Interaction with Agile Management

The Agile Development process encompasses various activities to manage product development efforts, including tasks like creating a product, tracking sprints, and managing releases. This process emphasizes iterative and incremental development, ensuring flexibility and responsiveness to changing requirements. Agile methodologies employ techniques such as backlog management, sprint planning, task management, daily stand-ups, and sprint reviews and retrospectives to facilitate effective product development and delivery. These practices enable teams to collaborate efficiently, prioritize work, track progress, and continuously improve their development process. Agile project management tools are often utilized to streamline and support these activities, providing features for organizing backlogs, planning sprints, managing tasks, conducting meetings, and generating insightful reports. By adopting Agile practices, organizations can enhance their product development capabilities and deliver valuable solutions to customers in a dynamic and adaptive manner.

Create Product

A product can be a set of features or functionality offered to users. Each product can have an owner that maintains the work pipeline, such as epics and stories, for the product. These work items can be associated to a theme, which is related with a business goal.

In order to create product, Navigate to Agile Development > Products.


Click on button on the top ribbon of the view.


The new Product form will open.


On the Form, fill in the fields.

Fields

Description

Name

Name of the product.

Short Description

Description of the product that briefly explains its features and mentions the theme and groups associated to it.

Product owner

User responsible for managing the development and releases for the product.

Description

Detailed description about the Product.

Create Theme

To effectively group stories from different products together, enabling you to work towards a common abstract goal, Agile Development offers the option to create themes.

Within Agile Development, locate and select "Themes" to access the Themes section.

Click on button on the top ribbon of the view.


A new Theme form will now appear.


Fill out the information on the form.

Fields

Description

Name

Name for the theme that states the high-level business case.

Product

Product with which this theme is associated. You can associate a theme with just one product at a time.

Short Description

Brief description of the theme.

Description

Detailed description about the theme.

Create Epic

Within the Epic section, select the option to create a new epic, triggering the epic creation process.

Click on button on the top ribbon of the view.


The new Epic form will now appear.


On the Form, fill in the fields.

Fields

Description

Name

Name for the epic that states the high-level business case.

Product

Product associated with this epic. You can associate an epic with only one product at a time.

Priority

Priority of the epic. This field is automatically set to 4 - Low. we can change it as per requirement.

Status

Status of the epic. Select one of the following:

Draft: The story requirements, such as the description and acceptance criteria, are still being drafted.

Ready: The story is ready for pickup by the development team.

Work in Progress: The development team is working on the story and recording the changes in the work notes field.

Complete: The development and testing efforts on the story are complete.

Cancelled: The story has been canceled.

This field is automatically set to Draft.

Short Description

Brief description of the epic.

Description

Detailed description of epic.

Create Release

A release has a start and end date during which several development iterations are completed. Releases are created by a product owner and contain user stories, sometimes from multiple products, and can also involve multiple teams.

In order to create Release, Navigate to Agile Development > Releases.

Click on button on the top ribbon of the view.


The new Release form will open.



On the Form, fill in the fields.

Fields

Description

Name

Name of the release.

Status

Current status of the release. The default is Draft.

Total committed points

Sum of all sprint points from the Sprints associated with this release.

Planned start date

Estimated start date of the release.

Planned end date

Estimated end date for the release.

Assigned to

User assigned to the release.

Short Description

Brief description of the release.

Description

Detailed description of the release.

Features:

1. Total committed points field is auto calculated from all sprint points from the Sprints associated with this release.

Create Sprint

The period of time during which the development team produces one or more stories is known as a sprint. Any length can be a sprint, although they usually take one to four weeks to complete.

Within the Sprints section, select the option to create a new sprint, triggering the sprint creation process.

Click on button on the top ribbon of the view.


The new Sprint form will now appear.



On the Form, fill in the fields.

Fields

Description

Name

Name for the sprint.

Planned Start date

Date that the sprint starts on.

Planned End date

Date that the sprint ends on.

Total committed points

Sum of all stories points from the Stories associated with this sprint.

Status

Define the status of that sprint. Default is set to Draft.

Product

Name the product with which the sprint is affiliated.

Release

Name the Release with which the sprint is affiliated.

Support Group

Define the support group that has been chosen for this sprint.

Short Description

Brief description of the sprint.

Description

Detailed description of the sprint.

Features:

  1. In Name field Product name and Planned Start date will automatically be associated with sprint name while that record is being saved.


  1. Total committed points field is auto calculated from all stories points from the Stories associated with this sprint.

  2. In the context of our release management, it is essential to ensure that we maintain just one active sprint within a given release at any given time. Attempting to add more than one active sprint within the same release will result in a system notification and prevent the action.


Create Stories

Create high-level definitions of your requirements in the form of stories in Agile Development.

Within the Stories section, select the Option to create a new story, triggering the story creation process.

Click on button on the top ribbon of the view.


The new Story form will open.



On the Form, fill in the fields.

Fields

Description

Story Number

System-generated unique number for the story.

Theme

Theme associated with the story.

A theme can have one or more stories, but a story can belong to only one theme at a time.

Epic

Epic associated with the story.

An epic can have one or more stories, but a story can belong to only one epic at a time.

Status

Status of the story. Select one of the following:

Draft: The story requirements, such as the description and acceptance criteria, are still being drafted.

Ready: The story is ready for pickup by the development team.

Work in Progress: The development team is working on the story and recording the changes in the work notes field.

Ready for Testing: The story is ready for pickup by a tester.

Testing: The tester is testing the story based on the requirements provided in the story.

Complete: The development and testing efforts on the story are complete.

Cancelled: The story has been canceled.

This field is automatically set to Draft.

Points

Number of points that indicate the estimated effort that is required to complete the story.

Product

Product that this story is associated with.

Release

Release that this story is associated with.

Due Date

Date when the story will be completed.

Support Group

Support Group associate with this story.

Assigned to

User who is working on the story. This field is available only when there is a value in Support group field.

Sprint

Sprint that this story is associated with.

Blocked

An indicator to show that there are issues that prevent the story from progressing.

Short description

A brief description of the story.

Description

A detailed description of the story.

Acceptance criteria

The functional criteria or testing results that are required to move this story to the Complete state.

Implementation criteria

Define steps how the story is developed.

Tester

Person who is going to test this story.

Backlog Story

An indicator to show that story is Backlog or not.

Create Scrum Task

In Agile development methodologies, a scrum task, also known as a subtask, is a smaller and more detailed piece of work that stems from a user story.

Scrum tasks help break down larger user stories into manageable and actionable units of work.

Within the Scrum Tasks section, select the option to create a scrum task, triggering the scrum task process.

Click on button on the top ribbon of the view.


The new Scrum task form will now appear.



On the Form, fill in the fields.

Fields

Description

Number

System-generated unique number for the task.

Priority

Priority for the task. Default value is set to 4 Low.

Type

Type of work involved. you can select one of the following:

Analysis

Coding

Documentation

Testing

Blocked

An indicator to show that there are issues that prevent the story from progressing. Default is set to No.

Points

Number of points that indicate the estimated effort that is required to complete the task.

Story

Story that this task is associated.

Status

Current status of the scrum task. The default status for a new scrum task is Draft.

Support Group

Support Group associate with this scrum task.

Assigned To

User who is working on the scrum task. This field is available only when there is a value in Support group field.

Short Description

Brief description of the scrum task.

Description

Detailed description of the scrum task.

Create Enhancement

Create an enhancement record using the Enhancements module. You can later review this record and create a development story for it.

Within the Enhancement section, select the option to create a new enhancement, triggering the enhancement creation process.

Click on button on the top ribbon of the view.


The new Enhancement form will now appear.



On the Form, fill in the fields.

Fields

Description

Number

System-generated number for the enhancement.

Priority

Priority assigned to the enhancement. Product owners can refer to this value when creating stories and scoping it into upcoming releases.

Status

Current status of the enhancement. The default is Draft.

Support Group

Support group value that will work on this enhancement.

Assigned To

User who is working on the enhancement. This field is available only when there is a value in Support group field.

Product

Product with which this enhancement is associated.

Short description

Brief description of the enhancement.

Description

Detailed description of the enhancement.

Create Defect

Track issues related to your product or feature by reporting defects in Agile Development.

Within the Defect section, select the option to create a new defect, triggering the defect creation process.

Click on button on the top ribbon of the view.


The new Defect form will appear.



On the Form, fill in the fields.

Fields

Description

Number

System-generated unique identifier for the defect.

Product

Product with which this defect is associated.

Type

Define the type of the defect.

Status

Current status of the defect. This field is automatically set to Draft.

Priority

Priority assigned to the defect. This field is automatically set to 4 - Low.

Change

Change number that is created for this defect.

Reported By

Specify person name who has created this defect.

Related Record

This defect is related to a Story or a test case.

Support Group

The group to which the defect belongs. Default is set to Help Desk.

Assigned To

User who is working on the defect. This field is available only when there is a value in Support group field.

Short description

Brief description of the defect.

Description

Detailed description of the defect.