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ordinal priority
this is the unique selling point of collatodo
There are many CMS (phpwiki), forums (bbPress), blogging tools (WordPress).
None allow maintenance of “ordinal priority” at a user level in a simple/easy manner and display the priority at an aggregated level
see [#JRA-6482] Strict priority for all open issues - Atlassian JIRA
[#JRA-6482] Strict priority for all open issues - Atlassian JIRA
For planning the work on open issues we need to set a strict priority for every open issue. That is, every open issue must either be more important or less important than every other open issue. It is not enough to set one of a finite set of priorities since we need to determine which issue to solve first even if both are Critical. These priorities are global per project. This way of strictly prioritizing issues is at the core of every agile methodology like XP, Crystal, and Scrumm.
This issue is very important to us, and I hope you will give it serious thought.
The whole thread is very informative/interesting
Use collatodo - see example: collatodo United Nations’ Millenium Development Goals
JIRA is a bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management application developed to make this process easier for your team. JIRA has been designed with a focus on task achievement, is instantly usable and is flexible to work with.
If you want to crank up your JIRA for project management, GreenHopper is for you.
Erik Hansen speaks to Matthew Kelly
Sit down and put together a list of 100 dreams. It will be hard work at first, but take a look at the 12 areas: physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, psychological, material, professional, financial, creative, adventure, legacy, and character. Essentially, if you come up with eight dreams in each of those areas, you’ve got your list of 100 dreams.
If you simply write your list of 100 dreams, put it in a drawer, and never look at it ever again, that one experience is life changing.
computer world: 8 Blazing Hot Technologies for 2008
4. Real-time collaboration - Like it or not, workers throughout your company are using outside collaboration tools, such as Google Docs. That means sensitive corporate information may be sitting on outsider servers, rather than behind your firewalls. People are drawn to these tools because they’re easy to use, says Andrew McAfee, an associate professor of business administration in Harvard Business School’s Technology and Operations Management department. IT’s job is to help formulate a policy for using these tools or to implement internal alternatives that are equally user-friendly, McAfee says.
5. Web 2.0 - Lots of people spend their personal time blogging and using other Web 2.0 technologies. Many expect to use the same tools at work, and some already are, with or without IT’s blessing. IT needs to be a leader in championing these tools, McAfee says, by folding them into the existing infrastructure in a way that is convenient for users and works in conjunction with corporate security and privacy requirements. “The smart choice for both the line and IT side is to be positive about this development,” McAfee says.
6. Ideation - The knowledge economy grows on good ideas, and IT needs to provide the tools to help foster and manage them. The good news is that those kinds of tools are increasingly available. “There are online tools that let people post ideas and work on each other’s ideas, and we’re seeing more and more organizations put together platforms to push and develop ideas,” says Jackie Fenn, an analyst at Gartner Inc. in Stamford, Conn.
But IT groups should do more than implement their chosen idea management software, Fenn says. Considering that most innovations have significant IT components, Fenn says, it behooves IT workers to be leaders in the ideation process. You can help manage the process by working with business leaders to pose and frame the right questions to get useful responses and drive innovative thinking.
Why Enterprise 2.0 Won’t Transform Organizations - Harvard Business Online’s Tom Davenport
His [Andrew McAfee] are some of the most interesting thoughts on IT to come out of HBS in a long time, and he’s a nice guy to boot. What he’s trying to do is to bring Web 2.0 technologies into the enterprise, to understand and describe how blogs, wikis, tagging, and other participative tools will change large bureaucracies. He believes they will empower employees, decentralize decisions, free up knowledge, and generally make for better places to work. I share his goal of more democratic organizations and hope he is correct.
However, I fear he is not. Such a utopian vision can hardly be achieved through new technology alone. The absence of participative technologies in the past is not the only reason that organizations and expertise are hierarchical. Enterprise 2.0 software and the Internet won’t make organizational hierarchy and politics go away. They won’t make the ideas of the front-line worker in corporations as influential as those of the CEO. Most of the barriers that prevent knowledge from flowing freely in organizations – power differentials, lack of trust, missing incentives, unsupportive cultures, and the general busyness of employees today – won’t be addressed or substantially changed by technology alone. For a set of technologies to bring about such changes, they would have to be truly magical, and Enterprise 2.0 tools fall short of magic.
I freely admit, however, to one key uncertainty. It’s going to be very interesting to see what happens when the young bucks and buckettes of today’s wired world hit the adult work force. Will they freely submit to such structured information environments as those provided by SAP and Oracle, content and knowledge management systems, and communication by email? Or will they overthrow the computational and communicational status quo with MySpace, MyBlog, and MyWiki?
Planning, Startups, Stories: Does Web 2.0 Make us Dumber?
“Certain studies find that multitasking boosts the level of stress related hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline and wears down our systems through biochemical friction—prematurely aging us. In the short term, the confusion, fatigue and chaos merely hamper our ability to focus and analyze, but in the long term they cause (our brain) to atrophy.”
I want to know the intent of the product Scripting News
We live in the age of DIY, that means if you have something to say, just say it.
From the about collatodo
Google Reader needs GPC « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger
the Google Reader team needs to implement GPC as soon as possible. What’s GPC? Granular Privacy Controls.
If you want to do something that’s going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.
When words like “groupware” and “enterprise” start getting tossed around, you’re doing the latter. You start adding features to satisfy line-items on some checklist that was constructed by interminable committee meetings among bureaucrats, and you’re coding toward an externally-dictated product specification that maybe some company will want to buy a hundred “seats” of, but that nobody will ever love. With that kind of motivation, nobody will ever find it sexy. It won’t make anyone happy.
via jive talks: Enterprise software can be sexy AND useful