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3 falcon projects tasks12/3/2023 We already learned one way to tackle this by using the property reschedule: true in an update for a task/milestone. But is there a way to change this behaviour? And can TaskFalcon also warn me if the end date of a task is changed? I guess Abby and Webby now need to get together to solve this issue - but that’s outside the scope of this tutorial.ĭefault behaviour of TaskFalcon and how to change itĪs we have seen in the previous chapter, by default, TaskFalcon will warn you when an update moves a dependant milestone. # Terminal > falcon -show-closed-tasks -no-tasks -max-depth 0 all-projects.yaml task: T1 name: Software design # priority: 200 # Removed change of priority here efforts: 5d assign: MobileDev+BackDev - task: T2 name: Create Backend efforts: 5d depends: T1 assign: BackDev - task: T3 name: Create Mobile App efforts: 8d depends: T1 assign: MobileDev - task: T4 name: Testing efforts: 2d depends: T2, T3 assign: MobileDev,BackDev - task: T5 name: Customer Review depends: T4 length: 5d efforts: 4h assign: MobileDev.1hSupportPerDay - milestone: M1 name: Delivery depends: T5 updates: # All updates start with an update section, which contains a list of updates - update: # Each individual update contains a specific date tasks: # An update can contain changes to tasks and/or resources - task: T1 # A task inside an update needs to be referred to with a fully qualified task identifier priority: 200 # Inside the task setting, you can change any task property you like Start: name: My First Mobile App imports: And if you have deliveries planned and communicated with a customer, those releases might get moved without a warning and maybe without someone noticing it until it is too late. Since the past has already happened, it will probably deviate from the plan and it is likely to affect the future as well. This can result in changes that can alter the past and the future (again - for TaskFalcon past and future means nothing - at least with what we’ve learned so far). TaskFalcon can not see when you’ve changed something in your project file, in order to decide whether an implicit change was intended or not. TaskFalcon always sees the whole set of tasks and schedules it from the beginning to the end. When TaskFalcon schedules your project plan, it doesn’t matter whether the project lies in the past, present or future. The main problem here is that Webby might not even notice this delay until it is too late and she has to confess to her customer that she can’t deliver on time for reasons completely out of her control.ĭon’t change things directly you wouldn’t know right from the beginning While you could say this was to be expected, it actually is a problem. In this case it’s just by one day - but I’m sure you can imagine that it could have gone worse easily. Of course, since TaskFalcon can not magically create more resources (I’m working on it - but don’t expect results soon…), Abby’s changes have delayed Webby’s delivery day. Or is it? Let’s have a look again at Webby’s project plan. Now Abby tries to tweak her project plan to speed up the delivery of her project by increasing the priority, as we did in the previous tutorial.Īwesome, Abby improved her delivery date by 10 days. Let’s now assume Webby already communicated the delivery milestone on 1st of July to her customer. After Abby created her project plan for the mobile application the two plans looked like this: We will call them Webby, who is taking care of the website project and Abby, who is taking care of the mobile application. Let’s imagine there are two project managers using TaskFalcon. In the section Tweaking projects to meet deadlines, we’ve changed the priority of a task to meet a deadline. Let’s have another look at the previous tutorial. Seriously - I want to know!įor everyone else: The art of tracking a project helps to detect resource problems or slipped deadlines in advance to bring things back on track or escalate problems early on. If you are in this situation, feel free to stop here and let me know where you are living and what business you’re in. In a perfect world, when there is no change in circumstances and everything always works out as planned, you probably wouldn’t need this. You might wonder what this tutorial is about, since you already know how to schedule a multi-project scenario. Going through this tutorial will take approximately 30 minutes.
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