SQL Query for timebookings on projects epics, sprints, stories and items for Zoho Analytics
At CEYOND, we use Zoho Sprints for our agile projects. To evaluate and charge the effort of the tasks we use Zoho Analytics. With this SQL query you could access all relevant accounting data and assign it to projects, sprints, epics, stories and items.Add tooltips to work item fields
Other Zoho applications outside of Zoho Sprints have the ability to add helpful tooltips or help text when you hover over a field to assist the end user in completing it. Read more here. It would be useful for Sprints to do the same when working withSolved: building custom timesheets with Zoho Analytics based on Zoho Sprint time tracking data structure
If you're using Zoho Sprints for agile projects, you're tracking time in it, and you want to use the data for performance billing, this tip is for you. Three steps: 1. use Zoho Analytics. Either bundle it with Zoho One or Zoho CRMPlus or use it as a standaloneTip # 21 - 2 ways to search for work items
Did you try searching for a particular work item and found it hidden? Here's the Global Search that fetches work items across the projects in your team. You can search for work items in two different ways in Zoho Sprints; either using the simple search or advanced search. The Simple search fetches work items with respect to specific projects. All you need to do is enter the work item name or #ID and select the project. Learn more. The Advanced search fetches work items based on specific criteriaTip 39 - Work Item Management
Work items are an essential part of any project. Here are some pointers to help you manage your work items more effectively. Adding Work Items Work items can be added not only from the Backlog , but also from the Board module. Select Add New Item fromTip 37 - Timesheet Management
Managing the timesheets of all your users can be tedious if you have to go to the Timesheet module for each entry. Here are some easy ways to access the timesheet data and the module. From Global View Instead of going into each project to recordTrick 36 - Export of data from Zoho Sprints
Data exporting helps you access your data offline. Zoho Sprints lets you export not just in 1 but in 5 different ways. Keep reading to know all about it in detail. Instant Export of Work Items To export work items in a minute or two, just click andTrick 35 - Views in Backlog
The Backlog is one of the key modules in an agile software. It lets you create work items, assign them to the respective sprints, and lets you start working on them. When you have too many work items, listing out a handful of them will be difficult. ZohoTip 34 - Turn subitems in to work items!
While working on an assignment, we classify additional work as subitems. These subitems need to be completed in order to finish the main work item. As we continue, we might realise that these need special attention and involve input from other team members.Tip 33 - User Management
When you're managing a large team, you tend to add many users to it. Assigning these users to multiple projects and sprints is taxing after a point. Here are some tricks that would simplify this process. The All Users section under Manage Users in SetupBuilding custom Zoho Sprints dashboards with Zoho Analytics
in Zoho Analytics, data from Zoho Sprints can be synchronized. This enables the design of individual reports and dashboards, which can also be provided to external users/customers - without requiring additional Zoho Sprints licenses. Unfortunately, however,Tip 32 - User Dashboard
Delegation of tasks help in reducing the workload and finishing it on time. This delegation needs to be tracked and also involves assigning work based on each user's dexterity. User Dashboard will help you in this case. User Dashboard lets you monitorTip 31 - Control your Email Notifications
Do you know that you can allow and restrict the number of email notifications you receive? If not, keep reading! You can enable email notifications for the activities that you want to be notified and disable for the rest of them. Click the Setup iconIntroducing Schedule Export
Say good-bye to manually downloading reports. Use the Schedule Report option to automatically export reports whenever required. All of these reports will be exported as PDF files. These reports can be scheduled on the following basis, Once Daily WeeklyTip 29 - Add multiple users to sprints in one go
Zoho Sprints allows you to work with multiple users in a team. However, adding them one by one to every sprint that is being created will be strenuous and time-consuming. Here are some tricks that will let you add multiple users to sprints in one shot. There are three ways by which you can do this. Project Templates You can now clone sprints from other projects by choosing that project template on the sprints creation page. These cloned sprints also contain the users associated with them previously.Tip #28 - Plan less and deliver more using WIP limit in Zoho Sprints
Hello, It's been a while since we met with a quick, interesting tip. As the saying goes, "Too much of anything is good for nothing", today the focus is on delivering your outcomes with the right amount of planning. Your plan should be practical, calculative, and achievable for driving a qualitative success. Laura's plan Laura has a habit of planning her project deliverables before assigning work to her team-mates. Once the plan is finalized, she schedules a general meeting with her team andTip #27: Zoho Sprints integrates with Zoho Desk
We are happy to announce that Zoho Sprints now integrates with Zoho Desk. Wondering how a customer service product works with an agile tool? Let's see how Helen solves her customer service problem using this integration. Helen works as the customer support manager and operates Zoho Desk to manage all customer queries by creating and organizing tickets. She runs a team of 20, who manage all the support tickets using Zoho Desk. Helen's problem As new requests pile up and features increase,Tip 26 - Item reminders in Zoho Sprints
Managing your tasks and delivering them on time is a challenging process. What if you are overloaded with tasks? You cannot remember every single task assigned to you. The easiest way to effortlessly remember and track everything is by setting reminders. Whether it's a new feature plan or a bug fix, just set a reminder and go ahead with your day. When it's time, Zoho Sprints will notify about your work item so you never miss out anything. We offer six different reminder types: Remind DailyTip 25 - Strict scrum settings in Zoho Sprints
We recently introduced the strict scrum settings for teams that follow a rigid scrum process. Based on your project requirements, you can choose to follow a strict or flexible scrum method. If you are from a software team bound to client's deadlines you can follow a strict scrum process. This means they can enable 'Strict Scrum' settings and complete the work based on the predefined settings. In case, if your work is flexible to the timeline, then you can opt for a standard scrum process. NavigateTip 24 - Zoho Sprints integrates with source code management tools
Are you an agile team that manages all your code repositories in GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket tools? Now you can manage your code repositories the agile way right at one point. Zoho Sprints now offers a suite of integrations with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. Integrating both the applications We have all the three applications listed in our Integrations section under Settings. You have to Authorize your third-party tool with Zoho Sprints to initiate the integration process. Mapping repositoriesTip 23 - Global view in Zoho Sprints
Global view in Zoho Sprints gives you a complete view of all the work items across the projects in your team. It is comprised of two different views - Default and Custom view. Default view lists all the work items in the open and closed statuses across the projects. Custom view helps you customize the work items based on your requirement. You can categorize them under Public, Private, and Shared views. Default view Default view has two different views: Team View and My View. Both the views displayTip #11 - File sharing
Here's an interesting feature that simplifies your work. Do you want to upload a file or share a screenshot with your team? Well, there are four things you can do in the attachment section. You can: Drag and drop or upload a file from your desktop. Copy and paste a screenshot. Drag and drop or attach an image and annotate it using the inbuilt drawing tools. Upload files from other cloud services. Wondering how it works? Here's a video that can help you get started. Sharing files and attaching imagesTip #20 - GitHub Integration
Do you find it difficult to manage both your code changes and work items at different places? Well, you can now integrate your team with GitHub and manage everything at one place. Map your GitHub repositories to your Zoho Sprints team. Associate projects to the mapped repository. Attach commits and pull requests from the work item details page. Use quick commands to mention work items in GitHub. Here's a video to help you get started with the GitHub integration. Integrate with GitHub and manageTip #22 -Swimlanes in Zoho Sprints (Part 2)
Before we get in to know what's the new enhancement, let us have a quick glance of our previous tip on swimlanes. Zoho Sprints has enhanced this feature by adding two new swimlanes. Viewing swimlanes Navigate to your board, click Swimlane in the right corner, and choose your swimlane. Introducing new swimlanes User Swimlane: Lists all the work items based on particular users in the sprint. Track the users with maximum work items across each status. Track the work items tagged in the 'Unassigned'Tip #19 - Track performance of sprints without estimation points
Wondering how to track the performance of your sprints without using estimation points? Well, this post can help. In Zoho Sprints, the progress of your sprints is evaluated either based on the estimation points or the count of work items. Team's that setup estimation points for calculating the effort of the work items can track the progress using Estimation Points. Team's that do not use estimation points can track the progress using the Count of work items. We've an inbuilt 'View By' option acrossTracking bugs reported for a Story
If I add bugs under a Story, I cannot pick up individual bug for fixing in current or future sprint; when I drag and drop a bug, the Story gets dropped along with all other subitems. . If I add a bug as independent item, there is no way to Tag associated story to it. How do I tag Story to the bugs being added so that I can count which Story had how many bugs?Tip #18 - New enhancements to work items
Did you check out our new enhancements in our work items released last week? Well, those who are looking to convert comments into work items and subitems into parent items, it's now available at the click of a button. For any queries, please contact support@zohosprints.com or reach us through live chat. You can also refer our help article here. Regards, Monica. RTip #17 - Replanning a sprint
Welcome back to our tips and tricks series! Your team has already begun the sprint and is half-way through. Suddenly you find a drop in performance. What will you do? You can always replan a sprint and start it again. When should you replan a sprint? You end up replanning a sprint only when there are a lot of work items that you cannot finish within the specified duration. Solution: You can overcome this by conducting proper sprint planning meeting, prioritizing the work items effectively,Tip #16 - Meetings in Scrum
"What's up for today?" "How's the work going?" "Did you finish the overdue task?" "Why couldn't the deadline be met?" "What's our next set of plans? .......Keeps loading When it comes to work, questions are often raised. Those back-to-back meeting sessions, rushing to complete the target, preparing for the next set of goals etc. - You will not know where to focus. This is why scrum teams are always in a safe zone because they schedule meetings at everyTip #15 - Predict the end date of your sprint
"I'm half-way through the sprint, how can I predict the end date of my sprint?" - The frequently asked question by the teams that are new to agile. Well, this post will walk you through the basic agile metrics and how Zoho Sprints helps you track the sprint progress. Your team has moved the prioritized work items from the project backlog to the sprint and the sprint has started. What's next? It's time to track its progress on a daily basis. You can track the Ideal, Actual, and Predicted progressTip #14 - Four new enhancements that you shouldn't miss!
Hello all, We have rolled out a few enhancements in Zoho Sprints. Eager to check out what are those? Read on. Global View Lists all the work items across projects in your team. Categorizes work items in two different views: Team View - Lists all the work items across projects irrespective of the assignee. Only Admin has access to this. My View - Lists all the work items assigned to you across projects. Search for work items matching a specific criteria using the filter option. Sort the workTip #13 - Project Dashboard
Welcome back to our tips and tricks series! Let's explore an interesting and vibrant module - The Project Dashboard . Track progress of your projects using the widgets displayed on the dashboard. What do the widgets do? Here's an illustration that can help you understand the different types of widgets and their purpose. Take a look at our resource page for more information. Write to support@zohosprints.com if you have any queries.Tip #12 - Reports view and export
Reports are used to track the progress of your team. They help teams to forecast progress by evaluating the performance of the team members. In Zoho Sprints, you can either view reports by estimation points or by number of work items. Choose 'View by Points' to track the number of estimation points completed. Choose 'View by Count' to track the number of work items completed. Refer our guide for more information on reports. What if you want to export the reports and charts? Yes, you canTip #10 - 3 things to track using user profile
Hello, Are you looking for a report that tracks progress by users? Well, here's 'User Profile' that helps you track progress of the user from a single location. Track the total, completed, and pending work items and estimation points assigned to the user. Using this feature, managers can evaluate user work load and allocate resources. Velocity meter helps users evaluate their performance by tracking the progress of the completed sprints. Using this chart, managers can evaluate the performance ofTip #9 - Epics in Zoho Sprints
Hello all, It's been a while since we launched 'Epics'. Hope you have explored it already. Here's a short blurb about this new feature that will help you get started with it. In Agile project management, all the requirements from the client are created as user stories and stored in the product backlog. These stories are further broken down into tasks and run across a sprint. What if the user stories are larger and cannot be accomplished in a single iteration? Instead of creating multiple user stories,Tip #8 - Velocity Chart
Hello all, We are back with an informative tip on - 'How to measure your team's performance?'. Evaluating the performance of your team on a periodic basis will help the team deliver quality outcome at the end of every iteration. Why do you need a velocity chart? In Scrum, the effort of every iteration is measured by the total number of points that the team estimates. This estimation is defined based on the effort that is required to complete the work items in the sprint. The maximum effortTip #7 - Scrum settings
In Zoho Sprints, right after you create a project, by default you can start only one sprint at a time and once the sprint starts you will not be able to add or move work items to it. To overcome this limitation, we have introduced "Scrum Settings" to help you with two things: Add new work items or move existing work items from the backlog to your active sprint on board. Start multiple sprints at the same time. (You can start only 5 sprints in parallel). Say, you run a big team and you've got multipleTip #6 - Five benefits of using export in Zoho Sprints
Hello All, We're back with a cool tip. Exporting the data and taking a backup of the work you do is very important when it comes to any business. In Zoho Sprints, you can schedule an export, view the active schedulers, and track the export history - everything in a single place! Backlog - Exporting all the work items from the backlog will help in prioritizing during the sprint plan meeting. Scrum Board - All the project members can benefit from this export. They can export their work items fromTip #5 - Create custom work item type and priority
Every business has a bundle of requirements to be targeted and these requirements are categorized into different work item types called 'Stories', 'Tasks', and 'Bugs'. What if your business expands and you get busy handling multiple projects at the same time? Well, your requirements are mounted and you will look out for different work item types to track different types of work. In Zoho Sprints, you can create custom work item types to segregate your requirements based on the type of work youTip #4 - Status Timeline
This week let's have a quick understanding of the interesting enhancement in Zoho Sprints. Did you happen to see something called 'Status Timeline' in your work item details section? - Yes? - Then you are ready to know what it actually does. No? - Quickly navigate to your work item details page and click Status Timeline from the top navigation bar. What does it do? Tracks the time taken by a work item to move across statuses on the scrum board. It also helps you know the number of days theNext Page
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Tip # 21 - 2 ways to search for work items
Did you try searching for a particular work item and found it hidden? Here's the Global Search that fetches work items across the projects in your team. You can search for work items in two different ways in Zoho Sprints; either using the simple search or advanced search. The Simple search fetches work items with respect to specific projects. All you need to do is enter the work item name or #ID and select the project. Learn more. The Advanced search fetches work items based on specific criteriaTip 31 - Control your Email Notifications
Do you know that you can allow and restrict the number of email notifications you receive? If not, keep reading! You can enable email notifications for the activities that you want to be notified and disable for the rest of them. Click the Setup iconTip #27: Zoho Sprints integrates with Zoho Desk
We are happy to announce that Zoho Sprints now integrates with Zoho Desk. Wondering how a customer service product works with an agile tool? Let's see how Helen solves her customer service problem using this integration. Helen works as the customer support manager and operates Zoho Desk to manage all customer queries by creating and organizing tickets. She runs a team of 20, who manage all the support tickets using Zoho Desk. Helen's problem As new requests pile up and features increase,Tip 26 - Item reminders in Zoho Sprints
Managing your tasks and delivering them on time is a challenging process. What if you are overloaded with tasks? You cannot remember every single task assigned to you. The easiest way to effortlessly remember and track everything is by setting reminders. Whether it's a new feature plan or a bug fix, just set a reminder and go ahead with your day. When it's time, Zoho Sprints will notify about your work item so you never miss out anything. We offer six different reminder types: Remind DailyTip 25 - Strict scrum settings in Zoho Sprints
We recently introduced the strict scrum settings for teams that follow a rigid scrum process. Based on your project requirements, you can choose to follow a strict or flexible scrum method. If you are from a software team bound to client's deadlines you can follow a strict scrum process. This means they can enable 'Strict Scrum' settings and complete the work based on the predefined settings. In case, if your work is flexible to the timeline, then you can opt for a standard scrum process. Navigate
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Tip #28 - Plan less and deliver more using WIP limit in Zoho Sprints
Hello, It's been a while since we met with a quick, interesting tip. As the saying goes, "Too much of anything is good for nothing", today the focus is on delivering your outcomes with the right amount of planning. Your plan should be practical, calculative, and achievable for driving a qualitative success. Laura's plan Laura has a habit of planning her project deliverables before assigning work to her team-mates. Once the plan is finalized, she schedules a general meeting with her team andTip # 3- Working on the Scrum board
Continuing from our Tip #2 on leading to a sprint, let's see how to manage the work items on the Scrum board. Once you start the sprint your work items are automatically displayed on the Scrum board where you will actually manage the work items. It is a snapshot of the backlog items identified for the current sprint. The layout of the Scrum board Simply put, the scrum board is just like a physical board with sticky notes on which the work items of the active sprint are displayed. The scrum boardTip#2- Leading you to a Sprint
Product Backlog After the user stories are written and finalized, they are sorted to create the Product Backlog for the project during the Backlog Grooming meeting. This is a master list of all the work items that have been identified for the project and sorted by priority. Requirements are not constant during this period.The Product Backlog is dynamic and is an ongoing process. Every user story in the Product Backlog is customer centric. The Product Backlog includes: User centric stories based onTip #1- Why swimlanes?
Lanes define a clear path to reach your destination. In Agile, swimlane is one such concept that sets a simple and clear process of the work that you do. The concept of swimlane can be related to the pool, where the swimmers gather in their respective lanes to start off. Similar to the pool, work items are grouped in different categories. Each category is referred as a lane and is displayed in horizontal format. Swimlanes are effective in categorizing the work items with respective to specific