How to find stories that are "Planned For" as Unas

To find stories that are not assigned to an iteration, you would use a
query. For a story to show up in the Backlog iteration, you would need
to set Planned-For to be the Backlog iteration.

Note that logically, every new work item should not automatically go
into backlog ... they might be invalid, assigned to the wrong category, etc.

Cheers,
Geoff

On 11/16/2011 6:23 PM, troydugger wrote:

If someone creates a story and sets "Planned For" to
Unassigned, how do you find it? I was thinking it would just go to a
plan associated with a Backlog iteration. I read somewhere that there
could only be one Backlog iteration for a timeline. Is that still
true? Is this where I find stories that aren't planned??

Thanks,
Troy

That makes sense that you wouldn't want everything to go to the backlog. You might not want that choice visible to people not on the dev team so something doesn't sneak in without you knowing.

Too bad that I have to run a query periodically to find work items that are unassigned. Guess that is just part of a planning meeting.

Thanks.

To find stories that are not assigned to an iteration, you would use a
query. For a story to show up in the Backlog iteration, you would need
to set Planned-For to be the Backlog iteration.

Note that logically, every new work item should not automatically go
into backlog ... they might be invalid, assigned to the wrong category, etc.

Cheers,
Geoff

On 11/16/2011 6:23 PM, troydugger wrote:

If someone creates a story and sets "Planned For" to
Unassigned, how do you find it? I was thinking it would just go to a
plan associated with a Backlog iteration. I read somewhere that there
could only be one Backlog iteration for a timeline. Is that still
true? Is this where I find stories that aren't planned??

Thanks,
Troy

Too bad that I have to run a query periodically to find work items that are unassigned. Guess that is just part of a planning meeting.

For this I have a Query widget on top of the Project dashboard called "Inbox Unplanned Items". This list should be small or empty.
The responsible Person (e.g. Product Owner, Scrum Master, Project Leader) has to triage such items and assign them to backlog when the quality is good enough, reject it or assign to a person for clarification.

regards
Guido