Reporting agile/jazz project status and/or allowing someone else to view it
While I am still dabbling with the BlueMix apps themselves, the jazz/agile/RTC-esque project tracking via DevOps Services is a huge value all by itself. That said, I'm trying to allow my manager access (so he knows what I'm doing and can stop pestering me). He got a BlueMix id, but I cannot find him when I try to add him as a subscriber on my work items. Ideally, I would love to allow him to see (and even update ... Lord help me) ... the work items. So I'm probably breaking rules, by making this a multi-question question ... and I'm happy to view doc if someone can point me to any but ... what I need:
Is there more to him showing up as a subscribee (I see lots of IDs, just not his, and he got his 2 days ago)
Is there a way I can let him sign in to the project and see all
Is there a way I can create detailed reports and send them to him
Happy to read doc if someone can point me to doc that would help answer these. Thanks
Hi,
The answer to 1 and 2 sort of depends on whether your project is public or private.
Question 1: If its private then you will need to add him as a member. If public then he should always show up as an option but RTC may be filtering him out if he's not a member of any project at all.
Question 2: If its private then you will need to add him as a member. If public then he can just navigate to it.
Regarding question 3, would be good to know roughly what kind of report you are trying to provide. The RTC reporting at DevOps Services for tracking and planning is limited to what you can put on your dashboard (various viewlets) and what you can achieve by running queries in the Eclipse RTC rich client UI. Note that you can use the Eclipse client UI to export work items to .CSV and do all kinds of reporting using a spreadsheet.
Thanks for this. I was able to invite my manager to the project. He's not sure if he ever got an invite, but he has not shown up as someone I could, for example, assign a work item to. As for the viewlets, is there one that shows a hierarchical view of the work items in a sprint (ie: epic (grayed out if epic itself not part of the sprint), story, task ... showing person responsible, status, tot hours, hours left, that sort of thing? I haven't been able to find anything like that in the viewlets, but maybe I'm doing something wrong. If it was close to that, it would be great. Thanks,
PS. If not, and if I find the RTC client ... where would I connect in order to bring up the eclipse client? Thanks,
For the RTC eclipse client see https://hub.jazz.net/docs/reference/jazz_scm_client/
Your manager should be able to go to hub.jazz.net (My Projects) and see his invitations and accept. He should definitely then be available for you to assign a work item to.
I don't think we have a view let that shows what you are requesting but the Sprint Planning view sort of shows most of that in 1 view...although not focused on 1 sprint. You can definitely create a Sprint Plan showing this by dropping down into the Project Dashboard, selecting "Plans->Create Sprint Plan" and putting the plan onto the Dashboard using a plan view let.