Itteco Magic

All right, this is the feature I take a lot of personal pride. Remember when you were a kid you loved the soap bubbles? Well, you got the same fun now within Itteco platform. It is called Bubbles View.

Essentially, it represents the milestones in all your projects.

• The X axis is the timeline. The further the bubble, the more time is remaining until the milestone is due.
• The Y axis represents the % of milestone completion
• The radius of the bubble represents the size of the milestone
• You may filter sprints, builds, releases. You may also choose which ticket types to include and how to calculate the size and % of completion (number of tickets by default)
• You may drill down from this view (click on the bubble) and it will take you to the detailed view of the milestone in the project repository.

The view is available from the Projects Dashboard. Like any other information there – all data is pulled out of project repositories and is cached locally in your browser. If the repository is temporally unavailable, it would mark it with asterisk and show the local (cached) data.

As with any other data on Projects Dashboard, you may filter this view by individual project (use combobox on top).

Overall, it is one of the features to ease the multi-project environment as it allows you to spot any problems visually (thus, easily). The closer the bubble to today, the bigger it in size, the lower it is – the more concerned you should be about that particular milestone.

By the end of the day, your goal as Scrum Master would be to keep bubbles follow its natural path: up – and – disappear. Have fun blowing your bubbles!

P.S.: I am that proud as I have “sort of’ invented it myself. “Sort of” – because the original idea is inspired by IBM Rational Portfolio Manager back in last century (screenshot here). But since most of you don’t even remember what IBM stands for, not to mention its acquisition of Rational Software, and not even thinking you could have seen their Portfolio Manager, I can safely claim the authorship.