We're not formally Agile, but let's pretend that we want to be somewhat sprint-like. However (nature of our market) our ship cycle is much more waterfall-ish: big quarterly releas …

What status/state do you use for "developer, please estimate this so we can determine whether we can slot it?" I'm not sure I can expand on that a great deal: I'm looking for sugg …

We use FogBugz for both timesheeting and planning purposes. Most of our work is assigned to milestones, but some tasks just don't fit, so I created an "Ongoing" global milestone t …

I get it, EBS seems pretty useful. But, how do I organize my stuff to get the most use out of EBS?

I'm working in image processing and I often have R&D tasks. Sometimes these tasks take a lot more time to do than estimated initially. For example, I recently estimated a task …

Hi I'm searching for a best practice on how to handle implicit timeloss when working on a task. for example if a developer is working on a Task. now the phone rings and he is ask …

What are your best practices for estimating software tasks?

We use subcases often in the following way: Team Leader A creates a case describing the feature (= result) Developer X defines subcases what needs to be programmed to achieve the …

I feel like I read all the articles here about scheduled items - but I am still not sure how to use them, concerning the following aspects: What would be the right strategy to es …

Imagine that I am developing two software packages. For each one, I've got a project. I could set up milestones in each one, but why not use global ones: current release in progr …

So I'm not that experienced with Fogbugz and how to break down features, tasks, and where to log time, etc. I've been checking out some of the best practices answers here and I've …

I would like to find documentation on the best practices for using Projects and Areas in FogBugz. I notice a few questions around about this but maybe a tutorial that explains how …

Is the "Inbox" project only used for email sorting? Is it a good idea to use this as our default project or should we create a separate one? I don't think we plan on using emaili …

In my work place I need to log in 8 hours a day to whatever tasks I'm working on. We actually use Redmine officially but I use Fogbugz and then port the information across. When I …

It's not immediately clear what one should be doing.