I would like to be able to easily see the sum of remaining work (on a Feature) for each activity.
In this example-picture I have a Feature "Keys 0.1" that I would like to add to my sprint. Say I have 60hrs free in the sprint.
At first glance it looks like I can comfortably add the entire feature without any problems. BUT!
Lets say the sprint has room for 20h frontend work and 40h backend work. If that's the case then I cant really add this Feature since it's too much frontend and not enough backend. Our current sollution is to pretty much add stuff, checking if we're fine and removing if we're not.
Is it possible to somehow get "Sum of remaining work Frontend" and "Sum of remaining work Backend" as columns?
One thing I tried was to add 2 new custom fields: "Remaining work Frontend" and "Remaining work Backend". This works fine for the backlog, but when I added tasks to my sprint it didn't use those fields to calculate capacity/remaining time. Does anyone have any ideas of how to get a better overview of how much time something will take grouped by activity?
Get "Sum of remaining work Frontend" and "Sum of remaining work Backend" as columns
Steps:
Open process->select work item type->add new field Create a field Remaining work Frontend and Remaining work Backend(Type: Decimal).
Open Backlog page->Column Options->Add a rollup column->Configure custom rollup->select Roll up as Total and configure the sum column.
In addition, we cannot use these fields to calculate capacity/remaining time.
I hope it can help you.
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I am very much puzzled about using H5P in Moodle.
The idea is great, obviously, yet I cannot make it work as I expected.
My principles/idea:
There are bunch of activities in each course
Each activity can build up several Student's skills, say Creative Thinking or Problem Solving
After finishing each activity Student, based on the result, can go
to the next activity or re-do it if failed
For the testing purposes I set up 3 outcomes (0-30 > NO pass, 30-70 >
1 point, 71-100 > 2 points) in the H5P module - this one is working
fine.
The outcome should be passed to Moodle, so the course can then decide
what to do: pass with 1 or 2 points, or fail and request to do the
activity again
This outcome then will be added to Student's skillset
Say, I have this basic crossword. After finishing it the Student can achieve two Skills mentioned above yet still this depends on the outcome, eg. result 1 means 0 in Creative Thinking and +1 in Problem Solving, and/or 2 means +1 in Creative Thinking and +2 in Problem Solving.
The activity itself works as expected, as I mentioned above, see the images (note ONE point circled):
and , but then nothing happens.
The student is NOT taken to the next activity, all s/he can do is to retry same activity over and over again.
Is it possible to force Moodle/H5P to act as described above?
For the testing purposes I used two 'activities': one being 'h5p' itself and the other being 'lesson' with same h5p modules being added inside, see the image:
I run this all on WAMP
I tried to follow xAPI https://h5p.org/documentation/x-api
which resulted in js error:
Sorry for the long post - tried to cover everything.
If anybody knows the answers - this reply will be much appreciated.
Cheers,
Greg
I am discovering the Azure Delivery Plan but I don't understand why I don't see all my Features in there.
This is what I am talking about:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/plans/review-team-plans?view=azure-devops&tabs=plans-preview
I have looked at the Tags, owners, start/end dates, and so on but can not find any criteria which indicate why I see certain Features and not others.
I am also a member of the projects that I do not see.
Can anyone shed some light for me on this one?
In my test, if the dates of two iterations overlap, the features under the iteration will not be displayed.
For example:
If the date does not overlap, the features under the iteration will be displayed normally.
You can check if this is your case.
This one is actually on me and was kind of logical.
The features were on the backlog and didn't have any iteration assigned, hence, there were not showing below any iteration.
Thank you for the suggestions and feedback! Case closed!
My organization is trying to find an out of the box way with Azure DevOps to see which features were 'committed to' at the start of the release, and which are delivered. The Velocity report would be perfect, except Features are assigned to areas that are configured to run off of sprints that are child-iterations of larger release-iterations, and we want the data at the release-iteration level.
We're able to build queries that can mostly deliver this, but that method doesn't track changes, just shows you a current point in time view of how things are.
The goal is to have data we can use to evaluate if we're making commitments we can keep.
How have other organizations tackled this sort of problem? How do you tie committed vs. actuals at the Feature level?
I could understand your requirements. But based on my test, Velocity Report has some limitations:
For example:
If the Iteration Path has Child Iteration, it will show the child Iteration on Velocity Report. As you said , release-iteration will not show in the Report.
So it cannot meet all your needs.
I tested some related extensions and existing charts, and it seems that there is no tool that can improve or replace the Velocity Report .
For a workaround:
For Child Iteration, you still could use the Velocity Report to record the process.
For the Parent Iteration, you could create different queries to show the process(Planned
, Completed,Completed Late and so on). You can use query to get the work item list of the corresponding state.
Here are examples:
Planned :
Completed:
...
Then you could add them to the Dashboards(Query Title Widget):
On the other hand, this requirement is valuable.
You could add your request for this feature on our UserVoice site, which is our main forum for product suggestions.
I was looking on VSTS, but I didn't found how to estimate our Tasks/users story in hours instead of Story point.
Is this possible?
I know the pro(and cons) of story points, buf for now our team want to move progressively with agile, and we don't want to start to estimate in story points.
Thank you!
Edit as requested, I currently use the agile template(but open to change)
Declare "One story point is equal to one hour" and use the existing field as-is.
TL;DR
Use the built-in scrum template
If you use the built-in Scrum template Tasks have Remaining Work and PBI's have Effort. Nothing says Remaing Work = hours or Effort = story points.
If you want to estimate your tasks in number of 4 hour work blocks it will take to complete you can do that, if you want to do it in hours you can do that. Same goes for effort you can put any number in there you want as long as you make sure everyone in your team understands what 1 or 5 or 10 means.
So if possible switch to the scrum template, your question is exactly the reason why these fields have a more generic name than Story Points or Remaining Hours in the scrum template. Added bonus is that your team can switch definition if they feel like some other number or unit suits your estimation process better.
This blog post makes a good comparison between the built-in different templates:
https://nkdagility.com/choosing-a-process-template-for-your-team-project/
If you are an administrator in VSTS select the VSTS button at the top left of the screen. Then select then select the cog.
This will take you to a page where you can edit a number of settings. Select Process.
In the process window choose the process your project uses. You can see which one your project is using by the numbers on the right hand side of the process. Once you’ve found your process select it by clicking.
Then choose the work item type you wish to change. So in this instance user story.
Once in the task you want to change select add group and name the group want to add and select it's placement on the card.
When the group has been added select it and choose the ellipses (...). Then select Add Field. Customise the field to be either a new one of your choosing or choose a predefined one.
Once you have added this step repeat the process on this page to customise and style the task how you like. Once done navigate back to your project in VSTS and the changes will be applied
I have a report with 4 seperate sub-reports embedded into it.
On the main report, I have a parameter to filter by group and I have it set to filter by group unless you choose All for the parameter, then it shows all groups.
If {?Main Group Name} = "ALL" then {Incident.Group Name} like "*"
else {Incident.Group Name} = {?Main Group Name}
This filter setup works fine on the individual sub reports, however if I run it selecting "all" as part of the main group, it causes the sheet to loop indefinitely and doesn't show the data properly.
The data is in all Group header 1 and group footer 1, so ideally the same page(as below) should repeat for every group.
When I run it for all, It runs for an abnormally long time, and has to be manually stopped, otherwise it just keeps going. After manually stopping, I get the following. It almost looks like it's trying to render all the groups on top of each other.
Anyone have a clue what could cause this?
Where are your subreports located in the main report (group header)? What are you doing with the record details of the main report (suppressing, I'm guessing)? What do the record selection formulas look like, FROM the subreports? How many tables are in the subreports? If multi-table, are your joins correct?
I have seen occurrences when subreports have a given Record Selection, and then have links added from the main report, where the resulting subreport query is totally hosed as Crystal Reports "helps" by modifying the subreport record selection on top of what the developer intended. True Story (a 17 second report was updated and ran for 20 hours before anyone noticed it had never finished a scheduled run). It sounds (heh, in inter-text) like you don't have correct relationships set up in the subreports, and may actually have cartesean products being formed.
Where are you using your code shown in your question? In the Record Selection? In an #Formula? What kind of link are you using to the subreport? What "should" be linked to the subreports is the {Incident.Group Name} -- as that is what changes in the main report group.
If you break out the subreports, and run them individually, manually setting the {?Main Group Name} to "ALL" and then to sample group names, what is the result? If the individual subreports still run on, you can at least watch the record counts (status bar) and when you manually kill the report, you can look at the performance information, and at the subreport Show Query.
Lastly, if you try running the main as "ALL" using a Top 10 (or 2, or whatever number you want) and then watch the subreport performance, that might give some clues. If there are selection-hosation byproducts, this would at least limit the effects a bit. You'd still be passing "*" to the subreport, but only doing it "N" cycles.
Sigh, and one last: If you really want "all", you might be better served if you use something like:
If {?Main Group Name} = "ALL" then TRUE
else {Incident.Group Name} = {?Main Group Name}
Sorry to be so long... I didn't have enough time to shorten it.
OK, really, really LAST one: If I have misunderstood your post, assumed too many disparate themes, or am just talking out of my hat: Sorry. Missed a meal, picked up several interruptions, and doubled up on the coffee. I'm sure there's a smiley for that, somewhere.
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I think I understand the Group Header/Foot Charts.
Did you try running Main as a Top 10 to limit the # groups?
How big is the (chart) record set?
AND, is the report set up for asynchronous queries?
What IS going on in the subreports:
Complex query?
Simple query?
Suppressing all Details and just showing the Chart?
Going to a different table/database?
Table joins?
Run for "Top 10" Groups in main, wait until it ends, then check for the Main and each chart sub (for at least a few groups):
Report / Performance Information:
Total Number of Records -- (Main should be "Top 10" )
Performance Timing:
Run the Query,
Read Database Records,
Time to Format All Charts
or
Time to Format 1st Page.
If you have several millions of records, even with "top", it could take a while to read and calculate the top. If you are calling charting, even tho' it is for a single Group per chart, if the subreport still has to apply a linked query, parse millions of records, perform add'l calculations, create a chart (that still accounts for all records), etc., it can just be a long time running.
You may find that a small "All" Top "n" will show a lot of time being spent behind the scenes, and that allowing the whole report to run that the add'l Comparison of Ticket Counts is displayed. And if not, we can look at that later (mainly by opening up the corpse and looking inside).
I am trying to ascertain regular behaviour, and I can't get a requirements doc for review. I can only make assumptions and ask questions and make suggestions.