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Questions tagged [task-management]

This tag is intended to enclose all tickets related to methods or softwares used to manage team's tasks.

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What factors should determine a task's priority?

Is it common to assign a task's priority based solely on its due date? For example, is the following system valid for all scenarios? Urgent = less than 24 hours High = Not more than 24 hours Medium = 24 to 48 hours Low = within the business…
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Prioritizing WITHIN the priority matrix

Before the Internet, when I ran my own small business, I took a seminar that taught me about using the priority matrix. That was useful, but the second part was even more useful and I'm struggling to remember how to implement it. It had you put your…
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Immediately assign tasks to everyone or task by task?

There are more people working on the project. I created like 50 tasks. The project is programming of an application. I am a project manager here. I have 2 options: Assign all tasks to corresponding person and mark it by priority (1 to 5). If…
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Subtask linking

I have 2 tasks like Task A and B. Task A has 2 Subtask named A1 and A2 and the same for Task B(B1 and B2). Task B1 needs Task A1 to be done befor starting and Task B2 needs Task B1 to be done before starting. Actually I have dozens of these type…
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Determining which domain a problem falls into in the Cynefin framework falls into which domain itself?

The Cynefin framework is a tool to help leaders determine which 'domain' a problem falls into which they seek to solve. Proponents of the framework argue that the approach towards solving a problem should be different depending on which domain the…
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Task states besides "complete" and "incomplete" in TaskJuggler?

I am using TaskJuggler to manage a project. In my particular project, we are doing basic research, so some tasks are not guaranteed to be completed, due to large numbers of unknowns. I would like some way to denote that "we worked on this task,…
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How do I turn off a task if another task is assigned work?

Based on a template. Is there a way to turn off a task if another task has been assigned work? I am in a company that uses massive templates and it would be great to turn off those tasks automatically which won't be performed because of work type.…
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