Songbird path to Agility – Part III
Posted in agile on December 15th, 2008 by Georges – Comments Off
This is a repost of a series of article I originally published on Songbird’s blog
In the previous two installments of this series on Agile development at Songbird, I’ve covered our move from waterfall to Agile and provided an in-depth look at some actual release cycles. In this last post, I’m going to introduce a tool – which I gave the uninspiring name sdpbot – built internally to help facilitate the tracking of our releases.
Wrestling Bugzilla into shape
Because so much of our existing workflow occurred in Bugzilla, we’ve decided to use it as a central database to drive our process. Every actionable project artifact lives in Bugzilla, a Feature, Story, Task or Bug. From a release standpoint, the only actionable items are Story, Tasks or Bug and hence, we only track these. Here is how we’ve organized our bugzilla.songbirdnest.com to help us track each release.
Release train
Every release train has a name and is used to create a target milestone in Bugzilla. This allows us to put items in release buckets. See some examples of what was included in the Fugazi and Genesis releases.
