Graph-Driven SoftwareForge
Graph-Driven SoftwareForge: built on a pattern of graphs (everything is a graph)....
- cf NodeWeb-2030
(Your Threaded Discussion is obviously a graph (cf Holocene). And the connections between tasks and discussion-threads is a graph.)
Equally messy, your IssueTracker is a graph, esp once you embrace
- sub-story Tasks
- not-software-dev Tasks
And, unless your organization has an amazing culture of focus, it's probably hard to stay clear on why you're doing something, or more-importantly, what you should do next. And when everyone is struggling with this, collaborating across groups becomes a nightmare.
A theory:
- you start from higher-level Strategic Context and OKRs to prioritize major themes of action/attention
- you have a graph of beliefs/ideas and actions, all eventually connecting to that Context
- attention/energy flows down/out/around the graph from the context: WebOfPriority calculated like WebOfTrust.
But maybe this is "solving the wrong problem", compensating for poor culture and structure and incentives. Tech rarely wins that battle within an org.
Later-related: (2022-04-13) Revisiting AppWiki and WikiProxy
Note this is real-team-targeted, vs TaskCloud: but could both be the same? Yes, except that TaskCloud raises all sorts of complexities (Local-First) for the sake of Decentralization, which is good for Network Economy but irrelevant to the average current/normal team. So maybe Worse-is-Better approach is to get this designed/working in a standard-SaaS model, then refine as decentralized...?
Jul'2022 thoughts
- the priority-calculation is pointless, but being able to connect tasks upward to layers of strategic context is highly valuable
- goal2, being able to create subthreads/subtasks all-the-way-down is also crucial
- goal3 is to be able to relate anything to anything, simply because Everything Is A Graph
- goal4 is to be able to have async discussions with appropriate context
- other wants
- fast, like Asana webapp
- ideally, the "async" discussion UI is almost as fast enough for real-time
- easy to add yourself to any "thread"
- fast, like Asana webapp
- What, is Tana the solution?
Sept'2023 thoughts
- given that your DVCS already has a web-UI, that doesn't need to be built-in here
- counter-argument: it's good for commit-comments and code-comments to use double-brackets and have them link to this space....
- counter-counter: plan for browser extension to provide linking in such webapps.... (2022-04-13) Revisiting AppWiki and WikiProxy
- counter-argument: it's good for commit-comments and code-comments to use double-brackets and have them link to this space....
- so SoftwareForge feels (a) too heavy/complex, and (b) too software-team-focused
- so need a reframe/rename....
- this supports: notes+tasks (like an IssueTracker Wiki but graphy), plus discussions....
- TeamGarden? TeamSpace? TeamWiki? I'll go with the first...
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