Calculate your schedule

Introduction

AgileAgenda is a little bit different than most project scheduling applications out there. We believe the computer should do the hard work of figuring out dates, and you should only have to worry about the facts of the project.

Durations and Priorities, not Start and End

Figuring out the start and end dates of tasks is a time consuming process to go through. What's worse is that that slight changes in your schedule can cause every single task to move. To make that easy, Agile Agenda asks for durations and priorities, and then it'll figure out the start and end dates for you.

As you enter more detailed information (vacations, dependencies, etc.) those start and end dates become more accurate. The more accurate your facts, the more accurate the estimate will be. You only have to think about the project-specific pieces and not about the scheduling-specific pieces.

Schedules Constantly Change

Nobody has perfect knowledge of how long a project will take before it's completed. In many projects scope, resource availability, and task estimates all change frequently. Agile Agenda wants to make it as easy as possible to make those changes without going back and reworking unrelated things. For instance, if an employee decides to take a vacation, you should only have to enter in that vacation and not have to worry about how that affects other areas such as tasks, milestones, or the project completion date. The software should take as much information about a project as you can give and give a best guess as to when things will be completed.

"Today" is important

Today's date can tell us a lot about a project. If a task should have been done by "today" and it's not, that task is late. If a project shouldn't be done today and it is marked as such then that task is early. Agile Agenda understands both of those and will automatically mark tasks as early or late depending on their status. Late tasks will hold up other tasks and push completion dates further into the future. Early tasks won't block other tasks and will move completion dates closer to today.

Basecamp edition and milestones

There are two dates associated with milestones. The first are the estimated completion dates. These are what you see within AgileAgenda and are calculated based upon the tasks that make up the milestone.

When editing Milestones inside of Basecamp, you are editing the deadlines. That's the date that you must have a milestone completed by. By having both of these dates, you can easily see if the estimated completion is in time for your deadline. When you save your project back to Basecamp there will be a message created in your project that shows a table of both of these dates. AgileAgenda will never change the Basecamp milestone deadline you set.