Lighweight command line tool for agile project management
Project description
Lightweight command line tool for agile project management.
Free software: MIT License
Installation
To install the jicagile package.
pip install jicagile
Or install it from source.
git clone https://github.com/JIC-CSB/jicagile.git
cd jicagile
python setup.py install
Usage
The package comes with a command line utility named agl. When you run the agl command it assumes that you are in a directory where you want to store your agile project management files.
The command below creates a task with the title "Learn how to use agl cmd line" of size 3. The available story point sizes are 1, 3, 5 and 8.
agl add "Learn how to use agl cmd line" 3
This will create a backlog directory and place a file named learn-how-to-use-agl-cmd-line.yml file in it. It will also create the directories current/{{todo,done}}.
To move the task to the current sprint.
mv backlog/learn-how-to-use-agl-cmd-line.yml current/todo
To mark the task as done.
mv current/todo/learn-how-to-use-agl-cmd-line.yml current/done
To add a task to the current “todo” list one can use the -c argument (mnemonic current).
agl add -c "Email friends about jicagile" 1
To list the content of the backlog.
agl list backlog/
The todo and done directories have aliases so you do not need to specify the full path to list their content.
agl list todo
agl list done
You can edit tasks using your favorite text editor or you can use the agl edit command. For example the command below increases the number of story points from one to five.
agl edit current/todo/email-friends-about-jicagile.yml --storypoints=5
You can add themes to your project.
agl theme add admin "Emails, forms, meetings, etc"
agl edit current/todo/email-friends-about-jicagile.yml --theme=admin
Themes are stored in a .themes.yml file.
You can specify a team as well by manually creating a .team.yml file in the agile project directory.
---
- lookup: TO
first_name: Tjelvar
last_name: Olsson
- lookup: MH
first_name: Matthew
last_name: Hartley
You can then associate a task with a primary contact. (This may not be very agile in that anyone is meant to pick up any task, but I find that it can be useful.)
agl add "Write report" 8 -p MH -e admin
In the above -p is the short hand for --primary-contact and -e is short hand for --theme.
Note that as the agl tool simply creates text files it can be used together with git. It can be quite satisfying to have the agile project management file under version control on GitHub.
Once you have had your sprint review meeting and all the relevant files have been moved to the current/done directory create a directory named past_sprints.
mkdir past_sprints
Then move and rename the current/done directory there with todays date using a year-month-day scheme.
mv current/todo past_sprints/2016-06-19
Release notes
0.2.0
Refactored and redesigned the command line interface
Improved test coverage
Added color to list output
Added ability to associate a task with a theme
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