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How do I create a "start to finish" dependency?


Larry Quesada (132) | asked Nov 25 '08, 5:12 p.m.
I would like to establish "start to finish" dependencies in my iteration plan, and I am looking for a way that RTC can automatically calculate information for me based upon the relationships. I know that I can establish a "depends on" relationship between 2 tasks, but I do not see how RTC uses this relationship. Specifically, I am trying to understand:

1. Can I display the estimated completion date of a work item, where this date is calculated based upon the estimated time of the work item, the current date, the allocation of the owner to the team area and the finish date of any "blocking" work items? Actually, I would like to know if you can do this even if RTC does not take dependencies into account.

2. Can RTC provide me a warning when a work item will complete after the end of the iteration, taking into account that the work item depends upon another work item which has not finished? For example, task 1 will complete 1 day before the end of the iteraiton. Task 2, depends upon task 1 and takes 3 days to complete. Since task 2 will finish after the iteration ends, I want a warning.

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Johannes Rieken (1.2k1) | answered Nov 26 '08, 2:58 a.m.
lquesada wrote:
I would like to establish "start to finish" dependencies in
my iteration plan, and I am looking for a way that RTC can
automatically calculate information for me based upon the
relationships. I know that I can establish a "depends on"
relationship between 2 tasks, but I do not see how RTC uses this
relationship. Specifically, I am trying to understand:

1. Can I display the estimated completion date of a work item, where
this date is calculated based upon the estimated time of the work
item, the current date, the allocation of the owner to the team area
and the finish date of any "blocking" work items?
Actually, I would like to know if you can do this even if RTC does
not take dependencies into account.

2. Can RTC provide me a warning when a work item will complete after
the end of the iteration, taking into account that the work item
depends upon another work item which has not finished? For example,
task 1 will complete 1 day before the end of the iteraiton. Task 2,
depends upon task 1 and takes 3 days to complete. Since task 2 will
finish after the iteration ends, I want a warning.


Currently that is not possible. We have had some ideas that are pretty
similar to what you described and we like it. However, we are not (yet)
committed for 2.0. Based on this post I have filed an enhancement
request. Feel free to subscribe.

https://jazz.net/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/65069

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Cheers, Johannes
Agile Planning Team

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