Our team wants to use Agilo to manage the backlog, but not for tracking tasks, which we do with task cards a whiteboard... for only the effort of writing a description and a name on the card and moving it around. Agilo developers: please make it take less clicks to create and manage Tasks! Use some drag-and-drop for moving virtual task cards around.
So we want Agilo to draw the burndown without entering any tasks... but by default the burn-down is calculated by adding up the time remaining for all the tasks linked from sprint stories. Uh-oh - how can we fix this? Solution: For the Agilo ticket type called "User Story", add Remaining Time as a field, and for the Sprint Backlog add Remaining Time as an editable column. Now we can set Remaining Time for individual stories without creating tasks. But what about the burn down? First, change the User Story calculation of total_remaining_time a calculated field whose default value is "sum:get_outgoing.remaining_time"... to sum:remaining_time. Now instead of adding up tasks, we reference the story itself. Unfortunately such stories possessing the remaining_time field will appear to Agilo to be both "story-linked tasks" and "orphan tasks" when totalling the time remaining, making the time remaining in the burn-down twice what it should be. To fix this, force the time- remaining calculation to count only "orphan" tasks by editing agilo/ scrum/sprint.py to change total_remaining_time += remaining_for_tasks to total_remaining_time = remaining_for_tasks. This uses the sum of orphan tasks while ignoring the earlier sum up of story-linked-tasks. Now you can use Agilo to manage a product and sprint backlog, and draw the burndown in each sprint, without the overhead of its clunky interface for managing tasks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Agilo for Scrum" group. This group is moderated by agile42 GmbH http://www.agile42.com and is focused in supporting Agilo for Scrum users. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/agilo?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
