Delivery timeline - @Scale release v1.4.20

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Published May 19, 2022

Product Manager

Jimmy Kåsby

The Scale team is excited to announce our new function called Delivery Timeline! With our new function, you can toggle if you want your cards to be bound to start & finish dates or iteration paths.

In this post, I'll go over our latest update and how you can visualize organization objectives on epic levels down to features for a delivery team. This also opens up the opportunity to create and visualize roadmaps for your organization or teams in a clear way.

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Delivery Timeline - Using @Scale

As of release v1.4.20 Scale has the ability to create timelines with work items. Now you're able to visualize time perspectives using the Start & Target date custom fields in Azure DevOps.

Epic/feature level examples

Here's an example where we've added the Epic portfolio on the top of the board to visualize them in a timeline with the estimated start & finish dates. This enables our users to add portfolio-level work items like Epic which often are not bound to an iteration.

Example of how a program board can look with delivery timeline: Link to image Example of a Scale program board using start and target dates Epic & Feature Delivery timeline

Example of a board without delivery timeline: Link to image Example of a Scale program board without delivery timeline settings

Example of a board using delivery timeline, dependencies & compact view: Link to image Example of a board using compact view & showing dependencies

Enabling Delivery Timeline on your board

To enable the new function in your board: Click on board settings -> Working with cards > Select start & finish date

  1. Working with cards - Click here to configure how you want the cards to work on the board
  2. Start & Finish date - Select this if you want to enable Start & finish date visualization on your board.
  3. Start date - Customize which field you want to work with for the start date - From load, our function uses Azure DevOps standard field
  4. Finish date - Customize which field you want to work with for the finish date - From load, our function uses Azure DevOps standard field

Example of the settings for enabling delivery timeline

How to set start & target dates

If your tickets don't contain any information in the start & target date fields they will automatically be bound to their set iteration.

Scale has two ways to set the dates:

  1. Add the information manually by opening up the card and filling in the dates in both fields.
  2. Using our user interface to set a start or finish date, simply drag the left or right side of the cards as illustrated in the gif below:

Example of dragging a card using the user interface to set start & target dates for the work item

Do you want to start implementing agile at scale? Leave a comment below or send us a message at Scale@solidify.dev!

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