July 2, 2021

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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

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Items

Plans

define &

organize

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Planning

Planning

Source Control

Source Control

Change sets

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Build

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Build

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show work

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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