Agilebuddy User Guide Walkthrough

User Guide

This guide will walk you through step-by-step on how to use
Agilebuddy.

For more help please visit
http://www.agilebuddy.com/tour
or email support@agilebuddy.com

Logging in to Agilebuddy.com

Every company receives its own url for logging into Agilebuddy. Enter your url
into any of the supported browsers (Firefox and Safari recommended) and
click enter.

In the example below, the url is “yourcompanyname”.agilebuddy.com.
Enter your company’s url and click enter.

Enter your 
company url 
here 

http://www.agilebuddy.com

Logging in

When the login screen appears, enter your username and password.

Note: When you registered through www.agilebuddy.com, you should
have received a verification email. You must verify your account first by
clicking on the link in the email.


Home page
Once logged in, you will be presented with your home page, the default
landing page. The first time you login, you will be met with a welcome screen,
directing you to create a new product. Agilebuddy tracks projects by product,
release and sprint.

Agilebuddy provides you with “blankslate” help to guide first time users
through every step of the process.

Note: The first person to signup will be the default administrator of the
site and can setup new users via the administration menu (top right)


Creating your first product

Click on “Create new
product” and complete Enter the 
the information on the Product name 
“Create A New Product”
dialog box.

Agilebuddy automatically creates your first
release (Version 1) and iteration (Sprint 1)
for you. You can edit the default names
selected later.

Product  Release  Sprint 


Creating your first user story

Click on the Agilebuddy product tab to begin filling the product backlog

Click “Create a new user story” to add your first user story to the
product backlog or click on the “+” sign on the Create tab and select
“User Story”


Creating a new user story

All that is required to define a user story is the description field. All other
fields are optional.

Enter the
size in Story
Points or
Ideal Hours. User story
source e.g.
Customer,
Internal etc.

User
definable
fields. Click
new to add
new type

To further define the user story enter Feature name, Priority, Business value, Risk, or
Business objective. The user story can also be assigned to a team member responsible
for the task breakdown.


Creating a new user story
Finish adding as many user stories as you want. If you’re adding more than one
user story at a time, clicking save will create the user story and allow you to
enter in a second user story without having to click on “Create User Story” again.

Once you have added user stories to your product backlog you can
begin using Agilebuddy to its full extent. The following slide shows a
example of a fully populated product backlog.


Product page (showing product backlog)

Once you have added some user stories to the product backlog, your product backlog
should look something like the product backlog below . The product backlog can be
grouped and sorted. You can also search for user stories. Each user story is identified
with a unique id#.

Product

Backlog
Search
Sort on 
column 
headings


Sprint page (showing sprint backlog)
The Sprint page, contains all of the information required to manage the sprint.
Navigate to the Sprint page by clicking on the Sprint tab.

Sprint Tab
Sprint 
backlog

Burndown 
chart

Team chart

The Sprint page displays:
•  Calendar •  Backlog •  Feature list
•  Goals •  Bugs list •  Activity log
•  Burndown chart •  Blocker board •  Team chart,
•  Team chart •  Shared attachments •  Estimating and planning pages


Sprint page – Information radiators
From the Sprint page you are able to view various aspects of the Sprint. A
summary of the sprint, the sprint burndown, a team widget that shows total
hours allocated for this sprint, the milestones calendar and your sprint goals.

Goal View:
Summary View:
View the Sprint’s: Goals,
View the Sprint’s:
Burndown and Team
Summary, Burndown and
Widget
Milestone View:
Team Widget
View the Sprint’s:
Milestone Calendar,
Burndown and Team
Widget


From the Sprint page you are able to view various aspects of the Sprint. A
summary of the sprint, the sprint burndown, a team widget that shows total
hours allocated for this sprint, the milestones calendar and your sprint goals.



The team panel shows all team members assigned to the sprint. The team panel
also shows total hours remaining to the team member across all projects as well
as total hours remaining for this sprint.


Sprint page (showing sprint backlog)
The Sprint page, contains all of the information required to manage the sprint.
Navigate to the Sprint page by clicking on the Sprint tab.

User story
Task

Has  Has 
comment attachment

• View details • Delete • Add attachments
• Edit • Start/Stop (tasks)
• Add comment • Add tasks


Sprint page (showing sprint bugs list)

Navigate to the sprint bugs list by clicking on the Bugs tab.

Sprint Tab
Sprint bugs


Sprint page (showing sprint blockers)

Navigate to the sprint blockers page by clicking on the Blockers tab.

Blockers 
tab 

A fully populated Product backlog

Sprint page (showing sprint shared attachments)

Navigate to the shared attachments by clicking on the Attachments tab.

Shared 
Blockers  attachments 
tab 

You can upload and store any documents or file types at all levels. In this example two
documents have been uploaded to the Sprint page. You can download the documents or
add comments to them. All file types are supported up to 50MB per document.


Sprint page (showing sprint features)

Navigate to the blockers page by clicking on the Features tab.

Features 
tab 

You can add features by clicking on the Create menu “+” sign and then select “Feature”
from the drop down menu. You can also add feature “on the fly” on the create user story
dialog.


Sprint page (showing sprint activity)
Navigate to the sprint activity page by clicking on the Activity tab.

Activity 
tab 

The Sprint activity will show only and all activity for just the selected sprint. You can link
directly to a user home page by clicking on the team members name. You can go directly
to the item details page by clicking on the item.


Sprint page (showing sprint team members)

Navigate to the Team page by clicking on the Team tab.

Team tab 

Add team 
members 

You can add team members to the Sprint team by clicking on the Add “+” action. You can
view which task have are in progress for each member and how many hours and points are
assigned to each member.


Sprint page (showing sprint estimating tab)

Navigate to the estimate page by clicking on the Estimate tab. The Sprint estimate page
lets you easily check previously estimated stories and very quickly estimate Sprint user
stories via single click of the mouse.

Estimate 
tab 

Once estimated, user stories are grouped
by their story point size.


Sprint page (showing sprint planning tab)

Navigate to the Sprint planning page by clicking on the Plan tab.

Plan tab 

Schedule 
out 

You can schedule user stories in and out of
the Sprint with a single click of the mouse.
Schedule 
in 


Home page (showing user stories tab)
The home page is your personal page. The home page shows all items
(user stories, tasks, blockers and bugs) assigned to you across all
projects.

Note: Team members can view each others home page by clicking the
name, on the home page dropdown.

Your user  Your  Your  Your  Your 
stories  Bugs  Blockers  activity  products 


Home page – Information radiators
The home page also displays the company product calendar and status
feed.

Users can update their status just
like “Facebook”


Home page (showing products tab)
The home page also displays the company products table that you have
permissions to see.

Products 
tab 

The products table display’s hi-level summary information of each active
project, including start and stop dates, current iteration, total hours left.


Interacting with the site

You can create Features, User stories, Tasks, Bugs, Blocker via the Create menu. You can
also define new Products, Releases or Sprints.

After you create an item a status dialog pops up confirming
status. Links are provided to direct you to the items details
page.



Creating a new product…

Note: On creation of a new Product, you
are given the option to assign which
team members have access to the
product.



Creating a new release…

Note: The status selected shows up in
the Products table



Creating a new sprint…

Note: You can define Sprint goals in the
goals section which will be prominently
displayed on the Sprint page.


Product Page

The Product page displays the Product calendar along with all product
milestones, the product backlog, product bugs, product documents, a list of
product features, the activity log for all product interactions, product bugs and
blockers, team members, estimating and planning.


Release Page
The release page displays the release calendar and release burn-up chart along with
the release backlog, bugs and blockers, release documents, features and activity
and estimate and planning pages.


Iteration (or sprint) page

The sprint page displays the sprint calendar and sprint burn-down chart along with
the sprint backlog, bugs and blockers, sprint documents, features and activity and
estimate and planning pages.


User story details page

Click on the “Go to this user story details page” to show the details page. This page shows all the
activity for this story, any documents attached, plus all the comments and summary information.


User management

Adding Team members
1. Click on 
Administration

Click on Administration to open the Administration
Console.

2: Click “Create User” to add new 
users to your Organization 


User management

Clicking create user opens the Create New User dialog box

Enter appropriate user information.
Assign roles and permissions for
project access.


Task management

Adding tasks…

There are two ways to create tasks in Agilebuddy. Direct via the Create
menu, or using the Create task action in the Sprint Backlog

1. Via Create menu

Choose a Story for 
which this task is 
for

Enter hours required 
to complete the task 


Task management Click “Add 
tasks to this 
user story”
Adding tasks…

2. Via the Actions on the Sprint backlog

Note: You can only add tasks to the Sprint Backlog. The
task entry dialog lets you enter original estimate in hours
for the task.


Task management

Updating the daily estimates…

In Sprint Backlog or from the home page, click on edit link in the “Hours Left” column
to update your daily estimates.


Task management

Updating the daily estimates…

You can click on the edit a task icon.


Task management

Start, stop and update tasks using the Actions provided

You can access the start and stop actions from the
Sprint page or the home page. Starting a task
automatically updates the task status to “In progress”.

Clicking on stop
lets you pause a
task or complete it
and record the
actual time spent
on the task


Task management

Assigning tasks…

You can assign tasks from the task level action

Or you can assing tasks
directly via the task
creation dialog


Collaboration

Clicking on the Add
comment icon lets you add
comment to an item.
Hovering your mouse over
the “(1 comment)” tag,
displays all comments
associate with this item.


Status feed

Casually inform team members of what you’re
doing and keep everyone in sync.

All postings
appear in the
status feed on
the home page.


Product Backlog Actions

Delete User 
Story
Open (or 
Go to user  close) User 
story Story

Add 
attachments

Edit User 
Add 
Story
comments

Users can perform multiple actions on each item in the backlog. E.g. Show details,
Edit, Delete, Add attachments, Add comments or Complete/Close User Stories


Story point estimating

Agilebuddy provides single click story point estimating!

Agilebuddy supports estimating in story points or ideal hours or days. It is
important to note that you are consistent, so once you start with story
points, stay with story points.

In this version, Agilebuddy only supports one estimating scale – modified
fibonaci (in accordance with most Agile coaches).

i.e. 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 20, 40, 100

Agilebuddy provides a unique interface for relative estimating – which is the
Agile way of estimating.

The interface therefore provides a means for easily comparing stories to be
estimated with stories that have already been estimated. According to
researchers, relative estimating is attributed to far more accurate estimates.


Story point estimation

Click on Estimate when you are 
in the product, release or 
iteration page to estimate. 

Cycle through 
previously 
estimated stories
Story point 
“buckets”

Assign story 
points or ideal 
hours to stories


Planning
Plan releases or sprints. Agilebuddy supports both release and sprint planning.
To get to planning click on the Plan tab.
Click on the 
planning tab

Plan user 
stories OR 
bugs

Make sure you
have the right sprint
or release selected.

Check to see that your size left < average sprint velocity
Schedule stories in or
out of a release or
sprint


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