Do you find yourself starting items and not being able to complete them before the end of the iteration? Are you wondering what will happen to that item when the iteration ends? Will it be moved to history or in the next iteration? How will that affect your velocity?
We hit that same problem long ago. So don’t lose sleep over it! Planio takes care of it as one would expect – automatically.
Items can be carried over many iterations. Tasks you have completed are logged in the iteration it was done in. For example, in Planio attachments took longer than one iteration to develop. Below are tasks for the original item near the end of the iteration. Notice some were completed and some weren’t.
When the iteration’s move to history happened, this item wasn’t finished. So Planio created a copy with remaining tasks. You can quickly spot carried over items with a superscript number indicating how many iterations the item has been carried over.
When the item is opened, you can see remaining tasks. Past tasks appear in a separate tab for you to consult. Of course, they can’t be modified since they are history.
Planio pro-rates estimates based on the number of tasks. For example, 4 development tasks were estimated to take 40 hours while 3 remain estimated at 24 hours. The accomplished 16 estimate hours were accounted for in the last iteration and used to calculate the new velocity.
Martin
