The weekly goal was an option carried over from the Hierarchal Method; that just got grafted into the CSA.
It simply affects Urgency; and it's from before the urgency slider was added. It was a way to make something urgent. It's going to be very sensitive to outline depth. It was designed to drive things deep in the outline to the top and it's a very old feature. The best thing would probably to remove it's effect from computed score all together the way monthly and weekly are ignored. If you really need to boost a project you should move the urgency slider these days as that is the proper way. The weekly goals is redundant and flawed from the perspective of the CSA and that's why the urgency slider was created. I have to think about that; and review with Andrey; it's a one line change to the algorithm; I don't very much that we'd enhance it to do anything else as it's after all redundant. ..... but I could see having the Weekly goal checked magically move the urgency slider up 1 full notch but that would probably freak out a percentage of the user base. We could probably do that transparently under the hood without anyone noticing and get the desire effect; with the cavet that if you maxed out the urgency slider AND check the weekly goal; the weekly goal would have no effect as you'd already be at the max setting and you can't go past the max without returning to the original problem you described. Any how that's all code in the gui; so I'll share my thoughts with him on how that could work. On Jul 15, 3:17 am, "Richard Collings" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/myLifeOrganized?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
