How does EBS work with virtual users? - FogBugz Knowledge Exchange

How does EBS work with virtual users?

2009-12-26T16:37:46Z

As recommended, we use virtual "up for grabs" user for scrum-like process.

So here is the question: how does EBS work with the case when most of the work is assigned to a virtual user? Where does it take estimation history from?

Does it take all this cases into account?

Answer by Brett Kiefer for How does EBS work with virtual users?

2009-12-29T15:46:53Z

EBS will use the estimation history of the last person to estimate the case to generate probable hours to completion for the case. However, the 'up for grabs' user is considered to be the user doing the work, so EBS will assume that all of the work will be performed serially. So the burn-down charts will look correct, but the other EBS projection charts will be off because they attempt to parallelize and get calendar dates.

So if you want to do Scrum burn-down style analysis on EBS-adjusted hours, you're fine as you are, but if you want calendar-date predictions and dependency analysis, you need to assign the cases to the people who will be performing the work. Future iterations of EBS may try to support calendar-date prediction for this setup, but it would require some new notions, such as what is the team for this sprint, can they all work on any case, etc.

Answer by oo for How does EBS work with virtual users?

2012-10-24T10:40:19Z

big +1 for this

i would like to keep the upcoming milestone or two with cases assigned to real users, while cases for future milestones get assigned to virtual "bucket" users depending on the type of skill required.

these "bucket" users need to have % time allocation greater than 100, which preferably may also vary between milestones.

any chance of getting this in?