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August 28, 2023

Adobe Workfront Experts on Agile

  • August 28, 2023
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August 29th, 2023

 

We are happy to welcome Natalie Mitchell, Group Product Manager & Patrick Muir, Product Manager and Cynthia Boon, Customer Success Manager for an AMA session about Agile features and functionality. 

 

Our experts:

  • Natalie Mitchell and Patrick Muir are from the Product Management teams at Adobe.
  • Cynthia Boon is Customer Success Manager at Adobe.

 

How this AMA works:

  • This thread will open on Tuesday, August 29, for you to start submitting your questions.
  • Reply to this post with any questions you have for our Experts. They will reply to as many of your questions as possible. 
  • After the AMA is over, the thread will be locked for new replies, but it will remain visible as a resource. 
    This post is no longer active and is closed to new replies. Need help? Start a new post to ask your question.

    9 replies

    CynthiaBoon
    Adobe Employee
    CynthiaBoonAdobe Employee
    Adobe Employee
    August 29, 2023
     
     
     
      J_Mas
      J_Mas
      Level 5
      August 29, 2023

      Are there plans to allow for reporting based on boards? If so, can you provide some details on what we can expect and when?

      P
      Adobe Employee
      PatrickMu1Adobe Employee
      Adobe Employee
      August 29, 2023

      Yes, the engineering team is currently working on implementing reporting for Boards and for agile specifically. The team is building out Cumulative Flow Diagram and Burn Down chart. I would anticipate this feature makes it into production between Nov - Jan. 

       

      And general Boards reporting should be available sometime in early 2024. 

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        CathieLe
        Level 2
        August 29, 2023

        Can you please provide guidance on when to use Workstreams vs. just a Board.

        NatalieM27
        Adobe Employee
        NatalieM27Adobe Employee
        Adobe Employee
        August 29, 2023

        There are a couple of opportunities with Workstreams that you cannot accomplish with just a Board. Workstreams enables Scrum functions, specifically iteration building and tracking and also allows you to share a single backlog of cards between multiple Boards. In the future, Workstreams will likely be the best place to track real-time metrics across initiatives that are shared between multiple teams and/or Boards.

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          CathieLe
          Level 2
          August 29, 2023

          Is there a location where we can see known issues with Boards?  This will prevent continuously providing feedback on things we see not working.

            CynthiaBoon
            Adobe Employee
            CynthiaBoonAdobe Employee
            Adobe Employee
            August 29, 2023

            Hey Cathie! 

             

            The Agile team posts any issues that they are tracking on the Known Issues page:

            https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/workfront-known-issues/issues/overview.html?lang=en

             

            But! Natalie and Patrick love when customers use the feedback button on the Boards page.  😃

             

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            CathieLe
            Level 2
            August 29, 2023

            Not on the list linked above. In Workstream/Iteration board, cannot add two people to a card although there is an +Add Assignment button.  It asks to select User or Team, but when clicked nothing happens.  Is this really a defect or am I missing something?

             

            lindselib
            lindselib
            Level 4
            August 29, 2023

            Hi there! @CynthiaBoon 

             

            We are trying to switch to more agile methodologies, but are struggling to figure out how to utilize the agile pages/methods in conjunction with the Workload balancer. Any tips on how to marry these two?

             

            Thanks,

            Lindsey

            NatalieM27
            Adobe Employee
            NatalieM27Adobe Employee
            Adobe Employee
            August 29, 2023

            Hi @lindselib!

             

            There might be a couple of possibilities here. In order to address your question the best way, can you share what you need Workload Balancer to accomplish?

            gunaymusayeva
            gunaymusayeva
            Level 2
            August 29, 2023

            Hello. We loved boards view in Projects. However our clients are very interested in having checklists function for project tasks. Is this in progress for future releases?

            Regards,
            Gunay Musayeva (Workfront Consultant at Tisson & Company)

            P
            Adobe Employee
            PatrickMu1Adobe Employee
            Adobe Employee
            August 29, 2023

            We will be adding a version of checklist items for Project Boards, but they will be tied to workfront subtasks. The functionality will be similar to checklist items.

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              SummerBi
              August 29, 2023

              Hi all

              Can I ask a question about calculated field please? I would like to create a calculated field at job level to indicated if the job is going to have more acutal spent hours when it's finish. ie caluclation below, 

               

              (actual hours so far  + planned hours for the reamaining tasks - ie planned hours where actual is 0) - total planned hours, at job level, if this number is negative, means this job is potentially going into loss. 

               

              hope that makes sense, thanks for the help

               

              NicholeVargas
              Adobe Employee
              NicholeVargasAdobe Employee
              Adobe Employee
              August 29, 2023

              @summerbi I assume when you refer to a job, you're talking a project in Workfront. If I have misunderstood that, please let me know!

              I don't have an answer for you right now, I'd have to do some testing with calculated custom fields and text mode columns. I will reply back to this comment (ideally by end of day) once I have a more a definite answer for you. Stay tuned! 

              S
              SummerBi
              August 29, 2023

              thank you, I'm referring WorkFront yes, job sits under project. thank you helping

              CynthiaBoon
              Adobe Employee
              CynthiaBoonAdobe Employee
              Adobe Employee
              August 29, 2023

              THANK YOU to everyone who joined in and asked questions on today's Agile Coffee Break!

               

              Join us at future LIVE events (with video!) in September - be sure to check the Events page to sign up! 

               

              Happy Trails! 🤠

              C
              CatherineKe
              Level 5
              December 7, 2023

              @patrickmu1I'm hoping I can still ask questions on this thread... We are very interested to know if Workfront plans to add the task number to the card on boards? The card view needs a link back to the project view. We'd like to see the task number from the project view appear on the card and be a link.

               

              Thanks, Cathy

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