15-16" promise date=5/17 () Bruce 2-2 days () Melinda 2-2 days () Adam 2-2 days` Thanks for checking in with us; happy to help :)

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