RTC & cross product Scrum teams
RTC as it is now does not seem to support this ?
The "product backlog" is actually a team backlog as RTC has a 1:1 team to work category (filed against) mapping. This is a serious issue in that we can't have a true (one) product backlog and have teams working on different products. The backlog is based on what team owns items!
Granted people can be allocated % wise in their profile to different teams and hence different products, but given that will change VERY dynamically it's not a practical option.
How do people get around this with RTC ?
We want a Scrum team to be able to pull work into a Sprint from multiple product backlogs without RTC flagging that the person pulling the work item does not belong to the team area associated with the product category.
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I didn't understand your comment about RTC flagging the person pulling the work item. Can you give a specific example of the set of actions in a specific GUI that produce this warning/error, and a copy of the specific warning/error message you are getting?
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we have the backlog and timelines set up as you describe.
Team-1 associated with Product1 (category in RTC set up) category is what work items are filed against.
Team-2 is associated with product2.
Now if we want team-2 to help out on product1, a team-2 member can pull work filed against product1 into their next sprint, but RTC shows a yellow exclamtion warning against the team-2 member.
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Plus the work item will show up in Team-1 Sprint plan (filed against) even though the task is being done by someone in team-2.
Remember that Filed-Against indicates what team should work on that work item, so if you want someone from Team-2 to work on a given work item, you either need to assign the Filed-Against of that work item to some category that is mapped to Team-2, or you need to add the appropriate members of Team-2 to Team-1.