Mobile web/Mingle

For project and workflow management, the Mobile Web team uses Mingle. Various housekeeping and procedural things in Mingle are documented here. Some if not all of these are specific to the mobile web project.

All procedures below assume that you are logged in to the 'Mobile web' project in Mingle.

Adding a new iteration
A new 'iteration' should be added at some point prior to beginning planning for that iteration.

Adding new iteration to current release

 * 1) From any screen, click 'Add card' at the bottom of the screen
 * 2) Under 'Card type', select 'Iteration'
 * 3) Give the iteration a name
 * 4) Click 'Add with detail'
 * 5) Under 'Release' at the bottom of the screen, select '(Current Release)'

Adding new iteration some other release

 * 1) Follow the steps 1-4 above.
 * 2) Under 'Release' at the bottom of the screen, click 'select card' and find the appropriate release to use

Iteration planning
There have been a variety of views prepared in Mingle to help facilitate the various iteration planning meetings.

Story prioritization
Prior to the story prioritization meeting, you will want to prepare the 'iteration planning' view. This view should include the following columns before the meeting begins:
 * The bug backlog
 * The release/quarterly story backlog
 * The current iteration's backlog
 * The next iteration (the iteration you're planning for) backlog


 * 1) Ensure that the iteration for which you are planning has already been added to Mingle (see Mobile_web/Mingle/)
 * 2) Select 'Iteration planning' under 'Team favorites' (an expandable menu on the right side of the screen)
 * 3) Click the '-' on any columns you want to remove (typically you only need to remove the iteration prior to the current iteration)
 * 4) Click the '+' on the right hand column of the view
 * 5) Select the next iteration

After story cards/bugs have been selected for the upcoming iteration, make sure the product owner actually puts the cards in priority order:
 * 1) Select 'rank cards' in the upper left corner of the grid view
 * 2) Move cards around so that they are in priority order (order from highest to lowest goes from top left to bottom right)

Adding a new 'release'

 * 1) Give the rlease a name - we follow the convention '  ', for instance '2013/2014 Q2'