Based on comments from users, we realize that the difference between Activites and To-dos in Planzone is not always clear.
To first structure and organize a project is the tricky part, it is not always clear:
- where and how to start ?
- how to set up the major phases or building blocks of a project (Activities) ?
- what level of detail to include (To-dos) ?
Creating and Managing Activities: What is an Activity in Planzone ?
An Activity can be regarded as the key stages of the project, it is the structure around which your project is organized.
Activities in Planzone can be defined as follows :
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For example: using the context of the Planzone marketing communication, we have created a project in Planzone named "Sales & Marketing 2013".
Within this project, we have identified several Activities, one of which
is called "Communication".
This includes several sub-activities which we assigned to Gayle Moran (one of our collaborators). For example we have allocated 8 hours to Gayle in the sub-activity Blogs for January.
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These sub-activities allow us to organize the Activity called “Communication” for example into :
Managing To-dos : What is a To-do in Planzone ?
In Planzone, to-dos ...
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To-dos can be assigned to several members of the project team as we explained in our article Why collaborative to-dos encourage teamwork ?
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In the example above, there are three to-dos in the January sub-activity.
In summary :
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We hope that the distinction between activities and tasks in Planzone is now clearer.
Leïla Catherine TOUMI
leila.toumi@planzone.com