Is anyone effectively using the Projects module for actual work? Specifically, I’m looking for anyone tracking an agile development project through this interface.
On the surface, ther seem to be myriad issues. Biggest among them, IMO, are:
- Default List view settings leave insufficient room for the Subject
- All child objects are ‘Tasks’. There’s no ability to create Epics, Features, or User stories and nest them accordingly.
- There’s no concept of backlogs or versions out of the box, therefore it’s not possible to fully manage the project through its lifecycle.
- Project IDs (eg., PROJ-0001) are used by default instead of project names. This seems like a human-hostile decision.
- As with other list views, the Task list view wastes precious column real-estate on the Task ID field. Worse, in the default view, even on a wide monitor, the last digits of the Task ID are chopped off with elipses. The only usable part of the ID is not displayed.
Yes, I realize that I can create a bunch of doctypes to track the additional data but if the UI doesn’t understand the concept of Epic / User Story relationships, you just end up with flat lists of things and it’s not intuitive.
I’m hoping that I’m just overlooking something.