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RTC Planning: Constraint Type and Constraint Date in Scrum template.


Aradhya K (1.4k44345) | asked Jun 02 '12, 1:06 a.m.
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edited Jun 02 '12, 1:08 a.m.
Here is my test steps:
1. create enumeration "Constraint" with exactly same setting as FPM
 2. create customize attribute "constraint type" and "constraint date", use exactly same ID, Name and Type as in FPM for defect
3. add presentation for "constraint type" and "constraint date" 
4. add plan attribute for "constraint type" and "constraint date" (here the attribute id in process configuration source file is different from FPM)
5. then create a defect workitem with set     
    - constraint type: start no earlier than
    - constraint date: 5th Jun 2012, with is next month
6. In plan view, add "accumulated time" column
Result: in accumulated time, the workitem is start date is current time
Expecting: workitem start date been set to "constraint date", as what happen in FPM

Some features in FPM can be added to other process, e.g. time tracking, etc, is constraint type and constraint date is a part of that.

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Aradhya K (1.4k44345) | answered Jun 02 '12, 1:12 a.m.
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The dates in the accumulated is calculated by the scheduler. The scheduler in the scrum projects use the Agile scheduler and has different business rules for calculating the dates. The Agile Scheduler does not consider the Constraint date and time for the date calculation.
https://jazz.net/forum/questions/77901/rtc-planning-difference-between-the-accumulated-time-calculation-between-the-scrum-and-formal-projects has more information about the difference between both the schedulers

Some features in FPM can be added to other process, e.g. time tracking, etc, is constraint type and constraint date is a part of that 
No. We support only risk and time tracking formal project management features to an existing project using a different process template.The major underlying reason is that the process specification is some sort of meta description of the data stored in the data base and the meta description can't be exchanged so easily. Adding the xml snippet may change the scheduler to traditional, however we do not know how the existing data will be interpreted. This has not been tested and I would not recommend this to be suggested to the customer. There is an enhancement created to add this support Ability to add formal project management features to existing templates (212516)
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