I tried Agilo a while back, hoping I could "massage" it into a waterfall
methodology, and had limited success.

I find the Itteco Module more flexible and if I were to try it again, I
would start with that as a base.

However, Trac's workflow fits well into waterfall, and if you add
MasterTickets and TypedTicketWorkflow,  you can complete your V model
pretty easily.

The TypedTicketWorkflow would be your best bet if you wanted to
"handoff" to your maintenance model without sending the ticket to a new
Trac instance as well.  Once a Ticket becomes "maintenance" type, you
move it to "new" and if follows a separate workflow, or you could use
the triage feature at that point to split the workflow.

Aglio works well out of the box for scrum right from the get go.

I suspect the KanBan style reporting can be done with custom workflow
either way.  Assuming 3 sub stages in each hand-off stage, you just
happen to have a 9 step workflow:
code_ToDo->code_Doing->code_DOMG->val_ToDo->val_Doing....

The hard part would be if you really wanted to do something when each
bucket was "full" to prevent moving a task along the line.

  

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Paul Boos
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 9:10 AM
To: Trac Users
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [Trac] Workflow - Project question

I'm sort of interested in how Tracs features can best support the
following:

We currently do projects in a waterfall method, but hope to become more
agile, most likely using more of a Scrum process.  When a project
completes, we use Kanban to manage our issues.  As a result one
application can have two different workflows depending on whether the
issue is in development or is undergoing a maintenance type issue.

I would envision something like this:

New Development for a 1.0 release, issues tracked to ensure they are
known and stamped out before deployment.  Some issues may not be fixed
and woudl be passed along as issues to maintenance.  Waterfall -> Scrum
(eventually).

Maintenance issues get handled via Kanban; larger issues may accumulate
for future large release (development) efforts to be passed back to a
development process as above.

I've been looking into Itteco or Agilo to provide the visualization for
Kanban and Scrum (or Waterfall I guess for that matter).  What I am
unclear on is what would be a smart way to deploy and utilize Scrum
given the two different workflows we are interested in...

My initial inclination is that perhaps there would be two different
instances of Trac and we woudl pass issues between them.

sidenote: I am also interested in setting up some templates in the Trac
wiki for the ReadySet templates at readyset.tigris.org anyone have some
experience in setting up such a complex template set on Trac?

Thanks for some general insights or opinions on this.

Thanks!
Paul
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