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That's really cool! I think my one complaint is that its unclear how some of the 'self starter' items are operating - sometimes they just sit there with stuff they can be doing on the board



Ah ok. Here’s how it works.

You can give someone multiple self-starters. Say you give someone 3 of them. That means that after they’ve been assigned a task manually (once) they will then go back to their desk and after a little pause, spontaneously go back and look for work to do. They’ll do this 3 times (since they have a self start level of 3). Then they’ll rest until they’re manually assigned to a task again, at which point they’ll again do up to 3 extra tasks. And so on.

There’s no “infinite self starter” item you can buy for them.


What's the difference between "Self Starter" and "Observation Training", then?


Observation means that as soon as they complete a card they immediately look for a card of the same sort.

With self starter there is a delay before they look for it (which can actually be good) and if they have multiple skills they’ll first look for cards to test, then for cards to dev, then for cards to “ba”.


Does Observation chain in to Self Starter, then? For example, if there are 2 dev tasks and 2 test tasks and I assign my founder to test, will he test 1, use observer to go back and do the 2nd, use self starter to pick up the 1st dev task, and then use observer again to finish the 2nd dev task?


No, the order is "Observation", "Self Starter", idle


It doesn’t but it should. I haven’t added that yet.




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