Tasks, subtasks and weightage
How work is broken down, assigned and tracked to completion.
A task is one piece of work with an owner and a due date. Tasks are what fills your board, drives capacity, and carries the time you log.
Creating one
New task in the top bar works from anywhere in Orin, and does the same.
A task you start and do not finish is kept as a draft. Draft tasks appears in the top bar only when you have one, so you never lose a half-written task and never see a control reading zero.
Subtasks and weightage
A task can be broken into subtasks. Each subtask carries a weightage: how much of the parent it represents.
Weightage is why a task can be seventy per cent done when three of five subtasks are complete. The three that are finished were the big ones. Without weightage, progress would count steps rather than work, and a task with one enormous final step would sit at eighty per cent for a fortnight.
Weightages are relative, not percentages. If one subtask is twice the work of another, give it twice the number.
Assigning
Assign a task to whoever will do it. The moment you do, it appears on their My Workspace and their committed hours change in Capacity.
Check Capacity before assigning rather than after. Reassigning work somebody has already started planning around costs more than a look at the grid.
Common questions
What is the difference between a task being complete and having no time left on it? Nothing links them. A task is complete when its status says so; logging the estimated hours does not close it, and closing it does not stop you logging more time.
Can two people own one task? No. One owner, so there is never a question of whose plate it is on. Break it into subtasks if two people are genuinely doing different parts.
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