Comment by Torwald
7 months ago
This is well done! The UI, the concept…
Another thing. Regarding the field "effort" it is measured in days, it should IMO be measured in hours, or even better yet be user configurable.
7 months ago
This is well done! The UI, the concept…
Another thing. Regarding the field "effort" it is measured in days, it should IMO be measured in hours, or even better yet be user configurable.
Thanks!
I like your suggestion. I was doubting a lot between hours and days and eventually settled on days because I noticed product managers (in bigco) making rough estimates based on "fractions of FTEs over a quarter", so days are granular enough for me to get my point across, but maybe people prefer to calculate in hours... I think it shouldn't be so hard to make hours/days configurable in the "Effort" modal.
Dump of related thoughts: - Should hours vs. days be a global setting? Or per maintenance plan? - How many hours are in a day? 8? More? Another config? - People can put fractions of a day (like 0.125). Maybe this is fine already?
I think Joels has it right in his assessment of hours vs days: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/03/29/painless-software-...
In another piece somewhere he also states, that the engineer working on the thing should estimate the hours, because everyone has a different skillset and that then relates to the task and how long it takes.
This is a really good find, thanks for that. It's from 2000 and still relevant. Added an issue to support hours: https://github.com/spmvg/open_it_maintenance_planner/issues/...