Introduction
Delivery plans offer insight into features being developed over multiple sprints by multiple teams. Portfolio managers can examine the timeline of features or stories that their teams want to deliver with Delivery Plans. Delivery Plans display the planned tasks for the chosen teams' sprints (iteration paths) on a calendar view.
- Under the selected project, click board and select Delivery plans
- Click New Plan
- Provide a name for the plan, select a project team, choose Features from the dropdown under Backlogs and click create.
- Click the settings button
- Choose the field criteria and click Add criteria
- Choose a field, an operator and a value.
- Change the tab to Markers and click Add Marker.
- Set the date, fill the label section, choose the color and click save.
- Scaling the calendar is another useful feature of the delivery plan extension. Zoom out allows you to view more than one month at once. And enlarge for a far clearer picture.
How to bring an external team to the Project
- Click project settings
- Under the general tab, select Teams and click New Team
- Provide a name for the team and click create
- Click Project configuration and add new iteration by clicking New child
- Provide a name for the iteration and set the start and end date, click save and close after.
- In order to configure the newly created team, select Teams under general tab and click the new team to open it.
- Click Iterations and Area Paths
- Click iteration tab and click + Select iteration
- Select the iteration from the dropdown and click save and close
How to make delivery decisions.
- Go to board and click delivery plan
- Select a plan.
- Click the settings button.
- Change the tab to team and click Add team
- Select the new team under Team and Features under Backlog. Click save after.
- We need to add stories to the iteration by clicking + sign in front of the iteration.
- The toggle button can be used to collapse and expand teams next to their name.
How to use delivery plans to track dependencies
You can keep track of dependencies that have been introduced to work items using Delivery Plans. The Predecessor/Successor connection type between work items is supported by dependency tracking.
- Go to the delivery plan created and select an iteration. change the branding feature to sprint 1, click Add Link and choose new link.
- Choose the Link type from the dropdown, select the work item to link and click Ok.
- The newly added link will be seen under links column, click save and close.
- One can view the dependencies by clicking on the delivery plan
- Click on show all dependencies to show the dependencies lines
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