I've been wondering if there's space for a sort of HN/PivotalTracker mashup, an intranet 'news'/'stories' board for improvised quick-iteration project management.
Story/tasks wouldn't decay with time, but only by being (1) finished; or (2) deprioritized with regard to others. Karma could be two-sided: points for proposing the right things, and (even more) points for actually implementing them.
(There'd be ways to estimate effort; split oversized items; claim/merge items to avoid redundancies; calculate community 'velocity' over time; etc.)
A few anchor project/community managers might have admin powers to pin certain overriding goals at top, or 'dead' digressions, or change the relative payoffs for proposing vs. doing, etc.
That is, what if a community much like HN compulsively hit 'reload' and earned karma not around ephemeral (often attention-abusing) 'news', but instead around incremental goals on a shared project?
Story/tasks wouldn't decay with time, but only by being (1) finished; or (2) deprioritized with regard to others. Karma could be two-sided: points for proposing the right things, and (even more) points for actually implementing them.
(There'd be ways to estimate effort; split oversized items; claim/merge items to avoid redundancies; calculate community 'velocity' over time; etc.)
A few anchor project/community managers might have admin powers to pin certain overriding goals at top, or 'dead' digressions, or change the relative payoffs for proposing vs. doing, etc.
That is, what if a community much like HN compulsively hit 'reload' and earned karma not around ephemeral (often attention-abusing) 'news', but instead around incremental goals on a shared project?