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For those of you who think you can’t use a whiteboard for agile planning in distributed teams – yes, you can! 2

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I literally was just going to make a post with title and one screenshot. But I guess I can’t walk away like this and do need to put couple more lines together.

So, here is what you can do with whiteboards at your project repository @ Itteco:

  • Plan stories and other scope elements across the sprints (‘Stories’ view in Control Panel)
  • Plan (including creation) of tasks and other work elements for the individual sprint
  • Filter the whiteboard’s tickets by owner and type
  • Comment on tickets or edit most commonly used fields of any ticket
  • See the status of stories and tickets and change them (by drag-n-drop)
  • See the burn-down chart for the sprint

All in all, it is awesome way for team to keep track of what they are doing within sprint, see what’s happening and what others are doing, especially useful during daily meetings. It makes it easy for product owner and scrum master to keep their backlogs in order too.

While this is a very powerful functionality, it does not (and neither was intended to) cover some other aspects, such as easing understanding of who is doing what, or seeing the list of overall known issues (defects) within the app (for example, when you are about to submit one), etc. Just make your way into Ticket Buckets and you’ll find what you need in those cases.

2 Responses to “For those of you who think you can’t use a whiteboard for agile planning in distributed teams – yes, you can!”

  1. Esoga Simmons says:

    Hey, just wondering if the itteco trac plugin will keep being developed? I really like the plugin btw.

  2. Ivan Paramonau says:

    Itteco Trac Plugin is in constant development. You may want to check the trunk for latest versions.

    The most recent and cool feature was the drag-n-drop in Reports. Also, Calendar is in trunk, yet we are almost ready to release a better version.

    We are not good at documenting everything though. We promise to spent some time on it.

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