Any suggestions for handling impediments (aka blockers)?
We used to put these on bright orange post-it with the issue, who is reporting it, and the time lost.
We really need a way of recording these issues in Mingle which keeps the high visibility. Ideally something in a garish colour on the overview page.
One of our dev teams has created a sub task type and another team member suggested a drop down of impediment types to help record metrics. I guess we could build some sort of chart based on this for the overview page.
Any other ideas of suggestions welcome.
Handing Impediments
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The way that we think of blockers is that if something is a blocker, we're going to work on a patch for it.
We have a Release tree, set up as Release->Patch->Story. So if something is so bad that we need to patch for it, then you create a patch, and schedule the story on it. Then on the overview page we've got a simple table, showing all Story cards that are in a patch and aren't closed. It's not a big orange post it, but it does the job for us.
We are just looking at this also. My intention was to define a card type of 'Risk' detiling the type of Risk that could occur during development and then create a card type of 'Risk Occurrence' to record when a risk actually occurred causing some sort of impediment with details of its impact and path to resolution. This would then also be able to notify product owners on creation. Would be keen to hear how others have approached this.
Thanks for the feedback.. We trialed an impediment task type for a sprint, but have changed to a dedicated card.
We now have the following card tree
Release > Sprint > Story > Task > Impediment > Defect
The impediment has a custom card property of actual hours and we show all open impediments with the hours impeded on the overview page.
h2. Outstanding impediments
{{
stack-bar-chart
conditions: type = impediment
cumulative: false
labels: SELECT DISTINCT name where 'task status' < 'Done'
chart-width: 900
plot-width: 700
chart-height: 500
plot-x-offset: 100
series:
- data: SELECT name, sum('actual hours') WHERE 'task status' < 'Done' and sprint = (current sprint)
label:
}}
Seems to work well
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