Agile/Sprint Development (patch)

[dylanc]

Hi all,

We've been using mantis for many years now and with the latest (php4 - no php5 on my server yet) version which has the Roadmap and version specifications., I decided to quickly add some features to it to make it perfect for Agile dev. (as a prelude to trying to fix the extreme 20-30 second slowdown problem I have with the preparing of notification e-mails for projects with custom fields and lots of issues)

So what I did is add a custom field "Issue Weight" which can be set to No Weight/Minutes/Hours/Days/Weeks (people tend to think exponentially in terms of a task's weight), which are then each assigned a weighting index - I just used index to the power of 5 which seemed roughly a good balance. (Weeks are 1024, Minutes are 1). If anyone has any theories on the range of scales here let me know.

I also added a percentage complete set of statuses in 5% increments 0%, 5%, 10% etc., that the user can set before the task is set to resolved.

Then in the roadmap I changed the code to add up these totals rather than just the no. of resolved issues / no. of total issues per target version. I also added tables to show the agile score per user, and highlight users whose progress is behind the sprint's overall progress. Only Managers can see the entire list, individual Developers only see their own score. The percentage complete values are multiplied against the points too, to give a more granular report.

I am still using the php4 version of mantis - the pre-2.xx version so maybe something like this has gone into that and I am duplicating the effort, but if not then any comments would be great, and if anybody wants to try out the patch for 1.9 (just a patch of the roadmap php file, everything else is in custom settings) then give me a shout.

[mlotspe]

Hello,

I would love to get your patch if I might. We're also looking to use Mantis as part of our Agile approach to developement along with a bug tracker.

Thanks much!

Melodie

email: Melodie.Rice@state.nm.us

[meganb]

hi!
would you be able to pass this patch on to me, please?
thanks for your work and for sharing!