visual cues for blocked/blocking work items
Hi,
When viewing a plan, I'd like a quick way to see if a particular work item is blocking or is blocked by another work item (based on a relationship link in the Links tab).
My first thought is that a decorator icon overlaying the workitem's normal icon would be a good visual cue, but I don't see that today. I see that Enhancements 59096 and 29830 mention this capability, so I'll follow along to see if those make it into a future release.
My second thought was to try and add a colorize rule based on a blocked/blocking attribute. I added a rule with an expression for "verification: blocks", but this didn't give me the results I was hoping for (I'm probably not understanding the verification: blocks expression).
Anyone with ideas on how to expose a blocked/blocking relationship in a plan editor?
Thanks, ...Jim
When viewing a plan, I'd like a quick way to see if a particular work item is blocking or is blocked by another work item (based on a relationship link in the Links tab).
My first thought is that a decorator icon overlaying the workitem's normal icon would be a good visual cue, but I don't see that today. I see that Enhancements 59096 and 29830 mention this capability, so I'll follow along to see if those make it into a future release.
My second thought was to try and add a colorize rule based on a blocked/blocking attribute. I added a rule with an expression for "verification: blocks", but this didn't give me the results I was hoping for (I'm probably not understanding the verification: blocks expression).
Anyone with ideas on how to expose a blocked/blocking relationship in a plan editor?
Thanks, ...Jim
4 answers
+1 on all these ideas.
I always think that anything we can do to make the x-team collaboration
more clear in the tool is goodness.
There is something that is cool though that we use quite a lot. You can
create a query which shows all the work items in the current iteration
which are blocked by another work item (your dependency on other teams)
and work items you own that block others. The results of those two
queries are critical in keeping both the teams that depend on your happy
and a reminder about who your friends are (eg, those fixing the things
you need <g>)
HTH,
Jean-Michel
On 8/14/2009 1:38 PM, jimmcvea wrote:
I always think that anything we can do to make the x-team collaboration
more clear in the tool is goodness.
There is something that is cool though that we use quite a lot. You can
create a query which shows all the work items in the current iteration
which are blocked by another work item (your dependency on other teams)
and work items you own that block others. The results of those two
queries are critical in keeping both the teams that depend on your happy
and a reminder about who your friends are (eg, those fixing the things
you need <g>)
HTH,
Jean-Michel
On 8/14/2009 1:38 PM, jimmcvea wrote:
Hi,
When viewing a plan, I'd like a quick way to see if a particular work
item is blocking or is blocked by another work item (based on a
relationship link in the Links tab).
My first thought is that a decorator icon overlaying the workitem's
normal icon would be a good visual cue, but I don't see that today.
I see that Enhancements 59096 and 29830 mention this capability, so
I'll follow along to see if those make it into a future release.
My second thought was to try and add a colorize rule based on a
blocked/blocking attribute. I added a rule with an expression for
"verification: blocks", but this didn't give me the results
I was hoping for (I'm probably not understanding the verification:
blocks expression).
Anyone with ideas on how to expose a blocked/blocking relationship in
a plan editor?
Thanks, ...Jim
+1 on all these ideas.
I always think that anything we can do to make the x-team collaboration
more clear in the tool is goodness.
There is something that is cool though that we use quite a lot. You can
create a query which shows all the work items in the current iteration
which are blocked by another work item (your dependency on other teams)
and work items you own that block others. The results of those two
queries are critical in keeping both the teams that depend on your happy
and a reminder about who your friends are (eg, those fixing the things
you need <g>)
HTH,
Jean-Michel
On 8/14/2009 1:38 PM, jimmcvea wrote:
I always think that anything we can do to make the x-team collaboration
more clear in the tool is goodness.
There is something that is cool though that we use quite a lot. You can
create a query which shows all the work items in the current iteration
which are blocked by another work item (your dependency on other teams)
and work items you own that block others. The results of those two
queries are critical in keeping both the teams that depend on your happy
and a reminder about who your friends are (eg, those fixing the things
you need <g>)
HTH,
Jean-Michel
On 8/14/2009 1:38 PM, jimmcvea wrote:
Hi,
When viewing a plan, I'd like a quick way to see if a particular work
item is blocking or is blocked by another work item (based on a
relationship link in the Links tab).
My first thought is that a decorator icon overlaying the workitem's
normal icon would be a good visual cue, but I don't see that today.
I see that Enhancements 59096 and 29830 mention this capability, so
I'll follow along to see if those make it into a future release.
My second thought was to try and add a colorize rule based on a
blocked/blocking attribute. I added a rule with an expression for
"verification: blocks", but this didn't give me the results
I was hoping for (I'm probably not understanding the verification:
blocks expression).
Anyone with ideas on how to expose a blocked/blocking relationship in
a plan editor?
Thanks, ...Jim
You can create a query which shows all the work items in the current iteration which are blocked by another work item (your dependency on other teams) and work items you own that block others. The results of those two
queries are critical in keeping both the teams that depend on your happy
and a reminder about who your friends are (eg, those fixing the things
you need <g>)
HTH,
Jean-Michel
Ah, that's a handy tip. thanks. Now, what I'd like to do is to add those two queries to the "Related Work Items" section of the plan's right panel (just to make it more convenient :-) ), but I'll settle for putting them in my Favorites list and sharing them with my team.
Thanks, ...Jim
jimmcvea wrote:
Thanks for your input. We had a similar idea a while a ago. It should be
similar to mark occurrences in the Java editor. Select a work item and,
based on certain link types, further work items are highlighted
(colored) or filtered. Pls comment on this work item:
https://jazz.net/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/69843
--
Cheers, Johannes
Agile Planning Team
Hi,
When viewing a plan, I'd like a quick way to see if a particular work
item is blocking or is blocked by another work item (based on a
relationship link in the Links tab).
My first thought is that a decorator icon overlaying the workitem's
normal icon would be a good visual cue, but I don't see that today.
I see that Enhancements 59096 and 29830 mention this capability, so
I'll follow along to see if those make it into a future release.
My second thought was to try and add a colorize rule based on a
blocked/blocking attribute. I added a rule with an expression for
"verification: blocks", but this didn't give me the results
I was hoping for (I'm probably not understanding the verification:
blocks expression).
Anyone with ideas on how to expose a blocked/blocking relationship in
a plan editor?
Thanks, ...Jim
Thanks for your input. We had a similar idea a while a ago. It should be
similar to mark occurrences in the Java editor. Select a work item and,
based on certain link types, further work items are highlighted
(colored) or filtered. Pls comment on this work item:
https://jazz.net/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/69843
--
Cheers, Johannes
Agile Planning Team