Currently we're experimenting with TFS2012. We're new to agile, but love it right away. Anyway, what we're looking for is cross-project / cross-sprint resource planning facility.
To be more specific, if I work in multiple projects simultaneously, I need a view for my superiors to show them how busy I am. Something very much like this :
Now I know that TFS has all the data required for that. Does such a thing exist? Or would I have to develop a plugin myself?
EDIT: Since this has been answered, I posted a follow-up detail question.
I haven't seen anything with such a feature, however using the api to access iteration dates to generate an iCal which can be imported to an exchange calendar seems fairly easy.
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I am looking for project planing support in JIRA. An upcoming project contains different work streams which can be quite independent of each other. For each work stream the corresponded tickets will be stored in JIRA.
Assuming that for each ticket the effort estimation in days is derived. I am looking for the following visualization:
WS1: Ticket_1_1 Ticket_1_2 Ticket_1_3 ...
WS2: Ticket_2_1 Ticket_2_2 Ticket_2_3 ...
....
WSN: Ticket_N_1 Ticket_N_2 Ticket_N_3 ...
Accompanied by the calendar time axis.
The representation will be used for the definition of implementation order and challenging of project timelines (or ticket descoping)
Does JIRA support such or similar visualizations (may be through plugins)?
Could you please provide some suitable ideas?
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you may try Portfolio for Jira.
Example: https://www.teamlead.ru/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=18514705
HTH
JIRA is available for rich visualization and reporting functions as it widely uses in the industry. JIRA dashboards and visual boards make better sense in the data-driven approaches. This may help you to have a better discussion on JIRA reportings HERE.
Let me recommend some sort of tools you may be helped in this context. ZOHO , ASANA
I am new to stackoverflow, so please forgive me.
I am trying to create a student timetable for a student information system as part of a University project that will display the times, dates, details of modules as well as the location of the events.
I have done endless research and I haven't found a solution to my problem. I know there are the likes of the DHTMLX scheduler and Daypilot scheduler (Which is exactly the sort of thing I have been looking for) but these do not really suit for a number of reasons:
Both only offer 30 day trials and I would need it for slightly longer than that as the project is needed right up to July
I have tried to follow the tutorials for the DayPilot scheduler lite version but it just does not seem to load for me no matter what I try.
I have looked everywhere but nothing seems to be working for me and that's why I would love some feedback/advice if there are any other methods that I should explore.
I am using MVC 4 in Visual Studio 2012.
Thanking you in advance :)
You can try JavaScript DHTMLX Scheduler. It is free under GPL license, which should be ok for a university project. You'll need to manually implement loading and saving of calendar data (which is done by helpers in ASP.NET version of the component), although it should be not that difficult. You can check this tutorial, it's quite outdated but still may be useful
http://www.dhtmlx.com/blog/dhtmlxscheduler-for-net-mvc/
Note that starting from the latest version the GPL package does not include several modes, such as Timeline or Units(resources) views
However, if you need them you can grab the previus version from a GitHub https://github.com/DHTMLX/scheduler/tree/v4.2.0
I have a project with 4 teams handling different parts of a fairly large web based system. What would be the best way of handling this in Jira and Jira Agile?
One project and board per team or is there another way of organizing this in Jira Agile?
Read about using components but since I'm fairly new to Jira Agile I don't know how to do that.
If many team are working on different part of the same system, I suggest you create only one project. From my experience there is a lot of chance you will want to move 'items' from one team to another or link two items that are related but not handle by the same team.
Like previous posts mentioned, GreenHopper is just an (agile) plugin that help you manage items in JIRA, allowing to display and manage them in different ways. The plugins is especially useful if your are following a development process like Scrum.
With the last version of the tools I was able to easily share a single 'backlog' of work to do between multiple teams and then 'assign' items to a specific team when it's time to work on it. When planning for the next Sprint, for example.
Of course having a clear view of your process is key.
I think you are confused about a few things, which is understandable for somebody new to the tool.
Jira is the software you are using and Greenhopper is an external company that produces plugins for it, mainly the Agile plugin. Components are within Jira and they are simply a way you can categorize your issues. I suggest you find a tutorial video on jira to introduce you better to the tool.
Now, again, these are just tools. They don't dictate how you should work. Jira is very flexible that way so you can do Agile, Scrum, Kanban or whatever methodology you want within it.
You need to first decide what methodology/process you will adopt. Basically, how will you guys work?
Are all the teams working in sprints? Do they have the same deadlines? Are the stories-issues parts of a whole or can each team deliver a full feature on it's own?
For example, if one team is infrastructure, one is UI and one is DB, their parts will likely come together to make a "whole" feature, that is complete and tested.
Another example is if team A is doing a Reporting Module and team B is doing a Login module, their features aren't usually related and they can work separately.
So basically, you can't ask anybody here to give you the straight answer. Stop focusing on the tool and understand how you will work and what makes sense for you.
And remember: agile is trial and error. Try something and if it doesn't work, adapt.
I am starting a game design project with a group of three other students. We would like to use some open source hosting service for version control, a wiki, etc. I have looked at threads like these (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10490/best-open-source-project-hosting-site, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29736/what-open-source-hosting-service-should-i-use, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_facilities) but am still not sure which is best for our situation. Those threads seem to focus more on large scale, long term open source projects, whereas my group will be small and working together for a relatively short time.
Here are my constraints:
group of 4-5 people
10+ hours per week per person spent working on this project until May 2010
Language/framework: C# XNA
IDE: Visual Studio 2008
project will be no bigger than 100 mb
Features that would be nice to have:
Wiki
Milestone tracking
Issue/bug tracking
Code reviews
Document hosting (like the game manual, design spec, etc)
I'm thinking CodePlex would be nice because of its support for Visual Studio. I've had a positive experience with CodePlex in the past for a tiny project. However, Assembla has a nice UI, and its time tracking feature/linking tickets to SVN commits seems like it could be really helpful. (The time tracking in particular appeals to me, because if certain group members are slacking it could show through here.)
Google Code has been praised by many in the aforementioned threads, and everyone in my group has a Google account.
Also, I'm not sure which license we should pick for our project.
Codeplex already has lots of XNA related projects being hosted on it. One of the great things about codeplex is that you can choose from a large number of source control clients. It supports the TFS client, SVN, and mercurial. So from a flexibility perspective, it's very very simple.
From a license perspective ... well, you didn't really give enough information about what your goals are. Do you want a license like GPL, which ensures that your code can't be used in a closed source project dodwnstream? Do you not really care who does what?
Personally, for the open source projects I've hosted on codeplex, I prefer the mozilla public license. It basically says the code is as is, and you can do whatever you want with it, open or closed.
Google Code has been praised by many
in the aforementioned threads, and
everyone in my group has a Google
account.
I think this coupled with easy usage of Docs/Groups/etc. and what not for things you dont nesscearily want public as well as group integration, all with interfaces that the entire team is most likely already used to working with, makes it a logical choice unless there are some features better fulfilled by another service in your opinion. In not nessecarily singing the normal paraises of google here - it just seems like a very pragmatic no fuss solution.
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We've had several sprints with the traditional whiteboard and PostIt notes and are ready to move forward to integrating the process into our Team System environment. One tool we're considering is Conchango's "Scrum for Team System" (http://www.scrumforteamsystem.com/en/)
Has anyone tried this tool in a real world scrum process? Was your experience positive or negative? Is the tool worth the licensing fee in your opinion?
We use Scrum For Team System and love it. It really does a good job of merging the TFS and Scrum processes.
We also got the task board (the part you have to pay for) and really like that too.
Even with Scrum for Team System, TFS via visual studio is not good for planning meetings (though it is ok for standups) The task board helps a lot in visualizing the work remaining and in moving it around.
Before we got the Task Board, we would use post it notes for our planning meetings and then enter them in to TFS after. And even though the Task Board is nice, if you don't have at least 2 people working on it in a planning meeting then it is not enough. We have 3 laptops going for a team of 5 + 1 (scrum master) and that works great. If you don't have that then I would still think about doing post it notes.
The task board allows you to refresh and see what the other are entering in. We have one computer hooked up to a projector so that the others can see what is happening. We all then brainstorm like we would on post it notes, but the people on laptops enter the data into TFS.
For us, it works great!
Later Note: If you do choose the Scrum For Team System template then I STRONGLY recommend that you read the Process Guidance. We had to figure out a few thing the hard way before we sat down and read it. Especially on how to handle defects (i.e. when is it a Bug and when it is a Sprint Back Log Item that goes back to "In Progress")
The templates are free. It is only the Task Board Application that cost a modest fee. You can use the templates without the Task Board although I highly recommend using it as wll. I think the biggest advantage for my team has been that the ScrumForTeamSystem tempaltes integrate into VS and provide a seamless feel with the rest of the development environment.
We love the ability to attach the PBI's to check-ins and have them show up on the Daily Build report.
If you are are missing something you need, you can fire up the VS template editortweak the templates to your liking. For us, we added a "Requested By" field and a "Testing Status" field to the PBI template.
The 2 shortcommings that annoyed us were that the "State" of the PBI's were not the same as SBI's (No Ready For Test on the PBI). We do testing/validation at the feature level and not the task level and wanted to track the PBIs status so we had to add our own custom field. The second issue was that there is no report out-of-the-box for a PBI burndown/up at the Sprint level. So you can't see how you are doing at delivering stories, only tasks. You have to make your own.
We don't really use the "Bug" template much (we ship flawless code:) ). No really, there is no such thing as a bug against work in a sprint; so the only time we record a bug is if a client finds an issue in the production code where it didn't work as advertised.
As Vaccano said, it isn't nearly as fast as a whiteboard or post-its in a meeting environment but if you get a couple people really good at using the tool and a couple of laptops you can make it work.
I evaluated several products and the simplicity and price of ScrumForTeamSystem can't be beat.
Like others have said, beware that the Conchango template handles bugs very differently. The idea that unreleased Backlog Items are bug-free is not just a suggestion; there is literally no way to track bugs affecting the current sprint's work. I found that this disadvantage outweighed the advantages.
If you are searching for an online Whiteboard you can have a look at the Scrum tool Agilo. It was build especially for distributed teams which do not have the chance to work on a "real" whiteboard.
For a quick information you can have a look at this video.
The 3.0 version of the template for VS 2010 changes how the tool models Scrum in ways to very effectively support multi-team projects and the typical interactions one will find in larger projects.
Regardless of version, it is currently my default answer for Scrum projects in Microsoft environments. As mentioned, the task board and the (new) ScrumMaster's workbench are incredibly valuable as well!
We build Urban Turtle that extend the Microsoft ALM platform with an intuitive Web interface and simplify your agile project management. By providing a Task Board and a planning board directly in web access you don't have to synchronize anything. The installation is a simple process. 2 minutes to install on the web access server. Nothing to setup on the client desktop.
Don't take my word for cash have a look at what Brian Harry from Microsoft said about the product :
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2010/10/21/urban-turtle-3-5-released.aspx
Have a look at the website and send me your feedback
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