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How can we manage a waterfall-like model in FogBugz?
Our team is currently evaluating FogBugz, and we are not sure how to map in our existing development model. We pretty much use the waterfall model with stages of specification, co …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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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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Estimate (Current) Disappears when case is Closed?
So we've created these wonderful case outlines with no task > than two hours and the estimated and elapsed time roll up nicely to be summed for each parent case. Worked great.
Unt …
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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 …
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How to Estimate Software Tasks
What are your best practices for estimating software tasks?
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Tracking time without an estimate
Some tasks can't be estimated; for a silly example, "Read and respond to emails". I'd have to read all my emails first to know how long it would take me!
I'd still like to track m …
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Estimate values should always be in the same units
In FogBugz Version 8.6.50 (DB 786, Build 0):
Sometimes I get 'Estimate' values that look like this:
Estimate
original: 30 minutes
current: 30 minutes
elapsed: 0.78 hours
…
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Parent Cases don’t correctly calculate Estimated Time Remaining
We group and categorize tasks within a release under parent cases that reflect larger components/user stories/features/etc.
FogBugz does not now correctly calculate the Estimate …
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Bug: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: [tagName=FB:EST] when setting estimate from a list view
When attempting to set an estimate by clicking on the "Current Estimate" column in a listview in my On Demand account (dandoes.fogbugz.com), I see the following JS error show up in …
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How do I reset all EBS history in my FogBugz install?
I think my devs have made a bunch of bad estimates and I just want to start this whole EBS thing from scratch. What do I do?
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Custom Field Type of “Time Estimate”
When entering a project into FogBugz we'd like to enter in (and keep) the initial "Quote Estimate". In other words, "how long did we tell the client this is going to take?". Curren …
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Grid View Column(s) to show parent and child estimates separately
In the grid view, the Estimate columns for parents show the sum of the estimate for that case and all child cases, and if you hover over the field in the grid, it gives you the bre …