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This is a cute application that ties many services together and even looks nice. Standing alone, it's almost like having a timeline for the tangible things in y
by spartango 13y ago
This is a cute application that ties many services together and even looks nice. Standing alone, it's almost like having a timeline for the tangible things in your work; I'd actually love to have this summarized, but for no particular reason.
And that's the problem. It's not clear at all what problem this fun application solves. It clearly doesn't capture the flow of work in a team or any individual, simply because it only captures the tangible/digital artifacts of work. You can imagine adding self-reporting or something (ala Yammer), but it's still an incomplete record.
And as other commenters point out, an incomplete dataset is prone to faulty reasoning. An overzealous user might micromanage based only on these tangible artifacts...
In any case, I'd encourage the developers here to think about what specific problem is being solved, and whether this app communicates that well. The information captured might be useful, but I'm unconvinced a timeline presents it properly.
My gut says something about summaries and aggregation, looking not at what's in-flight but what has been done so far.