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 can
Tip #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 of
Tip #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 effort
Tip #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 multiple
Tip #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 from
Tip #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 you
Tip #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 the
Tip # 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 board
Tip#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 on
Tip #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