Watch the Intro to ClueMapper screencast

[Nate Aune]

I just put together an 8 min screencast about ClueMapper (http://blip.tv/file/1238561) which describes the following features:

- Personal Dashboard

- Creating a new project

- Setting email notification preferences 

- Changing the theme

- Adding components

- Managing users across several projects 

- Creating a new user

- Giving users access to project

- Making custom user profile fields

- Managing user access to SVN repository

- Adding a new ticket

- Assigning a ticket to a user

- Time tracking and reporting

- Subscribing to RSS feed of activity timeline

Things which aren't shown since they are well-known features of Trac:

- Browsing subversion repository

- Making and editing a wiki page

- Making a custom report

See the screencast here:

http://blip.tv/file/1238561

Comments and feedback are most welcome!

Nate

--
Nate Aune - na...@jazkarta.com
Plone 3 Developer Training in Austin, TX (Sep. 29 - Oct. 1)
http://austinplonetraining-natesig.eventbrite.com

http://nateaune.com (personal blog)
http://jazkarta.com (open source technology solutions)
http://twitter.com/natea (daily updates)

[Christopher Johnson]

Hey Nate,

This is a nice intro - thanks for the info. After giving a runway twirl of ClueMapper features, it leaves me wondering about some things that may lead to other screencasts.

In particular, I would want to know how to use it to actually organize work.

Perhaps a way to organize could be more task/goal oriented:
1. set up a new project (ie create project, add users, etc)
2. organize work (gather and enter requirements, organize into milestones/iterations, make estimates, etc)
3. daily maintenance (logging time, checking progress, finding your tasks, etc)

Ok, well now I am going to check out our screencast script for agilito and see if we applied the same logic :D

Cheers,
Chris

--
Cofounder and CEO
ifPeople - Innovation for People
www.ifpeople.net
t: 678-608-3408

We're currently looking for a Project Manager to join out team! Check out ifpeople.net for more.

[Nate Aune]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your feedback. My comments are below...

> This is a nice intro - thanks for the info. After giving a runway twirl of
> ClueMapper features, it leaves me wondering about some things that may lead
> to other screencasts.

Yeah, this was intended to be an intro to Cluemapper with the
expectation that most people watching the screencast would already be
familiar with Trac. So I focused on showing the features which are
unique to Cluemapper and enhance Trac in some way.

But I agree that making some screencasts for those unfamiliar with how
things work in Trac is essential.
Gerry also suggested breaking the 8 min video out into smaller
segments, probably 2 min or less which show a particular subset of
features. That way, folks could jump around and just watch the
screencasts of the features they're most interested in.

> In particular, I would want to know how to use it to actually organize work.
>
> Perhaps a way to organize could be more task/goal oriented:
> 1. set up a new project (ie create project, add users, etc)

Yes, this was covered in this intro screencast but it could be a
separate video called "Getting started" or something like that.

> 2. organize work (gather and enter requirements, organize into
> milestones/iterations, make estimates, etc)

This is the part that hasn't been fully fleshed out yet. We are
expecting that Agilo might satisfy some of these goals (requirements,
stories, iteration planning, etc) but we still have to kick the tires
of Agilo to see if it's something we want to commit to including with
Cluemapper. The way Rocky is going with Dojo, we might end up writing
this functionality all in AJAX since it makes for a very pleasant user
experience.

> 3. daily maintenance (logging time, checking progress, finding your tasks, etc)

This was also covered to some degree in the screencast, at least
booking hours and seeing what tasks are assigned to you. The overall
progress is indicated on the Roadmap screen which shows how many
active tickets are remaining for the current iteration. This is a
mockup of how we envision the personal dashboard looking when you
visit the start page of a particular project.
http://flickr.com/photos/cluemapper/2786203120/sizes/o/

> Ok, well now I am going to check out our screencast script for agilito and
> see if we applied the same logic :D

Do you have a URL to the Agilito screencast? I'd like to take a look
at it. Also, is the code publicly available? It's built with Django,
right?

Nate

[Christopher Johnson]

Hey Nate,

Thanks for the reply. See comments below (mostly near bottom).

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Nate Aune <na...@jazkarta.com> wrote:

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your feedback. My comments are below...

> This is a nice intro - thanks for the info. After giving a runway twirl of
> ClueMapper features, it leaves me wondering about some things that may lead
> to other screencasts.

Yeah, this was intended to be an intro to Cluemapper with the
expectation that most people watching the screencast would already be
familiar with Trac. So I focused on showing the features which are
unique to Cluemapper and enhance Trac in some way.

But I agree that making some screencasts for those unfamiliar with how
things work in Trac is essential.
Gerry also suggested breaking the 8 min video out into smaller
segments, probably 2 min or less which show a particular subset of
features. That way, folks could jump around and just watch the
screencasts of the features they're most interested in.

> In particular, I would want to know how to use it to actually organize work.
>
> Perhaps a way to organize could be more task/goal oriented:
> 1. set up a new project (ie create project, add users, etc)

Yes, this was covered in this intro screencast but it could be a
separate video called "Getting started" or something like that.

Right -the suggestion was more along the lines of potential way to break them up, not trying to say it wasn't covered.

> 2. organize work (gather and enter requirements, organize into
> milestones/iterations, make estimates, etc)

This is the part that hasn't been fully fleshed out yet. We are
expecting that Agilo might satisfy some of these goals (requirements,
stories, iteration planning, etc) but we still have to kick the tires
of Agilo to see if it's something we want to commit to including with
Cluemapper. The way Rocky is going with Dojo, we might end up writing
this functionality all in AJAX since it makes for a very pleasant user
experience.

Ahha, got it.

> 3. daily maintenance (logging time, checking progress, finding your tasks, etc)

This was also covered to some degree in the screencast, at least
booking hours and seeing what tasks are assigned to you. The overall
progress is indicated on the Roadmap screen which shows how many
active tickets are remaining for the current iteration. This is a
mockup of how we envision the personal dashboard looking when you
visit the start page of a particular project.
http://flickr.com/photos/cluemapper/2786203120/sizes/o/

> Ok, well now I am going to check out our screencast script for agilito and
> see if we applied the same logic :D

Do you have a URL to the Agilito screencast? I'd like to take a look
at it. Also, is the code publicly available? It's built with Django,
right?

Ok, so Gerry has been experimenting with screencasting (and isn't around today to get upset for sharing his initial ones ;) so you can check out:
- iteration planning: http://blip.tv/file/1253967/

That will at least give you a sense of the interface in one small part (and some data entry). No flashy ajax yet, but rather complete system for:

Track iterations, user stories, tasks, test cases, test results in a simple, as an easy to use agile project management tool. In particular -

5 screens to easily manage your project:

• Easy to read summary screens on Iteration status, showing burndown chart and state of each user story
• Find the running total of logged hours versus estimates for an iteration
• Summary screen to find and manage all information related to a user story
• Log your hours against tasks and easily update the state of task also
• Backlog screen for storing and refining requirements (unscheduled work)
  

Specifics:
Use the Django administration screen to:

• Add users and assign them permissions to projects
• Add projects
• Add iterations

In Agilto's UI:

• Add/edit/delete user stories
• Add/edit/delete tasks on user stories
• Add/delete attachments on user stories
• Add/edit/delete test cases on user stories
• Add/edit/delete test results on test cases
• Export task logs to csv
  

To do:

• Capacity
• Releases
• Advanced reporting of hours
  

We  are working on a bit of cleanup pre-Plone Conference and trying to get a demo site up. We tried to get the latest ClueMapper for Agilito but we ran into problems and couldn't get it working. In the next couple weeks we will be sharing more (once we get some infrastructure up to do that).

In the meantime, if you want a more in-depth demo, perhaps we can just do a web conference. Just let me know.

Cheers,
Chris