One of the things that have been asked once in a while is the ability to create sub-accounts under your own user.

The idea is that project owners/managers will be able to create accounts for their users/clients/customers in an adhoc fashion which saves the users/clients/customers some trouble from having to register for an xp-dev.com user themselves.

The current work flow:

• Project manager (PM) registers on XP-Dev.com
• PM creates a new project
• PM mails, phones, etc tells the users about the new project that has been created
• Users/Clients register for new accounts
• Users/Clients mails, phones etc the PM to notify him of their newly created usernames
• PM permissions these users

The proposed work flow:

• Project manager (PM) registers on XP-Dev.com
• PM creates a new project
• PM permissions and creates sub-accounts (without providing a password)
• System sends email invites with a unique confirmation code
• Users/Clients visit that link and put in a password.

Under the new work flow, PMs will not be able to see/know the password of the sub-accounts.

Feedback

I’d appreciate any feedback on this. Will this work ? If it won’t work, what’s needed to improve it ?

Cheers!

Roopinder (rs)