The following is a summary of how my recent set of interviews has affected the scope of my project. This is also added to my personal experience of working on a more varied set of projects within a team and seeing how people really manage their projects (as oppose to how they say they do). When directly questioned, people tended to agree the following observations where correct in the majority of cases.
• People don’t need nested/meshed projects – One of the things that I was considering was having a project mesh, which allows similar projects to share certain data between them. When I asked people if they thought this was a good idea and would use it, almost everyone said yes. However people don’t actually seem to need this sort of functionality. They just use tickets to separate the project out. As a result, the scope of tickets has changed to allow for this instead of being a change control mechanism.
• People don’t need fine grained permissions – This is another thing people said they needed, but having worked in groups of varying sizes and on big and small projects, people don’t nee fine grained permissions so that has been removed
