Download User Stories From Rally
Goldie Ringgold
I want to find all "orphaned" user stories in Rally, where a user story does not belong to any feature. I know I need to set filter to((PortfolioItem = null) AND (Parent = null)) but where do I do that? Where do I start?Forgive my ignorance, I am new to Rally
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User stories should be written as small, independently, testable increments of the business need, and prioritized by the Product Owner. While Product Owners write functional user stories, the Scrum Team can contribute non-functional / technical stories. However, any non-functional user stories added to the Backlog must also be vetted and prioritized by the Product Owner. Overall, user stories should enable conversation between the Product Owner, Scrum Team, and business group(s).
During Sprint Grooming, groups of features / requirements, or Epics, are broken down into user stories by the Product Owner. Then Sprint Planning is used to estimate the level of effort to complete a user story through tasking by the Scrum Team.
My question is - should I add user stories with this new additional functionality to (almost) complete features? Or would it be a better option to create a new feature and dump all the new user stories in that?
My gut feeling in the former. It puts the new functionality/user stories in the correct feature categories which is easier to track and keeps everything organized. The con is, adding new stories to completed and now inactive features may turn them into 'incomplete' features. It's like revisiting the past.
And the reason is, as one answer mentions, that users don't know what they want, and they realize what they want when they see it. So you have to build things fast, put it in front of users, get feedback, gain insight, then decide what to build next, build it fast, put it in front of users, get feedback, etc. It's no longer about a plan that needs to be respected, and when people ask for changes or new features to say "well, that's not in the plan we agreed, let's agree on a change process, where we meet and discuss if it's worth straying from the plan". This is what the second answer mentions.
With that being said, going back to your question, it seems you are doing some sort of Agile (you mention Rally, user stories, weekly meetings, demo) so the answer to your question is that it's not a problem to add new stories to almost completed features, simply because features are never completed, only abandoned. Adding new stories to existing features or creating new features and attaching the stories there is now just a matter of how you would like to organize your process. For the features themselves the question is if the changes are needed or not, or if the changes need to be added now or can wait for some later release (i.e. the prioritization I mentioned above).
Next, when you roll-out your application for pilot trials, you will receive more feedback from actual users. Meaning your features are never going to be complete. So, go ahead and add these user stories to the appropriate features.
Rally is the agile management software which deals from User stories writing to the Iterations, Sprints, releases and defect management module too. During agile process Rally helps in giving the picture of the real time status of the project. The basic functionality in the Rally tool for a particular Agile project is as following:
I have a serious case of "I want to get back to JIRA Agile".
My latest challenge with Rally is to find the best and most true way of dealing with unfinished stories at the end of a sprint.
Story: I as a ScrumMaster want to move 3 unfinished stories from Sprint 1 to Sprint 2 gracefully so that the team will have these stories in the next sprint without falsifying the velocity of Sprint 2 or the backlog and not creating any more overhead for the ScrumMaster.
Acceptance Criteria:
- Total backlog story points stays true
- Velocity of previous sprint stays true (commitment is reflected accurately)
- it's not adding a huge amount of overhead on the ScrumMaster or the person doing it
- It doesn't need a custom app for doing this
Looking forward to your feedback!
This is a tough one. Rally's splitting solution is a good idea for other things, but there is always a trade off with the implementation for rolling over stories from sprint to sprint. Two stories are created with identical points under an epic, and any project scope reports are doubled. If you make the story zero points, you still need to mess with the state to ensure it does not impact feature stats. Until rally creates a way that a story was "historically" in sprint 1 and is now in sprint 2 ( as the same story) you will need to make trade offs.
Map estimate fields between systemsSet your integration mappings to sync estimate and percent done fields for master features, features, and requirements. These Aha! record types can be linked to portfolio items and user stories in Rally. Note that portfolio items include a field for preliminary estimates. This allows you to capture relative size values such as extra small, small, medium, large, and extra large. To sync this field with Aha! you will need to use a custom field with a predefined choice list.
Any user can export user stories from the grid. You need to click on the "Import/Export" menu item in the toolbar and then select one of the export options. The export file will only contain the user stories that are currently present in the grid, i.e. if you apply any filter only the filtered list will be exported.
if you exported list of stories from Elements, then the export file likely contains fields like 'Conflict", "JIRA ID,"JIRA dev project", and maybe others. These fields are not supported in the import and should be discarded.
Creating tasks and/or userstories using the above mentioned fields may fail in case you have any mandatory custom fields added in the configuration. It's not difficult to add additional details to the request.
The goal of planning poker is to assign story points to user stories, get your team on the same page, and develop an idea of how many tasks your team can complete in the upcoming sprint. Planning poker does this by allowing everyone to weigh in on upcoming work. With the whole team involved, you can be sure you're assigning story points based on diverse opinions and preventing unconscious biases.
Assigning story points to user stories that are too large. Not everything needs a story point. If a user story is so large you feel none of the story point values in your matrix account for the effort required, it may be worth breaking it down further.
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