Application Backlog view
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Summary of Application Backlog view
The Application Backlog view is designed for enterprise architects to gain a centralized perspective on epics, stories, enhancements, projects, and demands related to their business applications within a Scrum framework. This consolidated view simplifies prioritization and sequencing by displaying all relevant task types in one place within the TPM timeline.
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To enable this view, the Agile Development 2.0 (com.snc.sdlc.agile.2.0) plugin must be activated.
Key Features
- Centralized Backlog: Displays multiple task types—including epics, stories, enhancements, projects, and demands—associated with business applications.
- Risk Filtering: Lists all applications by default as high risk, with filtering options based on risk intensity.
- Flexible Timeline Views: Allows switching between quarterly and monthly timelines for better visualization.
- Expandable Application Records: You can expand each business application to view its full unified backlog and see the count of associated items.
- Interactive Elements: Each item in the application column is clickable, opening the detailed record in a new tab.
- Pagination: Controls the number of applications shown per view for easier navigation.
- Project and Demand Integration: Supports adding projects (with PPM Standard plugin activated) or demands (default without PPM plugin) directly to business applications.
Details on Backlog Entities
- Epics: High-level business goals broken into smaller work segments, with timelines based on planned start and end dates. Only epics not completed or canceled appear.
- Stories: Fundamental units of work typically linked to epics, shown if not completed or canceled, with timelines tied to sprint durations.
- Others: Stories not linked to an epic but directly associated with the business application, displayed alongside epics.
- Enhancements: User-requested changes reviewed by Scrum product owners and translated into stories. Only active enhancements appear on the timeline, based on their planned start and end dates.
- Projects and Demands: Projects can be added if the PPM Standard plugin is active; otherwise, demands are created by default.
Additional Notes
- For backlog items to appear in the timeline, they must reference the associated business application.
- The risk column specifically reflects risks at the business application level, not for individual backlog items.
- The timeline visually represents start and end dates as continuous lines or single points if only one date is present.
As an enterprise architect this view helps you to understand the epics, stories, and enhancements, which are the units of work in scrum, that impact your business application.
Application Backlog view helps you to look into the centralized backlog of records that are of different task types such as epics, stories, and enhancements. This view facilitates prioritizing and sequencing of different task type records in one location, saving you from sorting and filtering them in many steps. In this view, you can:
- View all applications (first column) that are at a high risk by default, however you can filter based on the intensity of their risk in the second column.
- Filter the application records by any attribute in the business application table. Switch to either quarterly or monthly view of the timeline (third column).
- Create a project or demand to add to the application.
- Paginate the number of applications to be displayed in a single view.
- Expand the business application to view its unified backlog of epics, stories, enhancements, projects, and demands attached to the application. You can also see the total number of these entities within brackets.
You can view the following application backlog entities on the timeline in addition to the projects and demands attached to the application:
- Epics
The high-level business goal of the application is broken down into one or more epics. Epics organize the work required to complete parts of the application goal in small pieces. Epics are further broken down to stories, which are fundamental units of work, that describe the business requirement briefly and can be completed within a sprint. The timeline for the epics is displayed based on the planned start date and planned end date of the epic. The status of epics must not be in Complete or Canceled state.
- Stories
Stories usually are part of an epic. The stories contained in the epic attached to the business application that are not in Complete or Canceled state are displayed in the timeline. The timeline starts with the planned start date and ends with the planned end date of the sprint to which the story is tagged.
- Others
There can be stories that are not attached to an epic but directly associated to the business application itself. Such stories are listed within the epics as Others and displayed in the timeline.
- Enhancements
Enhancements are special requests that come from users with non-scrum role. A scrum product owner reviews these requests and creates one or more user stories. Enhancements in Closed Complete, On Hold, and Canceled state are not displayed in the timeline. The enhancement timeline runs from the Planned start date to its end date when the sprint work is scheduled to begin and end.
- Projects
If the PPM Standard (com.snc.financial_planning_pmo) plugin is activated, then you can add a project to the business application.
- Demands
If the PPM Standard plugin is not activated, then by default, a demand is created.
Note:For the timeline to display the epics, stories, and enhancements, each of these records should reference the business application attached to it. See Associate epic to business application for more information.
- Application column
All the epics, stories, enhancements, projects, and demands listed in the application column are clickable. Clicking each of them opens the record in a new tab that the clickable field points to.
- Risk column
Shows the risks of the business applications only and not the risks of epics, stories, enhancements, projects, or demands.
- Timeline column
The start and end dates of the units of work attached to the business application are plotted as a continuous line. However, if only one date is present, either the start or end date, then just that date is plotted as a filled circle.