Four Suggestions To Take Zoho Projects Over The Top

I have been a loyal Zoho Projects user, on behalf of my company, Blueliner Marketing (www.bluelinerny.com) for over three years now. As CEO of a global digital marketing agency, we need to collaborate effectively from remote locations to succeed. While some of the recent enhancements to Zoho Projects certainly improve the UI and overall usability, there are several key features missing which I believe would take Zoho Projects over the top.

Budget Hours per Task, Task List and/or Milestone, in a way that is easily added, updated and especially viewable to all participants (except maybe Clients, at option of Admins).
Show Current Hours to-date per Task, Task List and/or Milestone, next to the budget - then showing "Hours Remaining" or left in budget. #1 + #2 would really help Zoho Projects get closer to some of the leading Agile project and process management tools - right now, it's just not user-friendly for Agile/scrum type work that requires great discipline in time planning and management.
Merge Tasks (and all associated Notes, Time Entries, Associated Documents, Forum posts, etc. This would help Admins greatly in organizing/streamlining Tasks as they accumulate in the system over time. When other system users erroneously create and enter time against tasks, instead of deleting them, they can be merged (along with time entered and other attributes) into one, more appropriate, task.
Create Sub-Tasks, at least one-level deeper, so that if users want to create very detailed tasks, split and assign tasks for better assignment and time management, they can do so.

I'm glad to discuss this further, and committed to helping Zoho improve its software.

Best,
Arman

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