Roadmap in Sprint Plan disappears after adding Tasks
I have a similar question asked in https://jazz.net/forum/questions/82737/using-roadmap-to-view-sprint-plan-but-the-gantt-chart-shows-nothing , but recommended solution does not solve my problem.
Web-UI of RTC 3.0.1.2 is used. I've created a Release Backlog Plan and Sprint Plans with Epics and Stories. All can be seen in the Roadmap view and give a nice overview. As soon as I add Tasks, the parent Story and Epic is not displayed in the Roadmap view anymore, e.g: Epic spans Sprint1 and Sprint2. Sprint1 has Story1 and Sprint2 has Story2 defined. I see a long bar for the Epic spanning Sprint1/2 and underneath 1 Bar for Story1 in Sprint1 and another Bar for Story2 in Sprint2. When I add Tasks to Story 1 the Bars in Sprint1 disappears for the Epic and Story1. Bars in Sprint2 are still visible, Epic and Story2. Categories and Plans are all are assigned/owned to/by the same team and people are all part of that team. What am I doing wrong ? |
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Millard Ellingsworth (2.5k●1●24●31)
| answered Jan 03 '13, 6:55 p.m.
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Hi, Horst.
I've tried this with a 4.0.1 server and my initial impression is "it's all fun and games until there's a concrete assignment". Like you, I had nice, long bars spanning two sprints for the epic and the sprint for the story. Then I added a task and the bars disappeared. Then I assigned the task and gave it an estimate -- and the bars came back, though the story bar now brackets only the task bar.
I expect the scheduler, without real tasks and timeframes, simply calculates the bar to be the length of the sprint(s) -- what else can it do? But as soon as you give it real information about durations and assignments it's able to adjust and calculate something meaningful (which will at first be much shorter in length until you get the full schedule built up).
Can you give that a try and see if it behaves as you'd expect? If you are still seeing issues, I'll find a 3.0.1 server and repeat my experiment.
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Comments Millard,
Firstly, do the tasks have owners as well as estimates?
The behavior I see in 4.0.1 seems to be appropriate, so assuming we're talking about the same thing, it appears to behave correctly. I'll also track down a 3.0.1 server to see what differences there may be in the behavior.
It looks like this is behavior that improves in 4.0.1. On a 3.0.1.4 server, I also see the bar for Sprint 1 simply go away after adding a task. Assigning the task, giving it an estimate, saving everything and refreshing the plan does not bring it back. Millard,
Millard,
Hi, Horst. Sorry to hear that you are still having issues with this. Have you modified the process template? If so, is it reasonable for you to share it?
In my previous follow-up I was using a out-of-the-box scrum template and while the bar changed size once tasks were added (making it much smaller to match the tasks' duration) it didn't disappear. Any chance the length of your iteration and the size of your estimates just causes the bar to be "drawn" so small it disappears? If you zoom in on the roadmap is it still missing? Sorry to be grasping at straws but I don't see what you see using the same version of the software.
Millard, I've some good news. All of a sudden the bars are showing up as expected, actually 2 days after the upgrade. So 4.0.1 seems to be the solution. I can observe that there is a delay between creating and estimating task and the correct presentation in the roadmap view. Which delay is expected ? Any way to accelerate ?
That's awesome that it is working now, thanks for following up.
As to the delay, I'm presuming it is related to your overall system performance. Each change is likely to cause a recalculation (which is done asynchronously). The more complicated the plan, the more burden on the server, the longer it takes.
That said, in my small test project, I did not notice a delay (though it was an optimal environment). How long of a delay are you seeing after making a change that would affect the schedule?
Millard,
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