Let’s say I have a task, of which I create a couple of subtasks. I am now tracking and reporting the status of each of those subtasks individually. So how do I report on the status of the parent task? If someone were to look at it, it would appear that the status has not progressed. I could have it display the status of its child tasks, but what about child tasks of the child tasks? This would create a confusing representation of the status of the task. Additionally, the sum of the child tasks may not exactly represent what needs to be done for the parent task. Also, the parent task might have had status updates of its own. Do tasks stop being tasks as soon as they have children? Do they just become a container for additional tasks? What if they started out as a task and already had status notes associated with them?