How to keep track testing and design work items separately the best way in RTC?
We have a small team of designers and testers. Currently the sub-areas are quite fixed, but later people may move between areas to help out. We have one team defined for all people in RTC. We also have a backlog, some items are for testing area, some for design area.
As far as I understand, categories can be used to define the testing area and design areas, then work items can be assigned filed against those categories. So far so good. But I would like to know if the test team will be able to deal with their backlog, or are they short on people? What is the best way knowing it?
Is it possible to get a burndown chart for work items belonging to a certain category? The best would be to have burndown charts for all categories, so we could see that with the current speed some categories won't make a release.
Or maybe we should have separate teams defined as well for tetsing and design people? Separate backlogs too?
Accepted answer
I would suggest you to create two team areas and associate them with the testing and design categories. The structure of the project teams (project area) is defined by a hierarchy of team areas. You can then create plan for different team area to track each team's progress. There will be burndown chat for each plan, hence you can have burndown chat for each category. The following info center link provides further details on how to make use of team areas in RTC:
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/clmhelp/v4r0m5/index.jsp?re=1&topic=/com.ibm.jazz.platform.doc/topics/c_creating_team_areas_associating_categories.html&scope=null
Hope this will help.
Susan Wu
IBM Rational Software Advisory Team (RTC SWAT)