Hi John, I agree with Eric as usual. I'll add a little bit as well. You can do the grooming and creation of subtasks in all the ways you mentioned. While it's true projects and iterations are two separate entities, you can still create your tasks and subtasks in either place. The end result will be the same. It's the assignment of the Agile Team that causes a Task or Sub Task to appear in the Backlog (and eventually the Iteration). So the Backlog or Iteration View will only display the Task (whether it's a Parent or Subtask) if the task is assigned to that Team . That's what makes it show up in that Backlog View. So you can break it down in the project if you wish, it'll be the same affect. I believe Eric is referring to the Storyboard view for a project, which I agree isn't useful (at least not for us). But creating subtasks or sub-stories is all the same result if you assign to the Agile Team. Procedurally what I'd recommend is to just open the Task (via the Backlog or Iteration view depending on whether you want those sub tasks to be in the Iteration), and go to the Sub Task tab and create your subtasks that way, remembering to assign them to the Team. Then they'll show up either in your Backlog or your Iteration (depending on where you started the process). And I also created a Backlog View that contains the Parent Task name so we can see which stories are related to a larger story (Parent). Regarding the remaining tasks that didn't get completed in the iteration, what I do is create the next iteration, then click on the list view of the old iteration and bulk select the incomplete tasks and do a bulk Move to the new iteration. You can get to that list view of the Iteration by clicking on the Iteration name/link (see attached). Then you'll have a view that you can also change like any other if you wanted to see more information. Hope that helps. Vic Alejandro, PMP, CSM | IT | Sr. IT Project Manager Denver Water | t: (303-628-7262) | c: (303-319-6473) "http://www.denverwater.org/">
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