In this section, you will create a plan, edit the plan
overview, and balance the workload across team members.
Teams that follow agile methods, such as Scrum, typically
divide their release schedule into a series of fixed-length development
iterations, with fixed end dates. Planning for these iterations involves
scheduling the work to be done during an iteration and assigning elements
of that work to members of the team. To be effective, plans need to
be accessible to everyone on the team and they need to change dynamically
over the course of the iteration to reflect the team's position and
direction.
In Jazz™, the planning component provides tools
to assist with the planning and execution of development iterations.
The approach is simple: plans are composed of work items that match
certain criteria. Treating plans as a set of work items has the following
useful characteristics:
- Plans are live:
- Changing work items changes the plan. For example, closing a work
item marks the work item as done on the plan, without need for further
explicit actions.
- Changing the plan directly changes the work items, or creates
new work items if necessary.
- Plans can be viewed in many ways. A plan can easily be regrouped
by owner, functional category, duration, or any other criteria that
is available on work items.
- Plans are available to everyone on the team.
In this section you will learn:
- How to create a plan
- How to edit the plan overview
- How to balance the workload across team members
Because this tutorial doesn't contain many work items,
it's hard to show all the interesting aspects of the plans here. But
we will cover enough of them to help you understand the basics of
planning in Jazz.