At IBM’s InterConnect 2017 (Session HDR-1406) we are going to present and demo the brand new Timebox Planning Widget V3 with SAFe Dependency/Program Board support and integrated Absence Management
You are welcome to join us !
New Features coming with Timbox Planning Widget V3
sophisticated dependency management and visualization
choose between the visualization of all dependencies or just the one you are pointing at
drag & drop shows the dependencies constantly in the correct color according to your definition in the setup
simplified and improved Settings
choose to see the Program- or Team Level
choose which Work Items shall represent your Program- and Team-Level
(any customized Work Item types are supported)
color your Work Items by Team or Project/ART
choose your favorit colors for the Dependency Arrows
new toggle button in order to visualize also Work Items with zero Story Points
integrated Absence Management
absences of team members are shown in the Release Plan by simply elevating the base level
define how team member absences in days shall be represented in Story Points
The size of the boxes is determined by the ‘Story Point’-value of the Work Item.
Which process template are you using?
Because when you combine this TimeBox Planning Widget with the IBM provided ‘SAFe 4.0 Process (Program)’-process template, the significant Work Items use ‘Estimated Story Point’ and thus all Work Items always show as ‘0 Story point’ items.
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Hi Danny
Thanks for this good question.
On SAFe Team Level we expect to have a Story with Story Points. On SAFe Program Level you have the Feature with “actual” and “estimated” Story Points. The IBM Template out-of-the-box provides any integer values for those.
The Timebox Planning Widget does not consider this values in the Feature. However, the Story Points on SAFe Program Level are calculated from the Feature’s child Stories. i.e. the summed up Points you see in the Feature are the sum of all child Story Points.
Nonetheless, a future version of the Timebox Planning Widget will make this new fields “actual” and “estimated” configurable. So it’s going to be up to you what you want to visualize. The sum of all child story points or the values form the Feature
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Hi Danny
your point will be supported in the next release 3.11.x which we will release soon …
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Hi Markus,
I’m using Timebox Planning Widget v3-11-5, its working fine as expected, in some case I’m getting “You have no access to any selected query.” Even though owner of query and I’m member of project and team area with all rights, any idea why I’m getting this kind of error
Thanks for a wonderful solution
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