256MbTeam/Redmine-Scrumbler — Issue #45: Possible to filter by tracker type if scrum points should be counted
Author: snicke
Created: 2012-03-02 16:10:00+00:00
State: open

This is a feature request (for our company, a very important one!)

Use case:
- We use a tracker called "Story" for the Scrum stories (written on a "business level") in the "Product backlog" owned by the Product Owner.
- We then use other trackers (eg. "Feature" and "Test" etc) as subtasks to each story to break down each story into more technical tasks for the developers.

Problem with Scrumbler:
- On our sprint planning meeting we break down each "Story" into subtasks and we estimate scrumpoints for each subtask ("Feature", "Bug" etc). The sum of the scrumpoints for the subtasks are put into the scrum point field in the "Story" (the parent of the sub tasks).
- We then want to drag-n-drop both the "Story" and its subtasks ("Feature", "Test" etc) into the sprint backlog in Scrumbler to get rid of the Story and its subtasks from the product backlog. Problem: We get twice the scrum points in the sprint backlog since Scrumbler (naturally) by default counts all the scrum points from both the Story and its subtasks.

Solution: It would be great if one could choose what tracker types that Scrumbler should include in it sum up of the scrum points in, for instance, the sprint backlog but also in the product backlog. One could say that one solution is that we put a "?" in the Story scrum points field, but we would like to know the points on the story level (if we filter out just the stories for instance) even if we don't want to count them in the sum up of the sprint backlog for instance.

We now try to use Scrumbler in sharp, important projects in our company and this issue could be a deal breaker. Therefore, it would be greatly appreciated if you could add the above feature as soon as possible if you think it is relevant. We hope you do. By default, we guess that all tracker types should be counted in the scrump point sum up in the backlogs with the option to turn it of tracker type by tracker type.

Thank's for a great job so far!