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Improved Tasks and Basic Planning

No any news in EmForge.net for a long time - but we used this time to improve EmForge.net.

So, today new version was deployed into production - in this version 2 major changes:

  1. Improved Tasks Management;
  2. Basic Project Planning.

Improved Tasks Management

Task Management portlet was improved dramatically during this month - many thanks to Marek for great job. Major changes:

  • Improved filtering for tasks - now it is possible to filter tasks by many criterias like type, creator/assigner, task status - and many more
  • Improved Task View/Edit page
  • Time Tracking
  • Different Task types supported: Epic, User Story, Task and Bug
  • Different actions for different different types and statuses

So, in general we have support for basic task types and workflows used in XP - and now task management portlet is ready for real use

Basic Project Planning

We added portlet for project planning - currently it supports only basic functionality to create/edit releases and iterations. Our nearests plans is to improve this portlet to make planning process (including task assignment for releases/iterations) comfortable to use.

Infrastructure changes

During this month - to reduce support cost we moved emforge.org into emforge.net Portal. Now EmForge Portal is used to host information about previous version of EmForge (now called EmForge-Lite). As well as some content (wiki-pages) were moved from emforge.org into emforge.net

As always you can test all these functionality in sandbox.emforge.net or check how we are using it in emforge-portal project.

As always any comments and suggestions are really welcomed in our Forum.


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Great Work!
Do you can add new features like FDD?
EmForge can run a fdd workflow like this

http://www.nebulon.com/articles/fdd/download/fddprocessesA4.pdf

http://www.featuredrivendevelopment.com/files/FDD%20Process%20Model%20Diagram.pdf

Zamieszczone 11.02.10 02:08.

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Hi,

We are happy You like it so far emoticon. We want EmForge to be adoptable, so teams can use it at work according to their own set of rules or methodology and we have still a lot to do to allow this. Currently wiki could be used to store features and the links to specific tasks could be added in comments or feature body. Also there can be defined additional roles for the project to satisfy FDD needs. We welcome all comments regarding this issues.

We'll definitely work on the usability of all portlets and we'll definitely add possibiity to connect tasks with forum and wiki (and with any new module that will be added if required), so the user can do everything as fast as possible and does not loose time on clicking around.

In near future we'll allow also to define set of states that task or bug can have and this would also be another step forward to allow teams to implement in EmForge their own methodology. I think this is very importand, because from my experience I know that each company has its own implementation of Scrum, XP, FDD.

Have a nice day emoticon.

Zamieszczone 12.02.10 10:25 w odpowiedzi na Wandrey Alves.

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