Added by Deleted user about 10 years ago
I use the backlogs plugin and would like to create a simple task which doesn’t belong to a story and add it to the Sprint Backlog.
Let’s say the task is called ‘Update button labels’ and can be done in 30 minutes. It would be too much overhead to create both a separate story AND a task for this.
Using the task board I can’t move a story (Epic, UserStory or Bug) from the left column to let’s say ‘In Progress’. (which is okay)
On the other hand I can only add a task to the right hand of the story board if it belongs to a story (or if it blocks another task and therefore is a Sprint Impediment).
So how can I add a task without adding a story to a Sprint?
Do I miss anything?
Thanks for your help! :)
Replies (4)
Hi Kuno,
I’m a simple user, I guess that creating a task without a user story… is a violation of scrum philosophy.
Andrea
Hi Andrea,
thanks for your reply :)
I agree that it would violate scrum if one interprets it a a strict set of rules. On the other hand scrum aims to reduce overhead and promote efficient workflows.
And for very small tasks (such as “Update some labels” or “Change a background color”) which can be solved by a team member without technical discussions I would prefer to have a simple task without a user story.
If that’s not possible for technical reasons I would suggest the following:
A user can tick a checkbox “Auto-create UserStory” when adding such simple tasks.
Then a UserStory gets created automatically based on this new task and those two are linked as parent-child automatically. (Alternatively a checkbox “Auto-create Task” could be displayed when creating a UserStory)
OpenProject developers, what do you think about this feature?
Cheers
Jesko :)
I worked with OpenProject for several years now and still wonder how to effectively handle this situation with OpenProject:
I have a very small task (such as “Update some labels” or “Change a background color” or “Improve documentation for feature X”) which needs to be tracked in OpenProject but simply doesn’t justify the overhead to both create a User Story and a task.
OpenProject developers, can you recommend a way how to handle this?
Your feedback on this would be highly appreciated. Thanks! :)
I'm just a user. Sometimes, I create the Story and just perform it without creating any task. Set the story points, start development, fill time spent, etc.