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Getting More out of our Action Items (3 Comments)

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:24:43 +0000

One thing we have been trying to improve on is our Action Items that come out of our Sprint Retrospective. Does anyone have any good advice, or could point me to good resources on this topic? In particular, how can we remove ambiguity out of our action items, and how can we create reallistic and meaningful action items that reflect our "what we need to improve on" conversation.

Thanks!

Kevin

Disappearing Posts, Tool, and Features (4 Comments)

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:45:34 +0000

Thread by Shawn Samuel

There was a post called “External Access to Rally Reports via the Login API” which was located at: http://agilecommons.org/posts/181e0bf900

This post seems to have been removed, and the link above now goes to an error page. What happened to the post?

There was a tool that was mentioned in that post called the "API Encoding Tool", which was located at: https://rally1.rallydev.com/slm/mashup/1.15/html/EncoderPage.html

This tool seems to be gone, and instead the page redirects to the Rally homepage (as if you were not logged in).

All of this stems from research into reports/complaints I have received recently from across our company that users are getting errors when looking at our SharePoint project information sites, specifically when they try to view Rally reports. We initially thought it was a SharePoint problem, or a connection problem, but it seems that in place of the reports, executives at our company are getting the following message: "This external chart api has been disabled. Please contact Rally Support at RallySupport@rallydev.com if you have any questions."

This seemed to be a nonsensical message, since the tool was distributed here on the Agile Commons forums, and I had the discussion and tools bookmarked. - Which of course leads to finding that the tool and discussion have been deleted.

What is going on? Removal of functionality without forewarning, removal of threads/discussions related to that functionality, removal of tools associated with that functionality – all without any public notification to all users of Rally. It all seems rather draconian, and makes myself (and others I work with) question whether we can count on any functionality in Rally just not simply disappearing one day without us ever being told.

Recent Activity Dashboard Panel List Size (6 Comments)

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:20:38 +0000

Thread by Chris Williams

I really like the recent activity dashboard item but have a few comments/questions about it.

1) Is there any way to change the number of items shown? It is only showing a few and I don't know if that is because of a limit or that all of the recent activity so far.

2) Is there any way to access the recent activity information somewhere else in Rally? I don't see a default panel anywhere. Maybe there is a way to create a custom mashup?

Thanks!

Chris

Test Steps import ruby script (1 Comment)

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:55:31 +0000

Thread by Aislinn

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We would like to be able to import actual test steps along with our test cases.

At the moment using the import template the ability to include test steps does not seem to be included.

I did see in a previous post mention of a ruby script which could possibly provide this functionality?

http://agilecommons.org/posts/f5ac429a9e

Would it be possible to get more details on this?

Many thanks

Link

http://agilecommons.org/posts/f5ac429a9e

Tracking Split Stories (3 Comments)

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:20:14 +0000

Thread by Nava Bar-Sagi (SA Adm : 30419)

Hi,

I am a program manager, in my organization we use Rally as our planning tracking tool.

Currently, in case that the scrum team does not complete a story during an iteration we use to split the story.

Unfortunately, sometimes a story is being split several times (instead of initially estimate the story properly). I need a way to track on these stories without having to search manually for each story whether it has continuous stories on later iterations and without having to count them.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Nava

Sort the release and iteration drop-down list (1 Comment)

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:00:21 +0000

Thread by Vic1441

We have many products with different release and iterations so the dropdown list at Plan > User Stories tab is long. The list is not sorted in any chronological order that user can quickly identify release or iteration they need to select. This is causing user problems since they have to guess work they way through the list to find item that they need. I'm trying to support our users and I'm getting many calls on why can't they find the release of iteration they need on the list.

We need a easy method of sorting the release and iteration drop-down display list!

Recent Activity Dashboard - Viewing across multiple child projects from a child (1 Comment)

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:52:26 +0000

Thread by Scott Thomas

In our workspace we have a main Parent project. Within that parent we have multiple child projects which have their own releases and iterations.

Is it possible to be in child project 1 and from the dashboard be able to see all activity from all child projects? Or do I need to switch to the Parent project while on the My Home tab in order to see what I'm looking for?

What affect does the "Follow Global Project Settings" option have on the recent activity widget? Seems like it would be the setting that would let me see activity from all projects in the same parent, but it is not working like that.

Confusion with Parent - Child Relationships (2 Comments)

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:06:05 +0000

Thread by Priti Shilotri

I'm not sure why, but I can see my parent User Stories or Tasks, from my Childern projects but I can't see the User Stories or Tasks, from the Parent project.

Did we set up something wrong? Or am I missing a functionality as to why I can see bottom up and not top down?

It would be more useful for my company to see from top down, any suggestions on what I'm missing.

Thanks,

Priti

Release and iteration start and end dates -- factoring in pre and post time (3 Comments)

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:11:36 +0000

Thread by TrevinC

A quick best practice question about start and end dates in Rally for both Release and Iteration level.

We currently use two 2-week sprints per release, with some lag time (5 days) of overhead for dealing with our company wide operations team, legal reviews, etc, that we cannot get rid of.

For the "Release" start and end dates, should I include my release planning date? On our team, we do Release planning for a day, 1 day gap, then jump into iteration planning.

Question 1: Should I set the release start date to be the day we start release planning or the first day of iteration planning?

For iteration planning, we have some post-iteration activities (the 5 days I mentioned earlier). Do I include that time at all in either the Release start+end, or Iteration start+end? If I include it in the iteration dates, the burn down charts are not accurate since it's falsely thinking that time is available for task completion when it's really not.

Just trying to get a sense of best practices for this.

How to rename or delete tags? (1 Comment)

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:14:49 +0000

Thread by K-Dog Rocky Mountain

How do I delete or rename a tag that I have created to make its intention clearer?