Comments on: ResultsManager In-trays

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:03:45 +0000

Hi Stefan — If you can send me a sample map and/or dashboard template perhaps I can help you sort it out. "Committed" is default assumption so that should not be an issue. Usually a start date would only supress a task if set it in the future. If nothing is showing up in DA dashboard, it is possible that you have your "me" name defined differently in RM configuration than in the maps? Where are you using the "start date" filter?

NAA is set up to analyze a "vanilla" english-language daily action dashboard. It looks for specific information in the various branches in that template. It would need some customization for other languages.

By: Stefan Scheib

Stefan Scheib — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:57:06 +0000

The technical setup is available for quite a while now. And now I started with adapting my maps.
So far I am relying on dates, deadlines, priorities and context. And my selfmade dashboard is based on that.
For using the Daily Action Dashboard I have to "rework" my maps. Which is not too bad since I have to clean them up anyway. When I am running a Daily Action Dashboar right away and then run NAA I get excellent scores – because it is nothing in there ;-))

I have quite some experience with RM and the filters and methods but I am struggling. I realize that "committed" is the central requirement. But when running RM on a "list" and "funnel timeline" based map I get strange results.
Not sure if it is a bug or an error in my logic or using the wrong check boxes in RM. E.g. when using funnel timeline a task appears in the dashboard when it has no start date and disappears when it get its start date back (I have start dates on all tasks…). And the dashboard filter says Start Date = Yes…
Are there any basic requirements available for "Setting up project maps for NAA for Dummies"?
I will contact you offline in case I have more stupid questions….

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:40:18 +0000

I'd highly recommend it. It makes getting your dashboard under control more fun and provides a sense of progress and prioritization to the process.. If you have my gyroq.ini installed, just type "naa" at the gyroq prompt with your daily action dashboard open.

By: Stefan Scheib

Stefan Scheib — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:42:44 +0000

Hi ActivityOwner,

I am not using NAA so far but I was thinking about testing it for a while now. Maybe that's the right point of time now.

Thanks

By: ActivityOwner

ActivityOwner — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:58:35 +0000

Thanks Stefan — Not sure if you use Next Action Analysis but I just uploaded a new version that gathers up items sitting in in-trays and puts them in an entry under the foresight branch. Might be a simpler solution for you. I personally don't worry too much about in-tray items as long as they have context and time assignments. Its is the in-tray item that doesn't have a natural context or time estimate that turns on the "blob" alarm bells.

By: Stefan Scheib

Stefan Scheib — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:54:11 +0000

Hi ActivityOwner,

congratulations on your new startpage design. I find it clear and useful.
Here is how I solved my "In-Tray problem" (which is actually not really a problem ;-)).
I created a map that has collected all In-Trays hyperlinked from all my active project maps.
With the help of "MapLinker" from AprioriIT I can update and collect all context of the In-Trays in that one map.
The original In-Tray and the associated tasks are still in the original map and updated one-way to the summary map. This way it is easy to see in which map the In-Tray isn't empty and needs to be worked on.

I had this integrated in my map central for a while but found it more useful to have just the In-Trays in one map.

Best regards

Stefan