Re: Ranges for Importance & Urgency (0-200) vs. Effort (0-100) are different
Eberhard
you might want to try the following ... right click on the sliders for
importance and urgency will give you at least a basic set of pre-sets.
Eberhard
On 6 Feb., 11:27, Dan Scalia <ddascale...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been using MLO for a few days and find it to be a tight, efficient,
> erognomic, fast and overall just NEAT piece of software. Congratulations!
> (I've evaluated over 40 project management tools<http://wiki.dandascalescu.com/reviews/online_services/customer_and_pr...>before picking MLO.)
>
> There are some things I'd like to suggest, and one of them is to normalize
> the range for Importance, Urgency and Effort to 0-100. Express it in
> percentages even. The user would read/interpret the number like "Task X is
> 100% important", "Task Y is 10% urgent" or "Task Z requires 100% of my
> effort".
>
> Of course, if there is a reason to have two of the values expressed from 0
> to 200 and the other from 0 to 100, please let me know. The inconsistency
> seems strange to me, but I'm a new user.
>
> Another small suggestion regarding these sliders is to have Ctrl, Shit
> and/or Alt act as modifiers when pressing the arrow keys to
> increase/decrease the value. For example:
> * left or down arrow: decrease by 1; right or up arrow: increase by 1
> (current behavior)
> * Ctrl+arrows: increase/decrease by 10
> * Shift+arrows: increase/decrease by 25
> * Alt+arrows: increase/decrease by 5
>
> (I've chosen those particular keys and values based on their proximity to
> the arrows on a typical laptop or 101-standard key keyboard, which I
> believe might be the most common layout).
m...@grantsmiths.org
Hi, Dan. Initially I had no answer to your question but it hit me today when I was shaving. The reason for a 1-200 range is inflation.
When people have to rank importance on a scale of 1-100, the tendency is for most tasks to end up in the range 90-100. Maybe you don’t start out that way, maybe you start with tasks clustered at 70, 80 and 90. But then some task stands out from the other 90s and you start a cluster at 95 and then something critical comes up and you make it 97 and before you know it, everything that really matters is 100 and 90 comes to mean “average”. Really, average should be 50, but nobody feels good about that because 50% is a failing grade. (Think of Lake Woebegone, where all the kids are above average). So you end up, for practical purposes with a usable scale of about ten points, which sometimes is just not enough.
By making the scale 1-200 and the default 100, there is plenty of room for creating levels that are a little higher or a little lower. People will let a lot of their bread-and-butter tasks sit at 100, it does not have the stigma that 50 has. After a long time of making tasks that are just a little more important than the task that was previously at the top of my list, I have not come close to 200 yet, so it’s working.
-Dwight
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Subject: [MLO] Ranges for Importance & Urgency (0-200) vs. Effort (0-100) are different
I've been using MLO for a few days and find it to be a tight, efficient, erognomic, fast and overall just NEAT piece of software. Congratulations! (I've evaluated over 40 project management tools before picking MLO.)
There are some things I'd like to suggest, and one of them is to normalize the range for Importance, Urgency and Effort to 0-100. Express it in percentages even. The user would read/interpret the number like "Task X is 100% important", "Task Y is 10% urgent" or "Task Z requires 100% of my effort".
Of course, if there is a reason to have two of the values expressed from 0 to 200 and the other from 0 to 100, please let me know. The inconsistency seems strange to me, but I'm a new user.
Another small suggestion regarding these sliders is to have Ctrl, Shit and/or Alt act as modifiers when pressing the arrow keys to increase/decrease the value. For example:
* left or down arrow: decrease by 1; right or up arrow: increase by 1 (current behavior)
* Ctrl+arrows: increase/decrease by 10
* Shift+arrows: increase/decrease by 25
* Alt+arrows: increase/decrease by 5
(I've chosen those particular keys and values based on their proximity to the arrows on a typical laptop or 101-standard key keyboard, which I believe might be the most common layout).
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