How does the cross-project planning feature work?
Davit Grigoryan (27●1●7●10)
| asked Jun 23 '12, 5:15 p.m.
edited Jul 03 '12, 4:47 p.m. by Geoffrey Clemm (30.1k●3●30●35)
I wanted to know how does cross-project plan works if you want to track work item that is also associated with another timeline all together. Looks like I can't find the functionality info docs that gives you in debt detail and some examples.
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Ralph Schoon (63.1k●3●36●46)
| answered Jul 02 '12, 10:14 a.m.
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OK, it seems fairly simple. The Master Plan shows the elements on its timeline directly. Think of them as the top level management items that track all the fiddly bits. E.g a story or an epic.
You can configure a relationship to follow e.g. parent->child or some other that is based on the link types. When loading the master plan will show the work items that qualify underneath the work item on its iteration. Assume Story1->Task1 (parent child or another relationship) if you configure the plan view display for a relationship (In the new¬eworthy contribute->tracks), the plan will show all those related elements (Task1) underneath the root element (Story1), regardless in which project or which timeline it is assigned to. This is what you want. In your case the master plan would be for the team/timeline that is used to manage the stories and you pull in child tasks. PS: You need to play with the parent->child or child->parent directions a bit. Comments
Ralph Schoon
commented Jul 02 '12, 10:14 a.m.
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I had asked for waht you describe in https://jazz.net/jazz/web/projects/Rational%20Team%20Concert#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=114135 |
The new CrossProjectPlan is just a new plan template based on the new plan view tree options capability, which allowing to do a workbreakdown not only on Parent/Child but also on other link types and you can also choose the direction of the workbreakdown. In the CrossProjectPlan the predefined tree is based on link types Tracks/Contributes to. This new link type is specially usefull, if you want to track work done on different project areas or specially (and unique for this link type) from different Jazz instances. But this new link type has many limitations which makes the usecases today very limited. Specially in the area of Scrum Projects contributing to a System Project. See also work items: Tracked Work Items in a Cross Project Plan are showing incomplete or missleading informations Cross project plan does not consolidate progress/load from tracked workitems in the plan details One great enhancement in 4.0 in this area, is the fact, that one level of outplaced items (e.g. children) are displayed in the plans, and also progress is reported up this links. In 3.0.1 only outplaced parents where displayed and you "lost" the childrens and the progress of them if they were on other timelines or iterations. This means you can do plans over different timelines just by using Parent/Child or Resolves/Resolved by. WIth this link types you get all informations you need to track e.g. a system project. This works at least within the same Project Area. |
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Ralph Schoon (63.1k●3●36●46)
| answered Jul 02 '12, 8:48 a.m.
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David,
have you looked here: https://jazz.net/downloads/rational-team-concert/releases/4.0?p=news in the browser find "Cross Project plan". It is very few information, if you want to have a closer look, I would suggest to setup a small test system. You can run a test instance e.g. with 10 free developers if you like. I use test systems all the time. Comments Hi Ralph, Thanks for the link. I have created 4.0 Sandbox in jazz.net profile, but per instructions I needed to create multiple project Areas to use the cross project sample, but due to the limitation what you can and can't do from the sample sandbox I was not able to create multiple project areas to test this out. Even than our organization will configure one Project Area for RTC and have plans for mutliple projects within the same project area. Do you know if cross project works with only multiple project areas or could be within the same area? |
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Ralph Schoon (63.1k●3●36●46)
| answered Jul 02 '12, 9:19 a.m.
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Hi, as far as I can tell from just creating it the cross project plan works also within a single project. I assume the added benefit in this scenario could be tracking work items that are in different timelines. I haven't relly had time to play around with it. What do you need that exceeds the other plan types?
With test system I was trying to suggest to setup a local test server with tomcat/derby for playing around. Comments Thanks again for the quick respond. What I need is to track Stories that spans multiple timelines and with the current Plans in 3.01 this is impossible. With the Cross-Project as part of the selection of Iteration is selecting single timeline and I don't see how is this tracking multiple timelines if the required field is to select single timeline as part of the cross project setup? |
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