On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Noon Silk <[email protected]> wrote: > As many of you will know, I used to use trac for this, but I'm moving > (well, for some things) to JIRA. They also have GreenHopper to do the > "Agile" component; namely, planning boards and task boards and so on. > Now, it's arguably useful, but, there is, IMHO, a significant and > bizarre flaw in that you can't do this *across projects* (unless I am > mistaken). > > Atlassian claim they'll be providing this soon: > http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/GHS-1800 but incase they don't > actually deliver on that; and even anyway, I'm wondering how other > people do this. Is there some plugin for some software you are using? > Is there some better strategy for this?
FWIW, I've solved this within Jira, without any additional (non-free) plugins. I've only added the Calendar and Graphing plugins. My approach was to create a custom field called "Allocated Week"; and then assign Sunday as my start of week (this is for my personal projects, so Sunday is a valid working day). I then assign particular tasks to a given week. Then, I create filters that show this current weeks (allocated) work, and a filter which shows the backlog (work that was allocated to last week but didn't get done). From these filters, some graphs can be made to see the current workload assigned to the particular week broken up by projects, summarised in hours. Even when assigning work across staff, this strategy should be generally acceptable; the creation of appropriate graphs let you see workload (which you can get from reports and queries anyway), and so on and so forth. Working really well for me, so far. The creation of an appropriate Dashboard in Jira is mandatory for the running of this operation, but it's trivial and useful. So thanks for the comments, though I'd just follow up. -- Noon Silk http://dnoondt.wordpress.com/ (Noon Silk) | http://www.mirios.com.au:8081 > Fancy a quantum lunch? http://www.mirios.com.au:8081/index.php?title=Quantum_Lunch "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being this signature."
