2011 May Sprint
From UG
Info
Sprint Info Start: May 30 Mon Staging: July 4 Mon Prod: July 7 Thu Days in Kiev 25 Days in NY: 24 Holidays: 1 (Troica) PTO:
Mantises:
- 0002963: [* Dev Sprint-2011-05 (May)] http://ct.jaguarfreight.com/mantis/view.php?id=2963
- (work in progress): Release Notes v2.17 May June
Dev Plan
See mantis.
Dev Sprint updates
Notes
Business processes defined/clarified and Important messages in this Sprint
Proto phase and proto field has been added
Proto is a new development phase added for new components built without detailed designs/specs.
Prior to sending finalized feature to QA developer in this case will have one or more rounds of prototype reviews with Business Analyst. This is a "Proto(typing) phase" and during this phase task should be in "Proto" mantis folder.
This type of task is to be flagged with proto mantis field set to Y by developer.
QA engineer is to deploy this task to Demo server and to move it to Proto folder and assign to BA.
Completed by developers tasks is to be deployed to Demo server by QA engineer daily
There is a new daily process that QA engineer should follow daily to deploy to Demo server completed (committed) by all developers tasks:
- - find all completed by developers tasks in Dev, DevPull, Proto, QA folders
- - deploy new version of code to demo site
- - move to appropriate folder as required and assign to BA or QA engineers as appropriate
- - do it once a day at least
Previously this job was done by one of the developers.
Pre-Implementation, Post-Implementation and WU Notes
Pre-Implementation and Post-Implementation Notes must be posted by developers under the following circumstances.
When implementation is not well defined (or not defined at all) in spec written by BA then Pre-Implementation Notes must be posted into mantis before coding by developer.
Post-Implementation Notes must be submitted after coding and before Proto and QA phase if spec or previous notes provide not enough info regarding what was coded and deployed.
Examples from 0003041: [Rates DB] (MOT Air) (ph1) Implement Contract Upload feature):
Pre-Implem Note ---------------- Upload contract feature will be added: 1. User selects a menu item "Rate Contract’s Upload" 2. There will be preliminary form which user should fill before chosing the file with Rate Contract 3. In this form user should indicate a. Name of contract b. Airline or JaguarVendor for which the contract will be uploaded c. Comments for this contract (optionally) d. ChargeCode for this contract (one) e. Included ChargeCodes for this contract (multiply) 4. After filling this form user clicks button “Chose Contract Rate file” choses file and clicks button “Upload” 5. System will automatically update RateDatabase according to this file 6. First level of automatically updating Database will be only for one format of RateContracts files
Post-Implem Note ---------------- - go to Acc > Rate Contracts > Rate Contract’s Upload - to test use erate sheet.xls in 0002894
WU notes is a type of mantis note that contains some additional important missing information about component that will be needed in Proto, QA, UAT, WU phases. Example:
- - info was missing in spec and needs to be added during WU phase (type: add)
- - info should replace some existing info in spec (type: replace)
- - info should be deleted from spec (type: delete)
It could be posted by QA or UAT engineers or developers or anyone who discovered gaps in specs or Implementation notes.
Example from 0002412: [Internal Dash Reps] 1) Create "past due arrivals" DR 2) Add ability to define DR for specific group of users:
WU Notes -------- Warning: Counter updates one time per hour but click on hyperlink opens xls result with real time information (number of shipments would differ from counter on level one).
This info will be included in Support Guide in WU phase.
Release Notes to be created by BAs at UAT phase
Phase UAT was renamed into UAT/RN to reflect the fact that during that phase BAs are also responsible to create RN (Release note) for every mantis to be released.
Release Note (for specific mantis or feature) will be included into Sprint Release Notes and explains to end user what is this feature/bugfix/tweak/etc about. It could be just plain text or it could contain screen shots.
Below is "plain text" example for 0002931: [KPI] (External KPIs) Cost per pound (Level 2). Add more options.
Rel Notes --------- Two additional options has been added as a choice for Axis X to this report: a "Consignees" and "Shippers" (Suppliers). Both options support line or a pie chart visualization.
In some cases mantis summary could be decsriptive enough and RN is not needed.
UAT to WU transition and WU Backlog
BA:
- completes UAT
- posts RN note
- sets task as "completed"
After that:
Sprint Manager/Architect:
- reviews
- assigns Rel Num
- includes RN into Sprint Release Notes
- moves to WU folder
- assigns to who will do WU
- (optional) posts note indicating wiki article where to post WU for this task and what subcomponent mantis to link to (if this is not straightforward)
WU Backlog
This is a new project added as a last phase. We need this to separate tasks that came to WU from current Sprint from tasks that are waiting for WU since previous Sprints. Sprint Manager is to move tasks to this folder.
Weekly BAPM update meetings
- Once a week I will have 1-1.5 hour voice over Skype individual update meetings with every BAPM:
- Tracie: Tuesday 10:00-11:30am EST
- Denise: Wednesday 10:00-11:30am EST
- Tira: Thursday 10:00-11:30am EST
- Weekly Reports. I am thinking now in what format I need them
- Once a week I have to report to Jaguar Executive/CT2 Board and President about our progress. Please note that this is of course will be based largely on your reports. I will have to update the President on each key project as well team performance.
BAPM is responsible for success or failure of a project/task
Once again I would like to remind that:
- each Sprint we have 4-7 key concurrent projects
- BA/PM is personally responsible for failure or success which means they need to be proactive, have up to date plans, regular meetings with a project team, etc
- you can escalate serious issues to Sprint Manager but daily work and decision making is on you
- feel free to invite Sprint Manager/Architect to be part of your weekly project meetings (sometimes)
CT2 and Jaguar components and subcomponents
Components
Currently CT2 is divided by the following mutually exclusive components:
Acc AccReps Client ClientEtc ClientReps Ops OpsAdmin OpsPdf OpsRep OpsTruck RatesDB Misc IT/Systems
This is reflected in "comp" mantis field.
Subcomponents
Each CT2 component is divided by several sub components. Each sub-component has a mantis record. We used to call it "parent mantis". They all are located in "Subcomponents" mantis folder.
For example AccReps CT2 component consists of the following sub-components:
2250 (Acc Report: Acc Milestones) 1938 (Acc Report: CTs With No Inv) 2303 (Acc Report: CTs With No Inv) 2581 (Acc Report: Incomplete PI Report) 650 (Acc Report: Misc) 2175 (Acc Report: P and L) 1942 (Acc Report: Search Inv)
History of sub component
By establishing child-parent relationship between each task defined for specific sub-component we preserve History record. For example this is a history of 1942 (Acc Report: Search Inv) :
| # | status | assigned to | phase | Summary |
| 1943 | closed | demo | * Released | (Report:Search Inv) bug: There are no company offices listed on the “receiving office” drop down menu [Delete] |
| 2585 | closed | tracie | * Released | (Report:Search Inv) bug: Incorrect status of Purchase Invoice issued from CT with empty Commodity Table [Delete] |
| 2598 | new | kostya | 3.0 Dev Est | (Report:Search Inv) bug: report works too long when performs search of ALL Purchase Invoices [Delete] |
| 2960 | new | tracie | 2. BA Phase | [Acc 2011] (Acc Report:Search Inv) Add feature to run this report showing VAT charges separately [Delete] |
| 2969 | completed | tracie | d. UAT/RN | (Acc Report:Search Inv) Add a way to select show an additional currency for this report [Delete] |
CT2 projects vs CT2 subcomponents
Misc
Major projects (as defined by Simon)
4 projects below are TOP Projects (as defined by Simon).
I committed to the following this Sprint (to Jaguar Board of Directors):
- 1. Dashboard Reports/KPIs
- in Development stage
- Phase 1 to be delivered:
- Cost Per Pound external KPI
- Past Due Arrivals internal KPI
- possibly proof of concept/limited functionality for one more KPI (Average Times)
- 2. Rates DB
- in Development stage
- Phase 1 to be delivered. Includes:
- Database structure (core)
- Rates editor/viewer (simple version)
- 3. International Portal
- in Development stage
- Phase 1 to be delivered. Includes:
- Database structure (core)
- Extended shipper role (covers additional MOTs Air and Ocean)
- 4. Smartphone Application
- in Business Analysis stage
- Detailed Business requirements to be delivered
- in Business Analysis stage
2011 Release schedule:
- July 7
- August 18
