Hi Bob - you wrote:
>
> The depth of the outline really shouldn't come into play
> UNLESS you use the WEEKLY GOAL setting. The weekly goal
> applies a HUGE boost and that does cascade down because
> that's the original design intent. It was the HOLLY CRAP
> feature to make something POP to the top.
>
> If you don't use that weekly goal (never like that myself);
> things inherit correctly; whenever someone has an outline
> that is out of whack I usually find they have a item near the
> top with aggressive importance or urgency which propagates
> down a really deep tree. Which is what it was designed to do;
> and it is simply a case that that user just didn't expect the
> impact to be so strong. Lower the priority cascade down too
> but people always see to over look LOWERing the importance to
> balance the outline... any how I digress.
Thanks for this explanation.
As I remember it, it was the use of the weekly goal that was causing the
problem and specifically that the Weekly Goal boost that is applied
recursively.
I asked at the time what the business logic was behind this - and nobody
could supply an answer.
>From memory, if you have a situation like this:
Project A
Task 1
Task 2
Task 3
Task 4
And you apply the Week Goal to Project A, then Task 1 gets boosted by the
Weekly Goal factor twice and Tasks 3 and 4 get boosted three times which
makes it impossible to bring Task 1 in front of Tasks 3 and Task 4. I
was (and still am) totally bemused by this - why should Tasks 3 and 4 be
more important than Task 1 - the fact that Task 2 logically breaks down into
two smaller tasks does not automatically make those tasks more important, in
my view. And when I asked on the board previously, nobody could explain
why this was. And nobody said, please don't change this, I find it really
useful because .....
So it seems that we have a feature which causes lots of problems to new
users, which some people hate (me!) and which nobody uses/defends. Am I
missing something? Incidentally, what does HOLLY CRAP mean!!
Is there any chance of getting this changed? Or at least making it an
option. For me, the Weekly Goal boost is useful but it should just boost
all the tasks to which it applies equally.
Regards
Richard
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