Tracking time spent on pair-programmed work items
Hi,
Here's my proposed user story: --- As a pair programmer who is pairing with the owner of a work item, I would like to track my time spent against the work item, to ensure my progress and load bars accurately reflect what I have done and have to do. --- Since work items have a single owner, there seems to be an assumption that the owner is the only person who is going to spend time on that item. If two people (the owner and another) pair-program to complete a work item, there is no way to mark the time spent individually, within that work item. The 'Estimate' and 'Time Spent' are scoped to the work item and hence are used in the load and progress bars for the owner of the work item. A work around is to create a child task to cover the time spent by the other programmer in the pair, but this means extra tasks need to be opened and is less usable than it could be. Thanks, Jeremy |
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that is how we do it. we have a story and then we add tasks for each unique work item that can be assigned to a person. if two people are pair-programming then they have a separate tasks with no body description (its in the parent work item). the separate tasks are only for tracking time and changes are usually attached to a single work item that will get reviewed and approved by the architect. discussions are also placed in the parent work item.
tasks are pretty cheap to make and the method above is simple enough for the team. ciao! |
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