Scrum Burndown in Trac

Notice: This plugin is unmaintained and available for adoption.

Description

This is a plugin to enable burndown chart capabilities, a common part of Scrum and other agile development methodologies.

This plugin is integrated with the TimingAndEstimationPlugin.

At the beginning of a sprint, after the tickets have been input and estimated in Trac an admin user should click the 'Start Milestone' plugin. This inputs a datetime integer into the milestone table to indicate when the milestone was started. The daily burndown_job.py script will only record hours_remaining entries for milestones that have started, but have not been completed. It should be fairly obvious, then, that an admin user should click the 'Milestone Complete' button at the end of the milestone to prevent the burndown_job from continuing to collect data.

You can view different burndown charts, selectable by milestone and component by choosing from the dropdowns and clicking the 'Show Burndown Chart' button.

For this to work, it is imperative that developers keep the 'Estimated Hours' and 'Total Hours' fields accurate and up-to-date on the tickets they are working on. The 'Total Hours' field itself should never be manually edited, but rather, it can be changed by entering positive and negative values into the 'Hours to Add' field.

This plugin relies on the TimingAndEstimationPlugin.

See also:

• AgiloForScrumPlugin is a similar plugin.
• EstimationToolsPlugin is a similar plugin, and uses Google's Charts API, and doesn't depend on TimingAndEstimationPlugin.
• TimeVisualizerPlugin is based on this plugin

Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for ScrumBurndownPlugin are here.

If you have any issues, create a new ticket.

defect	58 / 73
enhancement	8 / 15
task	5 / 5

Download

Download the zipped source from here.

Source

You can check out the source using Subversion or browse the source​ with Trac.

Installation

General instructions on installing Trac plugins can be found on the TracPlugins page.

Questions and Answers

1. Is there an easy way to move the start date of a sprint into the past? (For example when some tickets of a milestone already have been closed when starting a sprint, immediately after installing this plugin.)
   

This can be done in the administration panel, available in Trac 0.11 and higher.

2. Is there any way to automatically grant BURNDOWN_VIEW to any/all users? It's slightly annoying to have to explicitly set that permission on every user (which in our case is about 40 people).

Any authenticated user pulls its default permissions from the 'anonymous' group, see ​http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracPermissions. If you add BURNDOWN_VIEW to the anonymous usergroup, everyone can view it. If you add it to the authenticated usergroup, any authenticated user will be able to view it.

Recent Changes

16778 by rjollos on 2017-08-26 04:31:01

TracBurndown 2.0.0dev: Fix incorrect types for milestone timestamp columns

Fixes #13257.

13150 by rjollos on 2013-05-16 23:38:18

Fixes #11089:

• Fixed incorrect package_data specification (regression from [13076]).
• Renamed config.html to admin_burndown.html in order to better ensure that we'll meet the requirements that template names are unique.
• Changed url in setup.py to point to the trac-hacks site.

Thanks to Jun Omae (jun66j5) for these fixes.

13148 by rjollos on 2013-05-15 23:40:27

Refs #7066, #11069:

• Removed Trac pre-0.11 compatibility code.
• Changed module names to follow Trac naming conventions.
• Updated source file headers and added where missing.

Note: If you enabled the plugin through the web admin, or by providing the full module name, you'll need to re-enable the plugin or edit the [components] section:

burndown.burndown_admin_milestones.burndownmilestonesadminpanel = enabled
burndown.burndown.burndowncomponent = enabled

->

burndown.admin.burndownadminpanel = enabled
burndown.burndown.burndownmodule = enabled

(more)

Author/Contributors

Author: sambloomquist
Maintainer: none (needsadoption)
Contributors: