3.5.3. Urgency

Urgency

While some features and tasks may be considered and ranked as more important than other, some issues may have more pressing time constraints than others. For those who prefer to loosely rank issues in terms of due date, the urgency option may help. Urgencies as stored in AgileTrack are technically due dates, and are sorted as such, but since iterations are should be used for fine tuned planning, the urgency is meant to be more general, but also allow things to come to the top of the list over time. For example, if a task's urgency is set to "one year", it will automatically rise in urgency over time.

Yesterday
This month
Three months
Six months
One year

The loose urgency assignment is meant to be used to sort issuse in order of the most urgent items so that time doesn't need to be specnt considering the less urgent items when planning iterations. When considered in conjunction with the importance of and issue, the most urgent and most important items are those that should be completed first, and AgileTrack allows that to be made readily apparent.

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