Best practice to plan a workshop?
Hello
Say I have an upcoming 1/2 day workshop, which needs 12 out of the 15 person team to participate. How do I best record this with RTC?
So far, I see these possibilities:
* Ignore: Then for 12 people the available time in the current iteration is 4 hours too high.
* Add 12 work items, one for each participant. While the time problem is solved, it seems like too much admin work both for the planner, and for the individual participants (they have to "plan" it on the correct day, remember to "start working" on it at the right time, and remember to "resolve" it when the workshop is over).
* Modify the "scheduled absences" for all the participants: Since I can only plan in day increments, the time is now 4 hours too short, so this doesn't really work either.
What method is used in your daily work, and seems to work? Or did I overlook something in RTC?
Thanks! Martin
Say I have an upcoming 1/2 day workshop, which needs 12 out of the 15 person team to participate. How do I best record this with RTC?
So far, I see these possibilities:
* Ignore: Then for 12 people the available time in the current iteration is 4 hours too high.
* Add 12 work items, one for each participant. While the time problem is solved, it seems like too much admin work both for the planner, and for the individual participants (they have to "plan" it on the correct day, remember to "start working" on it at the right time, and remember to "resolve" it when the workshop is over).
* Modify the "scheduled absences" for all the participants: Since I can only plan in day increments, the time is now 4 hours too short, so this doesn't really work either.
What method is used in your daily work, and seems to work? Or did I overlook something in RTC?
Thanks! Martin
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Say I have an upcoming 1/2 day workshop, which needs 12 out of the 15 person team to participate. How do I best record this with RTC?
So far, I see these possibilities:
* Ignore: Then for 12 people the available time in the current iteration is 4 hours too high.
* Add 12 work items, one for each participant. While the time problem is solved, it seems like too much admin work both for the planner, and for the individual participants (they have to "plan" it on the correct day, remember to "start working" on it at the right time, and remember to "resolve" it when the workshop is over).
* Modify the "scheduled absences" for all the participants: Since I can only plan in day increments, the time is now 4 hours too short, so this doesn't really work either.
What method is used in your daily work, and seems to work? Or did I overlook something in RTC?
I think the best answer (not seemingly available at this time) would be to have everyone involved adjust their scheduled absences for a half-day. Probably worth submitting a Work Item to fix that.
Beyond that I think I'd just ignore it and make a point of leaving a tad more slack during the planning meeting to accommodate. The other Work Items are just estimated anyway and it's only 4 hours across 2 or more weeks (I'm guessing). Unless this happens often or planning available time exactly to the hour is crucial to your team's success, I can't imagine it is worth the admin overhead that you point out.
Hi Martin,
to get a correct result the only option you have is (b). For 2.0
we plan to improve the way how you can schedule those items (you will be
able plan them for a fixed start date). However we currently do not have
plans to support meeting items in 2.0 which would allow you to plan the
meeting more efficiently. I opened "64189: Provide support to plan a
meeting for a team" to add this behavior.
Regards Dirk
Agile Planning Component.
merzberger1 wrote:
to get a correct result the only option you have is (b). For 2.0
we plan to improve the way how you can schedule those items (you will be
able plan them for a fixed start date). However we currently do not have
plans to support meeting items in 2.0 which would allow you to plan the
meeting more efficiently. I opened "64189: Provide support to plan a
meeting for a team" to add this behavior.
Regards Dirk
Agile Planning Component.
merzberger1 wrote:
Hello
Say I have an upcoming 1/2 day workshop, which needs 12 out of the 15
person team to participate. How do I best record this with RTC?
So far, I see these possibilities:
* Ignore: Then for 12 people the available time in the current
iteration is 4 hours too high.
* Add 12 work items, one for each participant. While the time problem
is solved, it seems like too much admin work both for the planner,
and for the individual participants (they have to "plan" it
on the correct day, remember to "start working" on it at the
right time, and remember to "resolve" it when the workshop
is over).
* Modify the "scheduled absences" for all the participants:
Since I can only plan in day increments, the time is now 4 hours too
short, so this doesn't really work either.
What method is used in your daily work, and seems to work? Or did I
overlook something in RTC?
Thanks! Martin