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Allen reported a problem in Balsamiq on October 07, 2009 14:46:

Interface not working with FF 3 on Ubuntu 9.04

I am using firefox 3.0.14 on Ubuntu 9.04 with Flash 10.0.0 d525. The embedded flash windows are not working. They have a single brown box flashing in the upper left hand corner, but none of the interface that I see when I use firefox on windows.

A comment on the idea "Need better way to organize and review a product backlog." in agile42:

Having it as a card isn't necessarily as important to me as having a view where a product owner can see the product backlog and release backlogs and easily move stories between them. If this was all drag/drop for reordering and assignement and automatically updated sums of the story points in the releases, this seems like a great way to plan a product. – Allen, on June 30, 2009 13:47

A comment on the idea "Need better way to organize and review a product backlog." in agile42:

Having it as a card isn't necessarily as important to me as having a view where a product owner can see the product backlog and release backlogs and easily move stories between them. If this was all drag/drop for reordering and assignement and automatically updated sums of the story points in the releases, this seems like a great way to plan a product. – Allen, on June 30, 2009 13:46

Allen marked one of Andrea Tomasini's replies in agile42 as useful. Andrea Tomasini replied to the idea "Need better way to organize and review a product backlog.".

A comment on the idea "Need better way to organize and review a product backlog." in agile42:

I will try it out. But I think you are correct, a combination of better drag-and-drop support along with inline editing/exploring would help tremendously.

I also think a "card" mode where you could see all releases on the screen along with unassigned stories/capabilities for dragging and dropping between releases and backlog would be very helpful. Basically an extension of the whiteboard to release and product planning. – Allen, on June 29, 2009 13:11

Allen started following the idea "Freeform Pencil and other Annotation Support" in Balsamiq.

Allen started following the idea ""Projects" that bundle multiple mockups." in Balsamiq.

Allen started following the idea "Export the mockups to html css" in Balsamiq.

Allen started following the question "Insert a mockup by reference instead of copy..." in Balsamiq.

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Allen started following the idea "group tasks to stories in Agilo backlog" in agile42.

Allen started following the idea "What about adding to Agilo for Scrum a Whiteboard?" in agile42.

Allen replied on June 28, 2009 02:34 to the question "How to properly remove a requirement/user story/task from a running sprint?" in agile42:

We have run into the same issue. We see it most often at the end of the sprint if there was work that didn't get done or got change into a future spike. What we do to solve it is leave the ticket in that sprint and create a new ticket for the continuing work. We put a note in the new ticket that links back to the old ticket for tracibility. This isn't perfect and does involve some manual leg work, but it keeps the sprints looking accurate.

Allen started following the question "How to properly remove a requirement/user story/task from a running sprint?" in agile42.

Allen replied on June 28, 2009 02:31 to the idea "Need better way to organize and review a product backlog." in agile42:

Back to the backlog...

I think the 3 big things I am missing are:

1) Drag and drop improvements. Moving a capability should automatically move the associated stories with it in the list and do it live. (ie. no refresh)

2) Ability to inline expand to see details of a capability/story. In discussions about prioritizing backlog items, it seems we always want to see more of the details to ask question like "what is that again", "which part is that going to change", "what will that look like". If there was a way to expand or preview the ticket contents inline (ie. no click through and back), that would be a huge win.

3) A theme that shows well.
IMHO, the current theme wastes space on the left of the screen when reviewing backlogs and looks a bit dark. This is totally personal taste though so ignore it. :)

Allen replied on June 28, 2009 02:26 to the idea "Need better way to organize and review a product backlog." in agile42:

I was looking around and thinking about it more. One interesting system I found was how they handle it in targetprocess. In that tool, there is a view where you can do release planning by dragging stories from the backlog into a release.

http://www.targetprocess.com/Product/...

That would definitely be interesting as one of the issues I see right now is there is no view where you can see the releases (and associated stories) and move stories back and forth between the various backlogs.

Allen shared an idea in agile42 on June 27, 2009 17:25:

Need better way to organize and review a product backlog.

I love Agilo, but I run into one big problem.

This is a rather vague idea, but one thing I am running into right now is that it is very difficult to review a backlog with the "non-techies" in the company. For whatever reason the product backlog screen, user interface, theme, whatever seems to inhibit discuss and put people off to Agilo and Scrum.

What I find myself doing is having to copy all the capabilities and stories out of Agilo and into something like a google spreadsheet. Then I use that to discuss priorities and reshuffle product backlog items to reprioritize, rename, expand, etc.

Put another way, product backlog management seems to be a pain. It is just not "fun" to use and hurts the collaboration and interaction strengths of Scrum. Using the backlog involves a lot of clicking (to get details on capability/story, to add a story, to add a backlog item, etc). If there was a way to get this all done in a single page with a clean interface, that would be a huge win for Agilo.

Does anyone know an example how other products do this that we could build on to improve Agilo?

Allen marked one of Adam's replies in Balsamiq as useful. Adam replied to the idea "Want to crop images in Mockups".

Allen replied on April 27, 2009 20:13 to the idea "Want to crop images in Mockups" in Balsamiq:

I am running into the same issue. I want to have a common backdrop for our application, but I want to crop portions of it so I can concentrate only on some small areas of the screen instead of the entire page.

Allen started following the idea "Want to crop images in Mockups" in Balsamiq.