July 2, 2021
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Planning Your Work
RTC Build – 1.0
Jazz Jumpstart Team, IBM Rational
July 2, 2021
Copyright © 2007, 2008 IBM Corporation. All rights
reserved.
Planning Your Work
RTC Build – 1.0
Jazz Jumpstart Team, IBM Rational
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What is a Bug Tracking System?
• An application to help development teams
keep track of reported software bugs in
their work.
• Support the concept of bug life cycle
which is tracked through status assigned
to the bug.
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How is Rational Team Concert
Different?
• RTC calls them work items.
• The set of work item types is open-
ended.
• Standard types: Plan Item, Story, Task,
Enhancement, Defect
• The set is defined by each team.
• The work item life cycle is configurable.
• All work items are stored in the Jazz
repository
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Report
Report
Work Items are Central to Rational Team
Concert
Work
Work
Items
Items
Plans
define &
organize
work items
Planning
Planning
Source Control
Source Control
Change sets
implement
work items
Build
includes
change sets
Build
Build
Reports
show work
item activity
Work items
describe
the builds
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Our Situation: A Bunch of Work Items
• We have a bunch of work items
• We have a deadline (M2)
• Who will work on what?
• How can we track our progress on M2?
• What if there’s too much to fit in?
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Our Solution: The Iteration Plan
• A collection of work items…
– Assigned to a given milestone
– For a given team
• Plans are live
– Changing work items changes the plan
– Changing the plan directly changes the work items
– Create new work items from the plan
• Plan structure is dynamic
– Easily be grouped by owner, category, tags, custom folders
• Plans are visible
– Available to everybody on the team
– Observable by interested outsiders
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Iteration Planning in Rational Team
Concert
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[Exercise] Planning M2
• File: 030-exercise-Planning Your Work.doc
• Demo: Use the Squawk release plan to set
determine content for the M2 plans.
• Create a couple work items
– One for creating your squawker and its test case
– One for creating your squawker documentation
– Dog, Cat, Car and Lion are already taken
• Create M2 plans for the Core Library and
Documentation teams