Objective

An Objective is a new or modified business goal defined by the business. However, an objective can also represent a technological task that supports the achievement of business goals. Technological tasks are determined by middle management. In cases where a business objective requires preliminary technical work—such as migrating data to the cloud—the business may neither be aware of nor interested in the technical details. However, middle management ensures the necessary steps are taken. In such cases, a separate technological objective is created, and the business and technological objectives are linked in a logical sequence. The completion of the business objective depends on the successful execution of the technological one.

Each objective has a business weight—representing its importance at the business level—and a priority at the technical level. The business value is expressed numerically and can change as the objective evolves. When the business value of a specific requirement shifts, the priority of related tasks and defect fixes also changes to align with the new priority of the business objective.

The change adjusts scheduling and auto-assignment but does not remove Tasks from the performer if the Task is in progress at the time of the change.

Each Objective in the system has a business weight (9 -- maximum priority)

Both business and technological objectives are decomposed into technical tasks, each requiring specific skills and levels of proficiency for execution.

Estimate - estimation of labor inputs required to complete all tasks decomposed from Objective (expert estimation displayed on Gantt diagram with the possibility of fixing it).

Planned end date is the plan date of the Iteration to which Objective is linked. Defined by the user

Expected date (estimated date). Changed automatically by the system according to the date of the last task. Becomes visible to the user from the moment of defining the estimates of the Objective

• If Objective is not decomposed the date is empty 
• If there is a Task, date last

Statuses

• Not decomposed - no task has been created 
• Decomposition - at least 1 task created 
• In progress - at least one task is in the In progress stage 
• Done - all the tasks are Done