Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Tasks & Impediments

Tasks represent work to be done.
A task can belong to a category (such as development, qa, system administration, etc.)
A task can have a work estimate (such as five hours)
A task can have subtasks (groupings and dependencies?)
A task can have comments (which can be about planning, implementation, resolution, etc.)
A task can have a status (such as not started, in progress, complete, blocked)
A task can be blocked by an impediment.

An impediment is something that prevents a task from being done.
If one task depends on another task, the predecessor is not an impediment -- it's being incomplete is the impediment.

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