Generate Team Iterations automatically for all Teams

It can't be used with the following solutions:

• Generate Program Increments automatically for all ARTs (7cecc8cd-2b76-4938-8397-b1bdc746e7c5)
• Generate PIs/TIs based on Periods (7bb57095-b993-49a4-a44b-604c0356fcba)
• Iteration Generation for Team (58884b19-17e0-4d07-bf99-6cd0874d0056)
• Iteration Generation for Agile Release Train (ART) (5170cf26-77e6-4d16-96f3-c11a5b86f876)

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Solution Overview

The solution allows generation of Team Iterations of the same duration and the exact Start/End Dates for all the Teams in a company (with the possibility to exclude some Teams who don't follow Scrum) in no time. It's needed if you follow SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) and need to plan capacity and budgets across the whole organization for the same periods.

How it works

As we need to generate Team Iterations of the same length and exact dates, there are several parameters in the Automation Rules, which need be configured. To do that:

• Go to Settings -> Automation Rules
• Enable the following rules:
  • Generate Team Iterations for all Teams - main rule
  • Generate Team Iterations for all Teams - Team creation trigger
  • Generate Team Iterations for all Teams - Daily trigger
• Open the following rules one by one:
  • Generate Team Iterations for all Teams - main rule
  • Generate Team Iterations for all Teams - Daily trigger
• Click JSON tab
• Specify the needed data in the following parameters:
  • First Iteration Start Date -  the Date when you'd like Team Iterations to start from. Format YYYY-MM-DD.
  • Iteration Length - the number of days in a Team Iteration (in calendar days).
  • Iteration Count - how many future Team Iterations should always exist. Team Iterations will be generated automatically daily to keep the defined number of Team Iterations in the future.
  • Exclude Teams - teams that can be excluded from Team Iteration auto-generation. Use Team IDs in the values' array.

To generate Team Iterations for Teams:

• Enable and open Generate Team Iterations for all Teams - Daily trigger rule
• Click Save and trigger now button

Team Iterations will be generated considering the information provided:

Further, the system will check if the future Team Iterations count corresponds to the Iteration Count value set for the Teams and will trigger additional Team Iterations’ generation if needed.

Note 1: In case you'd like to change the number of future Team Iterations, just update the Iteration Count value and click Save ant trigger now button for Generate Team Iterations for all Teams - Daily trigger rule.

Note 2: In case you'd like to change First Iteration Start Date or Iteration Length, please delete the created Team Iterations, update the values in the parameters and click Save ant trigger now button again.

Note 3: Team Iterations for newly created teams will not be created in the past (except the case when you installed the solution before having any Teams in the system. In this case Team Iterations for the first created Team will be generated from the specified date (even if it's in the past), but for the later created Teams only current and future Team Iterations will be created).

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Version 1.0