I would like to create an estimation template that has many phases / sections. Each section has multiple levels eg.

Discovery Phase
Feature 1
Task F1T1
...
Feature 2

Blueprint Phase


For each line like Task F1T! -> I have columns to add Actor and Effort and I will be able to add Effort at Feature and Phase level et.

Any recommendations?

Navigator8 wrote:

(...) Any recommendations?

OS ? Mac, Windows, Linux, Web ...

Hi Pierre.

Web or Windows will be great. Many thanks

Navigator8 wrote:

Web or Windows will be great. Many thanks

Hi,

I was hoping others would chime in (as self-promotion is not always well regarded on user forums), but this doesn't seem to be happening.
(members of this forum -- at least the more vocal ones -- are mostly oriented towards macOS -- iOS apps)

So... w.r.t. your needs, our very own InfoQube IM would certainly fit the bill :-)

Do not hesitate to contact us either here or on the IQ Community forum

Pierre Paul Landry
IQ Designer

You can so this in my own Hyper Plan software (for Windows or Mac). For example when creating a workbreakdown structure:
https://www.hyperplan.com/how-to-create-a-work-breakdown-structure.html

I'm not sure if that is what you are looking for.

For once, I'm with Mr. Brice: OP's requirements are beyond me, I would have preferred some more, more specific details of what's called for, and why / in which way then that would go beyond of what any really decent outliner-with-transclusion would automatically provide. (I'm not that bright, you'know? So sorry!)

On second thought, learn some SQL, and get some (free) SQLite front-end, or then learn Regex, upon export. (Earlier versions of MyInfo, "on paper" at least, offered what you were after, but then, were incredibly unstable, even with absolutely "basic" tries in that range, but that might have changed with their last version, so have a look into that one first; then again, some regex upon export could come handy. Or then, probably, InfoQube - I hope I spelled that right - OMG: those leading "Q"s, in nowaday's names!)

If I understand your intention correctly, then the Outline (Group) functions of Excel should suffice.

You can use Groups within Groups within Groups etc. to achieve the hierarchies you want, and for adding parameters you'll have more columns than you are ever likely to need.

The solution is not as flexible or powerful as the wonderful InfoQube and Hyper Plan, but it relies on something that you probably own/use/know already.


BTW, I for one am all for our friendly developers mentioning their tools, whenever these provide convenient solutions to requests posted here.


Navigator8 wrote:

For each line like Task F1T! -> I have columns to add Actor and Effort
and I will be able to add Effort at Feature and Phase level et.

WBS creation on Hyper Plan is just brilliant! Thank you for the excellent tutorial too :)

Andy Brice wrote:

You can so this in my own Hyper Plan software (for Windows or Mac). For
example when creating a workbreakdown structure:
https://www.hyperplan.com/how-to-create-a-work-breakdown-structure.html

Musing a bit, playing with Hyper Plan....

In Andy's Work Breakdown example, I can have a card for each chapter or story beat, related to cards for things of interest. That would be like a WBS chart with multiple roots.

If a thing related to two chapters, both chapters would have a relationship link to the thing.

Further musing, and thinking about the capabilities of the Filter, I could add a Chapter property. If I added chapters in the form of "-1-" for chapter 1, "-26-1-7-" for chapters 1, 7, and 26, I could see just the chapter 7 hierarchy with a "show" filter for "chapter contains -7-". The dash prefix/postfix, means if I filter for -2-, I won't also see -26-.

The plus button on the stored views feature will let me save a Chapter 7 view.

As I filter for different chapters, I can add stored chapter views.

Possibilities, possibilities. A story outliner that does double duty as project kanban utility, bill-paying watchdog, etc. Nice.



Andy Brice wrote:

You can so this in my own Hyper Plan software (for Windows or Mac). For
example when creating a workbreakdown structure:
https://www.hyperplan.com/how-to-create-a-work-breakdown-structure.html

I'm not sure if that is what you are looking for.