Memo to collaboration tools: Not all comments are created equal.
Written by Jonathan Friday, 03 June 2011 19:40
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How we communicate with one another is rapidly changing. With Facebook, Twitter[1], and other social applications we are getting use to viewing information in real-time. While monitoring your activity stream of comments, you can follow the conversation and see what everyone is saying.
Similar to the activity streams of collaborative applications it is advantageous for team members to participate in real-time – proposing edits, flagging issues, voting for high priority features, and ultimately approving requirements. But even when participating in real-time – not all comments are created equal.
Being a company who builds collaborative software to aid other development teams, we realized – when projects grow in complexity and hundreds or thousands of people are participating in the discussion of a project, it becomes difficult to follow along and synthesize the comments that require action. We wanted to allow people to create distinction between comments and approve and make the comments actionable. These filters highlight different comment types that assist teams to hone in on specific threads to make decisions quicker and keep projects moving forward.
Below are the 4 comment types within Review Center[2]:
1 – Submitting a general comment.
2 – Submitting a question.
3 – Submitting a proposed change.
4 – Submitting an issue or bug.
The Review Center within Contour[3] provides a fast and agile way to collaborate on requirements. It enables your team to discuss, review and approve requirements with stakeholders and customers in real-time, ensuring you get requirements right the first time. Review Center provides real results, and can cut your requirements approval cycle from weeks to days – aiding in team buy-in, and keeping momentum moving forward.
Review Center commenting in action, you can see the clear difference between the general comments (white), issues (yellow), and questions (blue).
Tags: Agile, collaboration, Project Management, review center[4][5][6][7]
References
- ^Twitter (twitter.com)
- ^Review Center (www.jamasoftware.com)
- ^Contour (www.jamasoftware.com)
- ^Agile (blog.jamasoftware.com)
- ^collaboration (blog.jamasoftware.com)
- ^Project Management (blog.jamasoftware.com)
- ^review center (blog.jamasoftware.com)
- ^View all posts in Company (blog.jamasoftware.com)
- ^RSS 2.0 (blog.jamasoftware.com)
- ^leave a response (blog.jamasoftware.com)
- ^trackback (blog.jamasoftware.com)
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