Agile Development Modeling?
Hi!
I work for a company that is interested in an issue tracking system capable of Agile modeling (tasks rolled up into stories rolled up into iterations, etc). Specifically, we'd like something capable of tracking the time estimates for specific tasks (and having the stories automatically update their time estimates to be the sum of their issues; and the same for iterations updating their estimates to be the sum of their stories).
I was wondering if anyone out there has attempted to use Gemini for such a purpose. Two uses immediately come to mind, but are flawed:
a) one could implement the iteration/story/task model using (project or release)/component/issue. This will get you the hierarchy you're looking for, but it doesn't appear to me that anything about the component entry can really be customized. You can log time estimates in the issues just fine, but you are seemingly incapable of having a component with a 'time requirement' equal to all issues corresponding to it. The same seems to apply to the iteration listing.
b) alternatively, one could simply label all aspects of the development (tasks, stories, and iterations) as issues within Gemini. Simply give an iteration outbound 'related to' links to its stories, and give stories outbound 'related to' links to their tasks. This could work; it's not pretty, but at least you could assign time estimates to stories and iterations easily.
We are looking, ideally, for something a little cleaner than b) that allows stories and iterations to update their time estimates when their composing tasks and stories, respectively, are changed. Something like a) that allowed components/releases to track time automatically would be wonderful, too.
Has anybody tried anything like this? If so, please offer me some feedback on it! If it's at all possible, I'd rather have the company continue to use Gemini for its new development practices than have to switch to something like XPlanner.
(now, if we could somehow have both in one app, that'd be a dream come true. :) )
Thanks for your help!
Chris
edited for a ps: if it is relevant information, we are currently using 2.2.6. Thanks!
tirgsx
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