Plan for July August Sprint

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About this document

This article describes all features, bugs, tweaks, etc included into new Sprint.

Intended for wide audience: end users, managers, support, etc.

Sprint and Release Info

• Start: July 12 Tue
• Release to Staging: Aug 15 Mon
• Release to Production: Aug 18 Thu
• Number of tasks: 18
• Sprint approved by CT2 Board on: July 22
• Holidays/PTO: This Sprint has a very large number of vacations. Every developer will take 1-2 weeks vacation and some BAs will take 1 week vacation.

About projects

About Top 4 projects

Dashboard (KPI) reports project:

• Business Analyst: Tracie
• Project id: 0003034
• Project short name: DR/KPI
• Project description: Dashboard Framework and various individual Dashboard/KPI reports.

SmartPhone Application project:

• Business Analyst: Montira
• Project id: 0002237
• Project short name: SmartPhone App
• Project description: CT2 application on various mobile platforms such as iPhone, Blackberry, Android.
•  !!! THIS PROJECT IS ON HOLD AT LEAST FOR 2-3 MONTHS

International Portal project:

• Business Analyst: Montira
• Project id: 0002629
• Project short name: Int Portal
• Project description: Extended functionality for Client and Internal Application. Includes: adding additional roles such as Air/Ocean Shipper, Agent; more flexible reports, etc

Please note that this project is still in a PROTOTYPE phase.

Rates Database project:

• Business Analyst: Tracie
• Project id: 0002690
• Project short name: Rates DB
• Project description: Tariff management system and related functionality; interface into other CT2 modules such as Accounting.

Please note that this project is still in a prototype phase.

About other projects type A

Air Status and EU Advanced Notice EDI project:

• Business Analyst: Montira
• Project id: 0002422
• Project short name: Air Status/EUAN EDI
• Project description: Automated updates of air status such as actual departure date. Automated submission of EU

Advanced Notice.

TMS project:

• Business Analyst: Denise
• Project id: 0002539
• Project short name: TMS (OSDS)
• Project description: Transportation Management System for domestic trucking shipments.

EDI with Trendset project:

• Business Analyst: Denise
• Project id: 0002996
• Project short name: Trendset
• Project description: Automated submission of invoices to Arden through Trendset.

About Other projects type B

Client Miscellaneous project:

• Business Analyst: Montira
• Project id: 0003072
• Project short name: Client Misc
• Project description: Miscellaneous changes, tweaks and bugs for Client sub-components.

Ops Miscellaneous project:

• Business Analyst: Denise
• Project id: 0003073
• Project short name: Ops Misc
• Project description: Miscellaneous changes, tweaks and bugs for Operations sub-components.

Accounting Miscellaneous project:

• Business Analyst: Tracie
• Project id: 0002903
• Project short name: Acc Misc
• Project description: Miscellaneous changes, tweaks and bugs for Accounting sub-components.

IT project:

• Business Analyst: Tira
• Project id: 0002991
• Project short name: IT/Misc
• Project description: Miscellaneous IT projects/tasks.

Top 4 projects

Dashboard (KPI) reports project

#3067 Dashboard Framework (hours: 25/25/25)

Description: Managing dashboards, access rights, configurations, etc

#3091 (DRs/Reports/Users) Administration features (hours: 40/40/40 )

Description: Managing DRs/Reports, access rights, configurations, etc. This would include improvements for user list, user profile management, user groups, etc.

#3092 (Cost per pound) Significantly improve Look and feel. Fix bugs. Add missing functionality. (hours: 25/25/25 )

Please note that the above tasks will not be fully completed in this Sprint. Solutions will be created, documented, presented and some of them coded.

SmartPhone Application project

None

International Portal project

• #3085 Shipment Editor. Cont Tab. Dimension table. (hours: 19 / 19 /19)

• #3086 Shipment Editor. Imp/Exp tabs. MOT: Air. (hours: 40 / 50 /50)

• #3087 Shipment Editor. Imp/Exp tabs. MOT: Ocean. (hours: 40 / 50 /50)

Please note that in addition to coding (tasks above) we will work on developing solution/clarifying requirements.

Rates Database project

#3083 Implement phase 2 (CK model for Air Rates) (hours: 35 / 45 / 45)

Description:

CK model consists of the following functionality:

• rates file upload
• rates viewer

Other projects type A

Air Status and EU Advanced Notice EDI project

None

TMS project

#3002 Add cargo due date to shipment import under xml attribute EarliestDelDate & LatestDelDate (hours: 10 / 20 / 20)

#2295 Cargo Due Date. Add this feature & date fields to CT2 internal & client app shipper/planner view (hours: 15 / 25 / 25)

Description: "Cargo due date" feature would allow for better optimization, by knowing the number of days to put off picking up shipments; to be able to add more pickups, in the future, to maximize the trucks capacity.

EDI with Trendset project

#3042 Create/test EDI for typical file format (hours: 20/20/20)

#3088 Create/test EDI with other file types, other use cases. Create Admin module. (hours: 15/15/15)

Other projects type B

Client Miscellaneous project

None.

Ops Miscellaneous project

#2711 Implement solution to "32000 subdirs limit" problem (that is alternative to Cloud solution)(hours: 21 / 21 /21)

Description: Linux OS has limitation on the number of sub directories where we keep uploaded files, docs, invoices. Current solution implies creating one folder per CT. Number of CTs is growing very fast. When we reach the limit files will not be accessible.

Cloud solution implies monthly fee. Alternative discovered solution is free.

#0003090 (DO Air) New: Add Template Bottom Section (Special Last Page Feature) to Air Delivery Order Templates

Accounting Miscellaneous project

#3023 P & L report. Create special view or filter that shows the P/L info for ONLY one specified office. (hours: 16 / 24 / 24)

Description:

Currently operators have the option to run this report by office, but when this filter is selected, it shows P/L details of any other office related to the same CT records. We do not want to change this report, this report is useful the way it currently is.

Accounting needs a way to select a filter or special view that will only generate results for the specified office.

All of the outputs should remain the same, but the results should only include the total sales, total purchases, total internal invoices from, the total invoices to, and the total profit/loss for the specified office ONLY.

This filter or special view should also be able to be generated in addition to the other special views (shipment groups and charge code group column)

#0002960 (Acc Report:Search Inv) Add feature to run this report showing VAT charges separately (hours: ? / ? / ?)

#0003093 (Addressbook) Add an area to enter a VAT number into the address book (hours: ? / ? / ?)

IT project

#3039 (JFS website) Transfer knowledge from vendor; learn Word Press, etc; establish procedures for future (emh: 30/20/20)

#3070 (JFS website) Create solution for serving videos to users accessing website from China (emh: 20/20/20)