aptage quickstart
TRANSCRIPT
By:
MurrayCantor,Ph.D.CTO, Managed Innovation Systems, Inc.
© 2016 Managed Innovation Systems
The Aptage
Release Planner (ARP) Quick Start Guide
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This guide lays out the steps for using Aptage. For a complete products description see the The Aptage Release Planner whitepaper
1. Go to www.aptage.com
2. Log in and get this screen
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3. Download the Excel template.
4. Populate the template.
The first sheet is a list of the backlog items and their size triplets. For convenience, there is also an inclusion flag: A ‘1’ means the item is included in the plan. This makes it easy to develop plan alternatives and to track ongoing plans, moving the flag to ‘0’ when the item is completed or now out of plan.
Figure 1. The ARP backlog sheet
The second sheet (Figure 2), has the project data:
• An estimate of the team’s velocity in story points/per periods., also provided as a triplet {best case, likely case, worse case}. For example, a team expects to deliver
BacklogItem Included(1or0)? Low Medium High1A 0 3 5 81B 0 5 8 131C 0 13 21 302 1 16 30 353 1 20 23 504A 1 21 30 404B 1 16 30 355A 0 20 23 505B 0 21 30 40
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about 40 story points per sprint, but believe that they might be able to do as much as 60, but at a minimum they can be counted on delivering 25. In this case velocity would be entered as the triplet {25, 40, 60}.
• The number of periods in the current plan.
Figure 2 The ARP project data sheet
5. Name and save populated workbook
6. Click the browse button
PeriodTeamVelocityLow PeriodTeamVelocityProbable PeriodTeamVelocityHigh RemainingReleaseDurationinPeriods20 30 40 2
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7. Choose the workbook
8. Click the submit button
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9. Wait a few seconds for the ‘Download Results’ button appears.
10. Open the downloaded file ‘result(n).pdf’
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