1. How to depict CSW quarterly plans using Agilefant
Why?
Jarno Vähäniitty Ville Heikkilä Software Process Research Group SoberIT
Cloud Q1 review

2. Visibility
So that everyone can see – at least for the short term – who are collaborating on what

3. What is the Product Backlog?
List of ”everything that needs to be done”
but idea pool kept separate
Transcends any single release; sections:
Ongoing iteration
Up next
Ongoing release
Future releases
Prioritized & elaborated just-in-time
Driven by vision => product & business goals
Ongoing iteration / Immediate future
Ordered sequentially
Estimated in man-hours
Further ahead
Estimated in abstract units
Order ”less sequential”

4. vs. This is to be kept up-to-date in Agilefant Roadmap Iteration
Done so far
Next up
vs.
drives planning
Release
2nd release
Vision
List of everything, but
Separate idea pool
Transcends any single release
Iteration
Release
Future releases
Prioritized just-in-time
Ordered sequentially
Elaborated just-in-time
Estimated in abstract units (xcept for tasks)
3rd release
Later
4th release
Idea pool
Product vision

5. Agilefant should contain
All ongoing ”threads of collaboration” per quarter
The goal of each”thread” for that quarter ”on a single line”
In agile terms:
All ongoing sprints, their goals & involved team/product owner pair(s)

6. ”Product” in AF = Work Package
”Project” in AF = Quarter
”Iteration” in AF
a thread of research collaboration

7. Lots of other features – ignore them for now
”Label” in AF= To which CSW project plan document tasks/deliverables this thread of collaboration contributes to
Story = Concrete description of planned action for that quarter
People responsible for the story

8. Agilefant instructions available in Cloud SW intranet