Project Manager / Daily Planning

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An iteration plan is not frozen even if the iteration has already started. New requirements can be suddenly pushed into the iteration. A new team member may appear. Someone may become sick. The project manager's routine daily activities could be:

• Add a new User Story with tasks and assign it to someone if possible
• Reassign all tasks from one team member to another and remove some tasks from that team member until his performance gets better
• Give a newly found bug the top priority and request a fix ASAP

TargetProcess lets you perform all these tasks very efficiently. Let's take the examples above and map them to TargetProcess functionality.

Add a new User Story with tasks and assign it to someone if possible

1. Click the Add User Story button, fill in the required fields, and save it
2. With a single click, navigate to the Assign Team Members screen
3. Check the developers' loads and drag and drop the new User Story to the most appropriate developer

Reassign all tasks from Tom Cat to Teddy Bear and remove some tasks from Teddy Bear.

At first glance, this may look like a complex task, but it is not:

1. Navigate to the Assign Team Members screen
2. Drag and drop all tasks from Tom Cat to Teddy Bear with a few clicks
3. Drag and drop some tasks from Teddy Bear to Backlog, thus removing them from Teddy Bear's queue

Give a newly found bug the top priority and request a fix ASAP

1. Jump to the bug by ID and assign it to the current iteration and to a developer
2. Go to the Prioritize screen
3. Use the Filter to display User Stories and Bugs for the current iteration
4. Drag the bug and put it on top of the list
5. As a result, the developer will see this bug on top of his ToDo list and will understand that it has the top priority for him.

As you can see, even quite complex daily activities take just a few steps in TargetProcess. Tasks like adding or editing a User Story or Bug or reassigning a task are even simpler. You may reassign User Stories, Bugs, and Tasks from virtually anywhere in the system (User Stories List, User Story view, User Story edit, Daily Iteration Progress and Iteration Plan) using the inline assignment widget.