Personal project called MessyBrain

Yesterday I launched my own little project on CodePlex called MessyBrain!
This way I hope to improve my coding skills and learn some new things. I never worked with ASP.NET MVC so this is the first hurdle to get over…

An extra pair of brain cells is always welcome!

 

MessyBrain

Project Description
Organize your tasks in an efficient way. Assign tasks to members of your team. Create workflows for your team.
Written in C# and ASP.NET MVC.

Why did I start this project?
Making mistakes is part of the learning process. They can be painful especially when they are made at work; there’s a cost attached to it.

Why not start a project on my own? Mistakes will be less painful (only my ego will be damaged), I learn something new and there isn’t a cost attached to it. I can share the code with the world and hopefully people will optimize my code so I will learn something new! But what sort of application should I develop?

Because I’m having some trouble to find an efficient and organized way to manage my tasks I was thinking to create a planning tool. It’s not only for my messy brain but I also noticed that some people are using Excel to manage their tasks.

Why not use a special developed application for this purpose? Or wouldn’t it be easier if the head of the department could centralize this data? He can assign tasks to specific people in his team and see how much of the task has been completed so far.

The people in the team will have a nice overview of all the assigned tasks and can see which tasks are more important… Maybe each task could contain multiple steps and maybe each step must be completed by a different department. This way the person who created the task can see which department is currently working on the task. Some sort of workflow…