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 will speak about how we’re getting feedback from our users. This procedure includes: Send and collect feedback in our local Request Registration System (you can see our architecture in the http://borisfrolov.com/2012/08/12/basic-work-item-fields-description/). Send collected information to TFS. Form Application Survey reports. So, let’s start from the beginning….
One of the most important measures of system stability is how many not closed bugs exist at present moment. I will not speak about SLA here (or how quickly IT team is closing them) – this will be the subject of future post. So, how to track number of open…
In this post I will continue to speak about project management and how TFS helps me handling it. I’ve started from Project Kick-off meeting, then we have created branches for project’s code and reserved iterations for development and testing. Now we are ready for Detailed Planning phase. Still we are…
In this post I will continue speaking about projects, but now I will come back to TFS. Today’s story is about Merge & Branch structure and strategy for projects and significant changes. In one scheme it can be presented the following: So we have four branch directions: Main branch –…
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…
I would like to speak about Aging Report this post. This report helps us to look on the age of Work Items. I want this report to show me not only some totals, but also allow me to drill through to each single work item that is out of date….
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:…