Tagged Questions

0
votes
1answer
46 views

Where do I book time when I’m waiting for something?

Let's say I'm working on a project, and I'm waiting for a graphic designer to send some screen designs for the next feature. I can't work on anything else. Later on in the project …
18
votes
3answers
128 views

Feature Request: Add ability to filter EBS status reports

I work at a fairly large company (>500 FB users) that has recently started using FB. I want to start using EBS, but when I look at the report I can't find a way to either filter wh …
26
votes
7answers
4k views

Why doesn’t FogBugz offer Gantt charts?

My manager knows how to read a Gantt chart and can make sense of them. Why doesn't FogBugz have them?
1
vote
1answer
95 views

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 …
5
votes
1answer
74 views

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?
4
votes
1answer
278 views

Best way to do estimates for pair programming

I was wondering how estimates and estimates-based-scheduling should work when you have some cases that are worked on using pair programming. Only one person can estimate but if bo …
1
vote
0answers
78 views

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 …
31
votes
1answer
326 views

Feature Request: Burn-down chart without EBS adjustments

The EBS Burn-down chart shows you the adjusted (predicted) hours remaining. Please create a version without EBS. The menu Schedules > {project} > Burn-down chart (no EBS) REASON …
0
votes
1answer
177 views

How can we track EBS for QA testers if they are part of the story workflow?

I'm not currently having our QA testers track time in FogBugz out of the fear that it will throw off EBS, but I hate this. Is my fear well-placed, or totally unfounded? We're a pro …
0
votes
1answer
138 views

Resolve / close a case with incomplete time tracking

I forgot to track my time on a feature over a long time. Now I am done with the feature and would like to close it but the estimate should not be counted as it would be grossly ina …
1
vote
2answers
90 views

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 …
2
votes
1answer
300 views

How do I remove wildly incorrect (outlier) estimates?

I have some cases that have estimates and actuals that are waaaay off of the norm, either due to a typo entering the original estimate, or because of some circumstances which shoul …
7
votes
1answer
9k views

How to Estimate Software Tasks

What are your best practices for estimating software tasks?
0
votes
1answer
41 views

How does EBS treat new users? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: What estimate history does FogBugz give to new users? So I just put my first project milestone into FogBugz, and it came out to 57 hours. I went to se …
7
votes
2answers
7k views

Evidenced-Based Scheduling (EBS)

Can you please give us an overview of Evidenced-Based Scheduling (EBS)?

1 2 3 4 5 9 next
15 30 50 per page