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Project Task Management
I appreciate that Harvest started out as a time tracking tool, but naturally the more we use it, the more we want to do with it. However at some point it becomes infeasible to operate the business without a unifying tool. Right now we seem to have reached the point where tracking tasks on a project has to be done on an assignment basis (i.e., before the work is carried out rather than after/during).
We would need to be able to assign tasks to be completed to a user, on a project/task/description basis, assigning projected time, etc. This could then be picked up by a user, assigned time to it, and eventually marked as completed. This is very simple project management, but it would fit really well with the way Harvest works.
Two questions:
1. Is there an interest for the Harvest team to do this?
2. If so, what are the chances of seeing this in the next 30-90 days?
Robert
Our work-around is to add a unique Task ID tag to each time entry (e.g. “[Task 123]”) and then use some sort of post-processing of time log entries.
Yes, but that doesn’t work as a task assignment, just ties the tasks to an outside project management tool. At this stage, we would move both processes off to a different tool that can handle it all.
Ya, I hear you. I was just telling you our work-around. We use FogBugz for defining and assigning tasks and Harvest for time tracking. Right now, Harvest’s tasks are really types/categories of tasks.
Project Task Management
I don’t think the question is answered correctly!?
But hey – no answer is also an anwser, isn’t it?
I think several companies are deciding to use other solutions caused by the harvest lack of project task management integration.
This is an opportunity!
dsueess
Yes, I agree. You already define the task, project and people. How much more would it take to add a schedule?
What I would suggest is polling 100 clients, to scope out the market opportunity. Hell, I would kick in $500 rather than have to continue to use Basecamp.
Make us the beta tester.
Go big. 37Signals is complacent. There’s a huge opportunity out there.
