This page lets you add a new project.
New Project Details
This tab lets you create a new project. A project is a planned undertaking directed towards achieving a particular goal. In Ketura, projects comprise a sequence of milestones. For more information, see Ketura Tour Step 4: Projects and Milestones.
To create a new project:
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Complete the form. The fields Name and Planned Start date must be completed to create a new project.
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Click the Apply button.
Three new milestones are added to a new project automatically. You can delete or modify these if you wish. The milestones
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O1 – Review New Issues. New issues relating to the project should be added here, ready for a project manager to review and schedule them. If most new issues of a particular issue topic will generally relate to the same project, you might want to configure the workflow for that issue topic so that new issues are automatically added to that project’s ‘O1 – Review New Issues’ milestone. The ‘O’ prefix (short for ’Ongoing’) to the milestone name is a suggested naming convention for milestones that are considered ongoing and likely never to complete. The ‘1’ simply indicates that this is the first such ongoing milestone within the project.
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M1 – First Milestone. This is the first real (as opposed to ongoing) milestone of your project. You will probably want to rename this milestone to reflect your project’s first major goal. The ‘M’ prefix (short for ’Milestone’) to the milestone name is a suggested naming convention for your project’s main milestones. The ‘1’ indicates that this is the first such milestone within the project.
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X1 – Deferred Issues. This milestone is intended to hold issues that it might be useful to undertake later on, but which you do not yet wish to schedule. You would generally make sure that all issues on this milestone are in an inactive state (such as ‘Deferred’), so that the project schedule is not pushed out by them. The ‘X’ prefix (indicating that this isn’t a genuine milestone) to the milestone name is a recommended naming convention for placeholder milestones that hold unscheduled issues like this. The ‘1’ indicates that this is the first such milestone within the project.
To abandon the creation of the new project:
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Click the Cancel button.
Description of form fields
| Name | The name of the project. |
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| Planned Start date | The date when the project is expected to start. Ketura will not attempt to schedule any users’ time to the project before this date, even if it has been allocated to the project. |
| Active | The active state of the project. Only tasks from current milestones of active projects are scheduled and shown in users’ In progress and Pending task lists. The project is active if the box is checked. |