Stories without subtasks
I often have small stories without or with just one subtask and I'm look for a best practice to handle those. Creating a sub task for small stories is sometimes inadequate effort.
From theoretical point of view a hybrid work item type - plan type and execution type at once- would solve that use case. But I assume, that's not possible.
How are others dealing with those very small stories?
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2 answers
Ralph Schoon (63.7k●3●36●48)
| answered Mar 11 '14, 6:13 a.m.
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER edited Mar 11 '14, 6:15 a.m.
Another option would be to create a new work item type based on the task work item category e.g. "SmallStory" and make it a Plan Item in planning, I think. That way it would have the estimation attributes but be at the level of a story. If you want, you could give it a complexity attribute as well.
However, in general I would agree to Krzysztof's approach. Comments
Krzysztof Kaźmierczyk
commented Mar 11 '14, 6:53 a.m.
In that case I would use Ralph recommendation.
Yes, I think I will try this...
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Hi Hans,
My understaning of story and epic is that this is work item aggregating certain functionality but does not require any implementation itself (eventually testing). I would create new Task for even small story just to preserve this philosophy. Comments
Dr. Hans-Joachim Pross
commented Mar 11 '14, 6:16 a.m.
| edited Mar 12 '14, 3:39 a.m.
JAZZ DEVELOPER
Hi Krzysztof,
>The task is just created to hold the efforts.
I agree with Sam on this. A Story by "definition" describes some business value that needs to be delivered. What you have is not a Story, just a Task. Whatever story might have caused the presentation to no longer be up to date should carry a task to update it. Or, worst case -- and it's not that bad -- have a Story "As a Release manager I need to keep all presentation and deliverable materials current" and add one or more tasks there.
For the reasons Sam points out, if you choose to create a new work item type, I'd test it first with the various reports you care most about to make sure you are happy with the results.
Your all are totally right.
Because 1 is not accepted in this case, I'm looking for the pros and cons of 2. and 3.
And at the moment I tend to try 3...
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