Product management

Products are the topmost backlogs in Agilefant and have no fixed timespan. Product development is conducted as release projects. From the product level you can see the entire story hierarchy, from the long-term epic goals all the way to small, iteration level stories.

Release projects

Release projects have a fixed timespan. They contain functionality to plan and monitor the progress of a release. Projects provide a tree for manipulating the story hierarchy and a list of leaf stories (e.g. stories which have no child stories) for prioritization purposes. Both the tree and the leaf story list show only stories currently in that release project and its iterations. Release project progress visualized with a burn-up graph.

Iterations

Iteration backlogs contain leaf stories which can further be divided into tasks that have hour-based estimates.

Daily Work collects all of the assignments of a single user from different iterations into one single view. It supports short term task planning by providing a work queue. Each user has their own personal work queue where they can add and sort tasks as a personal todo list for the short term. At the same time others can clearly see what the user is currently planning to do. In addition to collecting assigned stories and tasks to a single place, Daily Work contains a graphic presentation of users current and upcoming workload.

Agilefant has a built-in time-tracking system, which allows logging effort to products, projects, iterations, stories and tasks. The logged effort entries can be collected either to a web-page report or to an excel sheet with timesheet report generator.

The portfolio view displays all ongoing and upcoming release projects. In the portfolio view you can express high level priorities by ranking the projects against each other.