My own personal view is that I would not like to see MLO try to compete in the area of full scale project management tools. There are all sorts of missing functionality that would need to be implemented to be competitive, including critical path analysis, earned value analysis, Pert and Gantt charts, resource loading, milestone tracking and eventually, inevitably, time reporting and client billing.
I believe that MLO is an industry leading product in personal task management and I would like to see it keep that focus rather than transforming into an inferior player in the project management market. I would like to see MLO provide more support for the ways that an individual person's tasks interact with other people's tasks, including - The ability to tell people about a task (with any subtasks) by creating a printable summary and/or export to calendar - The ability to assign a task (with any subtasks) to a person and let them know, preferably by sending them something that will easily snap into outlook tasks, google tasks, and other task management tools - The ability to receive, retain and track formal replies from the recipient of a task, including task accepted, task rejected, task status update, task completed. From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com [mailto:mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Richard Collings Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 5:56 PM To: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [MLO] Re: Currently I see no future in MLO You raise some interesting points about collaboration/team use using MLO which by co-incidence I was also thinking about today. The conclusion that I came to was that MLO is very much a personal organisational tool that individuals use to manage (and ideally plan) their day to day/hour by hour work. I think it would be very difficult to turn it into a tool in which teams shared a single task hierarchy. I think other tools (web based) are better suited to manage teams and that's the way it should remain. As far as I am aware there are no plans to turn it into a team/corporate tool (but I have no insight here - beyond what Andrey posts). Would be interested in other people's views. Richard From: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com [mailto:mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of motorwayne Sent: 07 November 2012 8:01 PM To: mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com Subject: [MLO] Re: Currently I see no future in MLO IMHO as a project manager with 20+ years of experience using both manual and electronic planning tools, there are definitely some considerations going forward for any business wanting to manage themselves. * Can the tool provide Hierarchical organization of projects? (if needed, they are not always needed) * Can the projects be shared? (if necessary) * Is it eco-system specific? ( i.e.. do I have to tie my entire business and my people to a specific platform ( i.e. windows, Mac, Android etc to use the product) * Will the platform (OS), and the product (software), keep up together? (It is incredibly costly to change systems. The cost is usually in man hours to re-train and then have people screw around trying to figure it out or make it work. Man hours are usually the most expensive item) * What platform helps my people be productive? (Often people struggle with systems) * What platforms will likely be productive in the future? (Obvious one here is "Web interfaces", though both Mac desktop and Windows desktops will remain strong into the future also) * Will a web interface give all the complexity we require? Does it need to? At present as hardware and software change and merge, we're seeing a shift to multiple platforms (OS) being required inside a single business. This can be driven simply by the users desire and or the companies quest to satisfy good employees. Companies want to offer a diverse choice to help their people be productive and happy an retained. The amount of people "working away from the office" is increasing rapidly and this requires either sophisticated VPN or similar tech that someone has to manage (cost to business), or a WEB interface which is far easier for the employee to get on, stay in touch and be productive. I would say that MLO has to offer some sort of supplemental WEB interface in the future, it just has to, there is no getting around it. Cheers -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mylifeorganized/-/DD6JZo8og3wJ. To post to this group, send email to mylifeorganized@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mylifeorganized+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. 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