Timelines
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- domacle
Hey QBN people,
Need to find a solution for timelines that can be sent to clients but also be shared internally in an efficient/easy to access way?
I've tried calendar type timelines, and while the client loves them they're a bitch to update internally.
iTask is good internally but clients cannot read it. Also tried simple word/excel stuff but again they take an eternity to update.
Just wondering what you guys use? Any help is much appreciated.
Cheers!
- raf0
- kgvs720
I think someone posted this some time ago. I'm not sure though, hope it helps.
- boobs0
Timeline MotherFucker!
- Greedo0
i love how nobody's actually read the first post.
here, lemme yell it:
THE MAN NEEDS TIMELINES TO SEND TO CLIENTS FOR WORK!!!
HE DOES NOT NEED PRETTY PICTURE INSPIRATION!- btw i got nothing. good luck.Greedo
- yeh i honestly only read the title..e-pill
- the title was misleading, it's his own faultraf
- yeh i thought it was a timeline img dump or something...e-pill
- "it happens on a molecular level" Seinfeld said on automatic looks on cleavages. Same with timelines u just dump them.raf
- domacle0
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- raf0
See if this works for you
http://www.basecamphq.com/
- domacle0
just need to represent a timeline whereby milestones are clearly indicated to the client in a very easy to read/digest way, and can be updated internally without having to manually shift everything thereafter if a date is pushed back/missed. itask does the updating part fine, but isn't client ''friendly''
- vaxorcist0
Forgive my rant, but this is from building fairly large web apps....
Any project "timeline" is a fundamental illusion of business. Web development is non-linear, timelines are linear. Mediocre project managers and account people LOVE timelines, because it gives a "comfort and predictability" to what is actually NOT VERY PREDICTABLE... One positive feature about timelines is that it casuses people to STOP ASKING FOR NEW FEATURES after a certain point in time, but that may bite you in the butt later..
Timelines indicate that it's more important to have "something" that is "done on time" ... when this often gives you, well, not quite the right thing, but it's "done on time"
...but then you get this paradox, because client realizes it's not quite the right thing, then asks for more features, but sometimes these new features are like adding wings to a submarine and demanding that the thing fly... all because the "discovery" portion of the god-awful "timeline" was rushed, based on assumptions that turned out to be wrong....
- BuddhaHat0
There was a reeeaaallllly long vertical timeline that took the piss out of the 'earth in 7 days' religious concept. Can anyone point me to it? I've been looking for it and can't seem to find the correct google word combo.
- NoFavorite0
- Side note... I tried to use a screenshot from the 37 signals site and QBN wouldn't allow it. Does QBN have beef with 37 signals?NoFavorite