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What does each Schedule State mean for a story in Rally. In other words, what are the different stages that a story should pass in its life cycle in Rally.?

  • 1.  What does each Schedule State mean for a story in Rally. In other words, what are the different stages that a story should pass in its life cycle in Rally.?

    Posted Jul 28, 2016 02:59 PM


  • 2.  Re: What does each Schedule State mean for a story in Rally. In other words, what are the different stages that a story should pass in its life cycle in Rally.?
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    Posted Jul 29, 2016 08:33 AM
    Schedule State is somewhat customizable so it can mean whatever your organization needs for it to mean but I can tell you how the four default Schedule State values are used by my company, which is fairly typical:
    • Defined: This is your backlog of work that has not yet been started.
    • In-Progress: This is your first active working state, and moving a story or defect to In-Progress starts the cycle time clock if you're meauring cycle times.
    • Completed: Development and testing has been completed and the work is waiting for a product owner (or similar role) to verify and accept it. At my company we have both Scrum and Kanban teams and the Kanban teams often skip the Completed state.
    • Accepted: This is typically your unabiguous "done" state, and the cycle time clock stops on the Accepted Date.
    Hope that helps.
     


  • 3.  RE: Re: What does each Schedule State mean for a story in Rally. In other words, what are the different stages that a story should pass in its life cycle in Rally.?

    Posted Sep 21, 2020 06:56 PM
    So question - is there a scheduled state that you can have a story in that doesn't count towards responsiveness?


  • 4.  Re: What does each Schedule State mean for a story in Rally. In other words, what are the different stages that a story should pass in its life cycle in Rally.?

    Posted Jul 29, 2016 11:34 AM
    Thank you. This helps.


  • 5.  Re: What does each Schedule State mean for a story in Rally. In other words, what are the different stages that a story should pass in its life cycle in Rally.?

    Posted Aug 18, 2016 03:50 AM
    To add more on this, there are two custom state you can add. One before Defined and one after Accepted. This provide some customisation in case more state is needed.