I'm pretty new to SCRUM and have a question that hopefull you SCRUMMasters out there have either dealt with, or have a good solution for.
We have a number of developers working in this current Sprint, and as developers finish their work, we are allowing them to take over tasks that were assigned to another developer. Right now, all we do is change the "who" column to the new developer, and delete the old. We also put in the note column that this task was originally assigned to XYZ, but that's it.
The problem we are now seeing is at the end of the Sprint when we are doing our lessons learned and tallying up the committed to work vs. completed work, we are seeing a fundamental flaw.
For example, if Jon Doe signed up for 50 hours at the beginning of the sprint, and Susie Doe signed up for 100 hours, but halfway through the Sprint Susie finished up her stuff, and took over 10 hours of Jon Doe's task, it now looks as if Susie Doe commited to 110 hours, and Jon Doe only committed to 40. It does not show that Susie actually finished her work early and needed more hours. Once we change the "who" the raw effort is now associated with Susie, the only thing we can refer to are the notes. Any recommendations?
Hope this isn't too confusing, and any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Saving Changes...
You could break Joe's task into 2: one of 40 hrs which was done by Jon and the other of 10 which was done by Suzie.
If uve worked in MS Project, there is a view named 'Tasks Details Form'. you can use it to enter the actual work expended by the 2 resources on the same task. Saving Changes...
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For what you are encountering, I highly suggest you use the following reference book:
