Hi Dietmar,
> First I am wondering on how to define "working days". If I create a
> sprint from 7.1.2010 to 21.1.2010 Agilo calculates this as 12 working
> days. But we don't work on saturdays (and neiter on sundays ;-)...
This should definitely not be the case. To understand this better, could
you please elaborate on the timezones used on the server and on the clients?
Also at what time does the sprint start and end? It may be that we have
bugs in the calculations that try to mesh the timezones with the concept
of working days (which turns out to be quite hard).
> Secend question is about backlogs. How can I create multiple Backlogs
> (Product 1 Backlog, Retrospective Backlog, ...) and put Req, Stories,
> Tasks in them which only show up in the one backlog I entered them. If
> I create entries in one backlog they are visible in all of them.
> Notice that I cannot set the strict option because we do priorization
> meetings where we put entries to milestones. Setting strict doesnt
> show any story at all for me.
This is interesting. In Agilo the Backlogs filter by type - so if you
want an item to show only in a specific backlog, you need to create
custom types for that backlog.
That way you have full controll in which backlogs you want to show them.
I'd like to note however that due to a current bug remaining time on
custom types will not be counted for the capacity - we will probably fix
that in this or the next release.
> Third question is about planning. I personally think that one of the
> big benefits of scrum is planning in the meaning that I could do an
> estimation of the project end (milestone end) based on the current
> velocity. It would be nice if agilo would show a "project burndown
> chart" or even better a "milestone burndown chart" like the sprint
> burndown chart...
Yes it would. :-)
We are working on this as one of the next goals after we reworked the
backlog that supports these hooks more easily.
Best Regards,
Martin