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Andrea Tomasini replied on December 03, 2009 23:38 to the idea "Need better way to organize and review a product backlog." in agile42:

Have you tried out the new Backlog BETA? This is pretty much what you were looking for right?

Thanks for the feedback
ANdreaT

Andrea Tomasini replied on December 03, 2009 23:36 to the question "Sprint Burndown chart showing wrong value" in agile42:

The latest version of Agilo for Scrum should have solved this problem. We will improve the Burndown Chart in the next release, so stay tuned ;-)

Andrea Tomasini replied on October 19, 2009 22:28 to the question "Looking for a Scrum Tool, Free and Open Source?" in agile42:

Free and Open Source? What does it mean the current version is free?

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Andrea Tomasini replied on June 30, 2009 06:59 to the idea "Need better way to organize and review a product backlog." in agile42:

We could write down some more stories about this and having you comment on those directly on https://dev.agile42.com :-)

Related to the "Card" mode, I am not convinced, we have customers having backlogs with hundreds of items, and showing them has cards will extremely limit the overview, you can't easily put hundreds of readable "cards" on a screen... or you have some ideas about it?

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Andrea Tomasini replied on June 29, 2009 13:01 to the idea "Need better way to organize and review a product backlog." in agile42:

I think I have a couple of idea that may help here:
1) Drag & Drop can be improved with some Ajax work, which shouldn't be hard to get with the new Agilo 0.8 (better architecture and isolation)

2) This is what we called "inline" editing, it has been around for a while, and it is definitely very valuable, we will move to this

3) We already implemented in the Pro a way to expand and collapse the sidebar, that could be of help here to gain some space :-)

What do you think?

Andrea Tomasini shared an idea in agile42 on June 29, 2009 12:54:

Agilo for Scrum Pro 1.0 BETA Released

Hi all,
we implemented the first BETA of the Pro version of Agilo for Scrum which includes a "Planning Board" one of the most requested feature of Agilo. It is the first BETA, but we are very interested in your feedback and idea on how to make it better :-)

Let us know :-)

Andrea Tomasini replied on June 17, 2009 08:00 to the question "Multiple product backlogs?" in agile42:

Hi Olivier, well a "project" is a trac environment, you can have a single trac instance serving multiple environment, and this works with Agilo too. Our hosted service works this way, we have a single "Software" running multiple projects keeping isolation. As far as the teams do not have to share anything - beside authentication may be - there is no problem in configuring a multiproject environment.

We are developing some specific "Enterprise" feature to support multiple project on distributed location, allowing IT departments to manage services centralized, delegating authentication and authorization. We will also have enterprise wide teams and products spread over multiple servers... and a lot of other interesting things :-)

Andrea Tomasini replied on June 16, 2009 16:20 to the question "Multiple product backlogs?" in agile42:

Well Agilo is "limited" to one Product Backlog per project, but you can have multiple teams working on that backlog. What would be the reason to have two teams and two backlogs interchanging?

Andrea Tomasini replied on June 15, 2009 11:09 to the idea "group tasks to stories in Agilo backlog" in agile42:

Hi agree, we triedvto achieve this in many ways but isn't that trivial... We think that the whiteboard approch partly solve this problem, but we definitely willing to investigate this forward.

Would you be able to help here?

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Andrea Tomasini replied on June 15, 2009 11:00 to the idea "In current agilo we have only option setting the remining time option alone. if we want to get the time spent on that task its very difficult to identify, For that if have a feild named called time spent to that task we can track the time spent to ticket easily for that a new line in that burndown will add more advantage it reduces some pain to managers ." in agile42:

Hi,
in general in Scrum and in Agile it is not important the time you spend on task, cause the approach is "value" driven and not "cost controlled". However you can define a field called actual time and add it to the task type. Than you may also write a calculated property forbthe story and the bug to automatically sum up the actual time of all the related tasks :-)

Andrea Tomasini shared an idea in agile42 on June 12, 2009 20:41:

What about adding to Agilo for Scrum a Whiteboard?

It may seem an obvious feature, but for many it is not. Agilo is integrated with SVN and potentially with other Version Control Systems, and allows the Team Members to change the status of the tasks directly via SVN comment. This feature reduces to the minimum the "task switching" from the IDE, or whatever other editor and the Agilo interface. Agilo offers also more advanced interfaces via mylyn that allow to edit tasks and update them directly from eclipse for example.

So what is the scope of a whiteboard? Ultimately should offer "immediateness" in understanding what is happening, and who is doing what... at any time, but the biggest advantage of the whiteboard is that is normally at least 2m wide and 1m high, offering a huge space to group informations... very effective :-) What do you think about having an electronic whiteboard on a - let's be positive - 50" HD 1080p screen at 1920x1080? How many tickets would fit in there? I am positive, come on, give us your opinions :-)

Andrea Tomasini replied on June 12, 2009 20:32 to the idea "Add ability to hide files based on a pattern" in Panic Inc:

This is clearly a sign of an immature feature, the integration with SVN is really good looking but lacks some features like the possibility to directly add to svn_ignore all the *.pyc files and have the disappear from the Browser. Or even better just have an SVN browser that honors the svn settings :-)

In general I am confident that this feature will be added shortly, it is very annoying to work in this way, and messing up SVN by checking in files which are not supposed to go into the repository :-)

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Andrea Tomasini replied on June 08, 2009 15:31 to the question "Do you need support for Agilo for Scrum?" in agile42:

If you are in trouble with Agilo you can contact the Agilo User Community @ http://groups.google.com/group/agilo or ask for professional support @ http://www.agile42.com/cms/pages/support

Andrea Tomasini asked a question in agile42 on June 08, 2009 15:31:

Do you need support for Agilo for Scrum?

Agilo is great... until it goes down. Then one is fucked.

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