Today I will describe one more report we’ve created in order to analyze how baseline hours refers to the actual time spent on the solution of the task. This information is rather useful. Baseline hours in our team are planned by a single manager and he does not know who…
In this post I would like to speak about support reports. We have systems that are in production for quite a long period of time. And business wants some additional changes and new functionality to be implemented to the current systems. We unite such tasks into several categories and allocate…
This post will end the first look on every day\every week planning with two reports: Hours Planned for Developers and Triage. The report Hours Planned for Developers gives simple picture what workload developers have on each week: Whether there are hours that stay in the past. Whether developer does not…
Today I would like to focus on the main tool that my team is using for every day control of planning process. I called it Task Capacity report. If you are familiar with Microsoft Project and Gantе chart you will find much common between this tools and Task Capacity report,…
Let’s go to the next activity: I called it every day\every week planning. These periods cannot be separated as they’re going hand by hand through the planning process. We create plans for a week and control it on every day basis. Some key moments of this type of planning are:…
As promised I’m going to describe main reports that are based on Project and Scenarios work items and give me possibility easily to analyze my projects portfolio and resource workload. Of course you can say that these reports can be easily received from MS Project Server, but it rather expensive…
Project is a separate work item that picks out activities taking more than 200 hours of work, monitored by business leaders and maintained following project methodology. All these activities are passed through special survey and those who were determined as projects proceed using all points of project methodology, others are…
In TFS 2008 work items do not have parent-child relationships also it is impossible to add links in MS Excel, so it was decided by me to group work items using separate work item field, not link mechanism. As I’ve written before we have three different work items Projects (top…