Question

We have most cases assigned to 'up for grabs' user.

So, the common confusion of developers occures when they start working on some case assigned to a virtual user, but this case does not assigns to them automatically. After working with a scrum board this seems very natural to them.

They ask me: "what's the difference between case assigned to them and working on case"?

Of course, i do see the difference, but, after all, 99% times when you start working on the case - you take responsibility for it (at least, temporarily).

I'd like some kind of checkbox in the working on menu ("also, assign this case to me"). Ideally - also a global/per user setting that set's this checkbox default value.

Does this make any sense?

Answer 1

We've developed a plugin for that:

http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/Plugins/plugin.aspx?ixPlugin=32

Nothings fancy (actually, like 20 lines of code), but does it's job.

Answer 2

It sounds quite reasonable, and it would make a very cool FogBugz plugin for Scrum teams. The simplest thing would be to hook either Bug commit or TimeInterval commit via the FogBugz plugin architecture. It's probably worth requesting here: http://fogbugzplugins.uservoice.com

Update: Alexander has written and posted a plugin.