[Imc-alternatives] project management - getting organized!

[Josh Marcus]

I think this kind of organizing tool is really helpful, myself, and it
seems great.

One comment.  In a normal "agile development" process, you take the
user stories, and then decide on a date for the first "release" (e.g.
Nov. 1), and then choose the user stories that can reasonably get done
by the release date.  Then there are cycles of a certain number of
weeks, say 3.  Then there is a planning meeting where tasks (based on
the user stories) get spec'd out, based on user stories.  In that kind
of world, you would probably want a bite-sized task that will get done
in a 3 week period (called an 'iteration' or a 'scrum' or whatever) to
be a ticket and be picked by someone.  You might *also* want to have a
separate ticket for a user story that was picked for the release, or
you might want to keep that list separate.

huzzah.

--j

On 8/6/07, Aaron Kreider <aaron at campusactivism.org> wrote:
> I think it could be useful to use online software to help manage the
> project.
>
> I think Trac (http://trac.edgewall.org/) would be a good solution for this.
>
> I currently use Trac on my consulting job (a php/mysql project with five
> people).  At a minimum it would be useful for Task Tracking.  You would
> create a ticket for each task, someone volunteers for it (or you can
> assign it to someone - if it already in their area of work), people can
> comment on it, and you can track its status (how far from completition
> it is).  You can combine tickets into goals that make up a timeline.
> For instance, you might have a goal of a beta release of the Philly-IMC
> site running a demo-version of Alternatives IMC on Nov. 1. Then you
> could see what tasks needed to be done to reach that goal.
>
> You could track tasks like
> -documentation
> -finding someone to lead the design team
> -implementing a specific module
> -organizing the first conference call
> -fixing a bug
>
> In the future, we could also use Trac as a code repository (I haven't
> set this up, but am using it to do this on my consulting job, so I
> presume it isn't that hard to do).  Integrating the code repository with
> the tickets system works very well!
>
> Has anyone ever installed Trac before?  Has anyone else used it?  How
> would this fit in to using User Stories and Agile Development?  (I guess
> user stories turn into tickets.)
>
> Aaron
>
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