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How do you track large releases with small milestones in between?
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 …
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What status/state do you use for “developer, please estimate this so we can determine whether we can slot it?”
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 …
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Make an undated global milestone sort later
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 …
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How do I organize my stuff for EBS?
I get it, EBS seems pretty useful. But, how do I organize my stuff to get the most use out of EBS?
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How to manage estimation time for R&D tasks
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 …
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EBS in real life , how to handle “Implicit time loss”
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 …
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1answer
9k views
How to Estimate Software Tasks
What are your best practices for estimating software tasks?
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Adding a subcase without inheriting “assigned to” from parent
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 …
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468 views
Scheduled Items: how to use them
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 …
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Arguments against using global milestones?
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 …
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Help on how to break down tasks and where to log time
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 …
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What are the best practices for structuring Projects, Areas, Categories and Tags
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 …
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What is the Inbox project?
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 …
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Ongoing “General stuff” type tasks
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 …
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Best Practices for Using Autosort
It's not immediately clear what one should be doing.