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Thread posted Feb 24 by Shawn SamuelThere 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.
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
- Thread posted Jan 14 by Kevin Reiter
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
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
Thread posted 12/28/09 by Scott ThomasIn 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.
- Thread posted 12/11/09 by Vic1441 , tagged Product Management, Project Management, Requirements Management
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!
- Thread posted 12/08/09 by Priti Shilotri , tagged Product Management, Project Management, Requirements Management
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
- Thread posted 11/26/09 by K-Dog Rocky Mountain
How do I delete or rename a tag that I have created to make its intention clearer?
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.
We are following a slight modifed Agile approach as follows:
1. The Dev Team complete "N" User Stories in Sprint X.
2. The Test Team validates them in Sprint X+1 (unlike in the original Agile where the Test Team works on validating them in the same Sprint)
So in essence, The dev team keep delivering the sprints to the test team at the end of the sprint, and the test team takes them up in the consecutive sprint.
Now in this approach, I have a question on Rally Tool. When should the user story be marked as "A". If we dont do it at the end of the development Sprint, then Rally Tool generated "Velocity Graph" would show a zero value since it only takes into account those user stories that are marked as "A".
Is there any way to make Rally Tool consider User Stories that are marked as "C" for the Velocity graphs ?
Thanks
Kiran
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