User:KTucker/My Sandbox/Agile Tools
The following illustrates a template useful in issue trackers and for any projects aspiring towards agile production/development.
Issue Tracker/ Progress monitor
For any issue the colours indicate the effort required to resolve the issue, the issue's priority and progress. In my years as a software developer I had an interest in agile methodologies (among other things, like patterns, object-orientation, ...), the work of people like Alistair Cockburn, Martin Fowler, Peter Coad, Kent Beck, Ward Cunningham, et al. Over the years the teams I worked with applied variations on Extreme Programming (xP), SCRUM, and Feature Driven development (FDD) (to name a few approaches). This issue tracker is reminiscent of FDD but may be for anything requiring monitoring of progress and discussion.
The template itself may be found here: Template:Issue, and the colour key here.
Samples:
| Title: | <-Colour on left: priority. Colour in here: effort. Colour on right: progress. Title goes here | |
| Submitted by: | Kim Tucker 23:28, 30 September 2009 (UTC) | |
| Status: | This easy and low priority issue/task is on track | |
| Comments: | Your comments on the issue go here.
The colours are set when using the template as explained in the usage section. | |
| (low priority, easy, on track) | ||
| Title: | <-Colour on left: priority. Colour in here: effort. Colour on right: progress. Title goes here | |
| Submitted by: | Kim Tucker 23:28, 30 September 2009 (UTC) | |
| Status: | This routine task of medium priority is done. | |
| Comments: | Your comments on the issue go here.
The colours are set when using the template as explained in the usage section. | |
| (medium priority, routine, done) | ||
| Title: | <-Colour on left: priority. Colour in here: effort. Colour on right: progress. Title goes here | |
| Submitted by: | Kim Tucker 23:28, 30 September 2009 (UTC) | |
| Status: | This high priority and tricky task is ahead of schedule | |
| Comments: | Your comments on the issue go here.
The colours are set when using the template as explained in the usage section. | |
| (high priority, tricky, ahead) | ||
| Title: | <-Colour on left: priority. Colour in here: effort. Colour on right: progress. Title goes here | |
| Submitted by: | Kim Tucker 23:28, 30 September 2009 (UTC) | |
| Status: | This tricky medium priority task is in trouble | |
| Comments: | Your comments on the issue go here.
The colours are set when using the template as explained in the usage section. | |
| (medium priority, tricky, in trouble) | ||
WE WG Issue Tracker Description
Colours of issue headers indicate:
| Priority: | high | medium | low | - | - | - | - |
| Effort: | none | trivial | easy | routine | tricky | difficult | unknown |
| Progress: | done | not started | on hold | ahead | on track | behind | in trouble |
Top left cell (priority): high (orangered), medium (orange), low (yellow)
Title cell (effort): none/done (lightgreen/green), trivial (silver), easy/routine (yellow/yellow), tricky (orange), unknown (lightgreen) or known to be difficult (orangered).
Right column (status/progress): done (green), not started (white), on hold (silver), ahead (lightgreen), on track (yellow), behind (orange), in trouble (red).
Sub-test:
- {{EffortColour|effort=easy}}: lightblue
- {{PriorityColour|priority=high}}:orangered
- {{StatusColour|status=on track}}:yellow
