How does TeamForge support dynamic planning?

TeamForge helps you maximize your team's effectiveness by keeping you in close touch with the multiple moving targets facing your project.

In a development project, each piece of the picture constantly changes in response to changes in the other parts. As you continue to iterate through the process, a feedback loop like this takes shape. (Click a node for more detail.)

The new Dynamic Planning features in TeamForge 6.0 give you a more open and extensible platform that integrates and centralizes the software development tools necessary in modern application lifecycles.

Note: The Dynamic Planning features helps you effectively utilize Agile-like processes, but you can use any process model you like.

Tracker summary screen

TeamForge 6.0 incorporates a new Tracker Summary screen display to accommodate planning folders, treeviews, and multiple tracker viewing. The Tracker Summary section is available at the top of the screen with summaries of open and closed artifacts as well as a summary of open artifacts by priority. The Planning Folders section is located at the bottom of the Tracker Summary screen. This section includes summaries of open and closed artifacts, a summary of open artifacts by priority, and a summary of Effort for each planning folder.

Tree view

TeamForge 6.0 incorporates an expandable and collapsible tree view of the planning folder hierarchical structure to display parent/child relationships of artifacts.

The tree view allows for the viewing of artifacts in a hierarchical structure and displays parent/child relationships across multiple trackers.

What is a planning folder?
A planning folder is a virtual container that helps you organize and plan the work that goes into delivering a product.
Why can't I move these artifacts into this planning folder?
To avoid confusion, you must observe a few basic rules when you assign artifacts to planning folders.
How does TeamForge automatically sum up effort estimates?
As you refine your agile project plan, you break down user stories into smaller stories, and eventually into tasks. TeamForge can watch the changing effort estimates all the way down the hierarchy, and give you a running total for each parent artifact and all its children.
How do you measure "effort?"
Effort is a uniform span of time for measuring work on your product. Defining the unit of effort is an essential part of planning your work.
What are all these charts about?
The charts in CollabNet TeamForge provide a variety of graphical windows on your project's progress. You can print these charts, import them into presentations, or send out links to them.
What is a feature tree?
A feature tree is a way to look at planned product features hierarchically, so you can quickly understand the relationships among product features you have specified.
What is an iteration?
An iteration (also called a sprint) is the period of time it takes to produce something that works well enough to show to the user.
What is a product owner?
The product owner works with the users, or customers, to define how a product can address their needs and wishes.
What is a project administrator?
The project leader takes user stories created by the product owner and works with the project team to manage the process of analyzing, scheduling and executing them.
What is an agile project team?
As a member of a project team, you implement product features according to user stories created by the product owner and planning input from the project leader.
Who can access project planning information?
A project manager should consider carefully who is able to change the project plan.

Parent topic: Concepts and terms in TeamForge