How to Manage Software Development Process with Tasifier? Written Date : September 10, 2014

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1 How to Manage Software Development Process with Tasifier? Written Date : September 10, 2014 Software development is not an individual task but rather, a teamwork involving people with diverse competence such as programmers, engineers and analysts in order to get things done. Since different parties need to cooperate, an effective way of task management is very crucial to help in planning, storing, managing and keeping track of those countless number of development activities. Tasifier is a task management tool which is tailor-made for software developers. With Tasifier, developers know clearly what to do and everything becomes systematic. In the following, we will show you a tutorial on how Tasifier works by demonstrating the way to create tasks, work on the tasks as well as reviewing all tasks. Create tasks in Tasifier To perform this tutorial, you have to first get Tasifier started: 1. Login to VPository by entering your address and password then click Login. Page 1 of 12

2 2. Click on Tasifier icon. A project, Warehouse in this case is appeared in the left pane. Under the project, you can see 'Task Pools'. As the name implies, a task pool is a 'pool of tasks' and it contains a group of similar or inter-related tasks under the same project. To create a task pool and a task under the project: 3. Click on the Plus button next to the TASK POOLS caption in the left pane. Page 2 of 12

3 4. Enter the name of the task pool in the main pane and press Enter to confirm. 5. Click on the empty row and enter the subject of your task, normally a summary of what you need to do under this particular task and press enter to confirm. 6. Click on the task and this shows the task pane. Page 3 of 12

4 7. Click on the description area under the subject to enter the edit mode of task description. Enter the task details. You can add a new line by pressing Enter. To confirm editing, press Ctrl-Enter or click on the region outside the description field. 8. After filling in the details, you can specify the due date of the task. Click Due Date near the top right corner of the task pane to set the deadline. 9. Select a due date from the calendar or simply type the due date in the Due Date field. Page 4 of 12

5 10. Next, you can set an assignee to the task. Click on the icon on the top-left corner of the task pane to assign the task to your team member. 11. Click the icon of a member to appoint him or her to be the assignee of the task. 12. In order to make sure the task has been implemented correctly, click the icon on the top-right corner of the task pane to set a verifier. Page 5 of 12

6 13. Click the icon of a member to appoint him or her to be the verifier of the task. Later on, when the assignee completes a task, the verifier will see the task listed in his/her My Task page, waiting for him/her to make verification to. Now you have created one task completely. If you want to create another task(s), repeat step Although many tasks have been created and also assigned, since the task pool hasn't kicked off yet, the corresponding assignees still do not receive the tasks: 14. Click Kick off in the page of the Task Pool. Page 6 of 12

7 15. After kicking off, the assigned task will appear on the New list of the assignees. Work on the tasks Now, let's look closely at how to work on the tasks. Click on My Tasks in the left pane and this will list out all the tasks that you have been assigned in the New list. Then, you can decide whether the tasks are urgent to deal with or not. If yes, you can move them to the To do list. Otherwise, you can move them to the Pending list: 1. Drag a task from the new list and Drop it on the To do list or Pending list depends on the level of urgency. Moreover, you can further prioritize your tasks in each list by the drag and drop action. 2. Click on a task. Page 7 of 12

8 3. Click on the comment area at the bottom of the Task Pane to ask questions, type your comment(s) or provide supplementary information related to a task by clicking Attach file next to the Post button, and then select the file to attach. You may attach multiple files at a time to your comment. Click Post to send out. 4. Assign the task to the corresponding team member (refer to step 11 & 12 of the previous section.) 5. The particular task will then appear on the New list of the assignee for review and comment. Page 8 of 12

9 6. Type to reply in the comment area and Click Post and Assign back button to assign to back to the person who just posted a comment (you). 7. The particular task will then appear on the New list of your Task pane again. 8. Click the Complete button if nothing need to be further modified to mark the task complete. Page 9 of 12

10 9. The task will appear on the New list of the verifier. Click on the task and verify it. 10. Click the Close button at the bottom-right of the comment area to mark the task closed if nothing need to be further modified. After the task is closed, that particular task will NOT appear on any list of anyone anymore. Review all the tasks in a project When you need to evaluate the progress of a certain project or look for related tasks in a particular task pool, you might want to review all the tasks in a project. 1. Click on the name of a project or a task pool on the left pane to review all tasks at a time. Page 10 of 12

11 2. Click Closed near the top-right corner of the task pane right under the Search field to browse also the closed task. 3. Click the down arrow on Sort by priority above the listed tasks and choose the sorting strategy that you prefer: Sort by assignee, Sort by priority or Sort by due date. Running Tasifer in Other than running Tasifer on the web browser through VPository, it can also be accessed in Visual paradigm. To open Tasifer in, you can perform one of the followings: Select Teamwork and then click Tasifier from the main menu, or Click on the Team tool from the toolbar and select Tasifer from the drop down menu. Tasifier will then be opened as a new tab within with exactly the same interface as VPository. This is for you to plan your work based on your design and to perform your task more effectively. Page 11 of 12

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