Re: Agile, Jira tickets, and document planning

[Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>]

Since it doesn't matter what order they do them in, you might ask for
a written contract with each dev team promising that they will finish
X number of assignments per sprint. If one developer is too busy to do
their assignment in a particular sprint, someone else will pick it up,
or will knock another of the to-do list.

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 12:01 PM, Stuart Conner
<stuart2 -at- stuartconner -dot- me -dot- uk> wrote:
> I'm in a new job where I need to plan and produce some documentation in an
> Agile environment.
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> I have a known number of documents to produce within the next 3 months, with
> each sprint being 2 weeks long. The order in which the documents are
> produced is not critical.
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> Each document will require the following sequence of activities: (1) A
> developer SME either writes an initial draft of the document or conveys that
> information to me verbally, (2) I produce a good draft of the document,
> gathering further information from the SME as needed, (3) review, further
> rework and eventually sign-off. All the usual stuff.
>
>
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> The main pain-point is going to be getting developer time to work on the
> documentation, as they have code to develop as well. We'll raise a Jira
> ticket for each document so the necessary time can be planned into each
> sprint.
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>
> My question relates to the best way to track things in Jira:
>
>
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> (1) We could say that for each sprint, the developer and I will work on
> documents A, B and C, and we raise Jira tickets for these. But doing this,
> developer time will be needed early in the sprint if he/she is to do their
> part leaving enough time for me to rework and finish the draft before the
> end of the sprint. If the developer gets tied up with other stuff during the
> first week of the sprint and can't look at the documentation until the
> second week, then I won't have time to complete the documents before the end
> of the sprint.
>
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> (2) We could separate the developer's time on the documents from my time. So
> for each sprint, the developer will work on initial drafts for documents A,
> B and C, and I work on the drafts the developer produced in the last sprint.
> More flexible, more likely to finish the work scheduled for each sprint, but
> double the number of Jira tickets to be tracked.
>
>
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> (3) We could say that for each sprint, the developer will work on documents
> A, B and C, but I will work 'outside' the sprints, being flexible on how I
> work on the drafts produced by the developer. I track my progress on the
> documents separately. We don't drown in Jira tickets. But to some extent I'm
> working outside the Agile team.
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> Anyone been in a similar situation and have any advice on what worked for
> them?
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> Thanks,
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> Stuart.
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