Projects

Plan the work, and Projects tells you when each project will finish and whether it makes its due date. Projects is early: it covers planning and scheduling, and more is coming.

How work moves

You plan a project, Continual schedules it, and the people who own its tasks move them to done.

1. A project names an outcome, an owner, and a due date, such as "Open the Denver office".
2. Its tasks are the work, each with an owner and a duration in working days.
3. A dependency says what a task waits for, such as another task's finish.
4. Continual times every task from those, and forecasts when the project finishes.

When you connect GitHub, your repositories, pull requests, and issues sync in beside your projects, so you can follow the code work that delivers them.

What Continual does here

Continual schedules every project with the critical path method, working Monday to Friday from today. It writes each task's scheduled dates and slack, marks the tasks with no slack Critical, and sets each project's Forecast finish. It marks a project Late when its tasks cannot finish by its due date.

It schedules again when a task or dependency changes, and each day, since tasks not yet started move with today. It also marks each unfinished task Ready or Blocked. See Tasks for how.

Metrics

Projects adds four metrics under Metrics: Open tasks, Tasks done, Cycle time, and Age of open tasks. Each is a sum of what your tasks record as their status changes, so you can open the tasks behind any number.

• Which projects will miss their due date?Copy
• What is on the critical path for SOC 2 Type II readiness?Copy
• Add a 3-day task to SOC 2 Type II readiness to write the incident response policy, after the tabletop exercise.Copy

Who can do what

Everyone in your organization can start a project. Whoever starts one owns it, and only they see it until they share it, with people or with everyone. An Editor can change the project, its tasks, and their dependencies; a Viewer reads them. Everyone who works in Projects can read the synced GitHub records.

Records

Projects keeps six kinds of record. Each page explains how the record works and lists its fields.

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