I think this thread is interesting and kind of funny, because it reminds me of work where I maintain some systems that keep track of projects for PMs, and I ori

I think this thread is interesting and kind of funny, because it reminds me of work where I maintain some systems that keep track of projects for PMs, and I originally thought my job was to make everything consistent. But there are a whole slew of ways to express the "closedness" or "openness" of a project, and the PMs have evolved conventions where they want to be inconsistent and resist all efforts to make it all make sense. You have a project status which may be in progress or closed or something else. You have a closeout milestone which may be in progress or closed or something else. And you have a time entry code which may be open or closed. But it turns out there is no simple way to make these consistent, because people use inconsistent combinations to express things...but it's hard to tell what.