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This page describes all the settings you can configure within Plangle
Please note that all these settings are JIRA Agile Board specific, so if you select another board you can set different ones. |
Here you can set
The "Work Type" or Project Management type is another way of saying "the type of work", like "Frontend Development", "Backend Development", or "QA".
During our planning process we often find ourselves in a situation where we have to estimate how many Backend, Frontend or QA guys we will need,
however in Agile development we prefer cross functional teams, somehow we should set up or team who estimate our backlog, shouldn't we?
Therefore we must categorize the work somehow, so that we can see if 80% of the work will be JS development where we need Eric Cartman (assuming we can provide him enough KFC), or most of the time we'll need our Java EE guru who knows how to deal with EJBs.
Is it against Agile concepts? Well, we don't think so... and we need it anyway (so whatever... - says I).
Long story short, we invented this "Work Type" concept, which practically a kind of "labeling our sub-tasks" (normal and Quick as well).
For these labeling purposes you can select any "Select List (single choice)" custom field in JIRA.
The Work Type of a sub-task is displayed next to the name of the sub-task in the editor, can be set directly using the context menu in case of normal sub-tasks, and can be specified for a Quick sub-task column in case of having Quick sub-tasks.
Quick sub-tasks named wisely since they are to create sub-tasks for Stories only specifying the estimations for them,
To achieve that goal their name (Summary) and issue type have to be inferred somehow, and here we are... you can set them here.
Usually we use more than one Quick sub-task columns, one for each Work Type like "Frontend", "Backend", "QA", etc.
For each column you can specify
Please note that we use that prefix when filling the editor, so if you rename a sub-task created by this feature afterwards, the Editor will recognize it as a standard sub-task |
Please note that if you change the Work Type of your quick sub-tasks our plugin WON't change your previously created sub-tasks! This setting is consulted only at issue creation time! Of course you can still change your existing sub-tasks using the bulk modification feature of JIRA. |
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