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Added by Wayne Phipps over 8 years ago
I don’t know if this is already achievable within OpenProject but what we’d like to do is to have a discussion/conversation within a project to collaborate ideas.
Even (as an example) if a business project was some integration with another system, we may encounter technical issues which eventually force us to put any given project on hold. If in a years time our Sales Team want the technical team to re-examine integration, it would be nice where we could see the problems/conversations/messages which led to the original project being put on hold.
You know how it goes:
Sales Team want this integration or that feature, should cost x but increase sales in sales or customer reach by y
Technical Team evaluate, turns doesn’t do this and only does that so it wont work in certain scenarios
In a years time, obviously the costs change and features get enhanced so we need to take another look.
Fist we need to check progress on the previous issues before possibly reconsidering integration
We’d like to have these conversations within a project space so we can better collaborate or even reflect back without having to scour through emails or track back through our memories even trying to remember who had what problem, who was even involved, who sad that. Accurately recalling the exact issues down the line can be a nightmare and wastes so much time.
Can we solve this with OpenProject or is this more suited to Basecamp or something?
Replies (2)
Hello Wayne,
did you have a look at the meeting plugin for OpenProject?
It allows you to create meetings (including agenda and minutes), invite users and - if you want - send the agenda or minutes to invitees and attendees by email.
Depending on your objectives it may be a good option - especially if you plan to prepare and track the results from your Jour Fixes (which may be relevant for the scenario you describe).
You can find further information regarding available plugins for OpenProject in the plugin overview .
Best,
Robin
Hi Wayne
There are a couple of ways to keep discussions and issues lists.
the most intuitive would be to use the Backlogs plugin
it has a storyboard approach, you can gather the requirements in storyboard fashion and assign business requirements to a new project and keep others in a backlog….hence, as long as you do not delete the project, you can revisit these issues or backlogs.
There is plenty of options to create wiki’s within a project or use a document library as well. So you can attach the detailed analysis also.
cheers
Brendan