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Darrien_Horn
Community Manager
August 28, 2023

Coffee Break on 8/29/23: Agile with Adobe Workfront Product Experts, Natalie Mitchell & Patrick Muir

  • August 28, 2023
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We are facing technical difficulties with commenting on the original post, please post your questions and comments HERE for the Workfront Community Coffee Break on Agile!

 
Adobe Workfront offers several tools to help you define agile workflows. The legacy agile planning tools include a backlog and a storyboard for Kanban or Scrum teams, and the Workfront boards feature offers simple yet flexible tools for team collaboration.
 
In this upcoming Coffee Break scheduled for August 29 from 8 am - 9 am PDT, join the Adobe Workfront Agile Product team for an exclusive opportunity to ask questions related to Agile features and functionality.  
 
This text-only event takes place here in the Workfront Experience League Community! Post your burning questions, hot tips, and key takeaways, and let’s chat about them! Our experts will be interacting live on this thread for that hour, but the conversation can always continue!  
 
Please note that this is a TEXT-ONLY event and there will be NO webinar link or video call with the experts. This also means that there will be no recording or sign-up page, thank you for your understanding! Be sure to check out our Experience League Events page for more conventional event formats!
 
For some guidance, here are some sample questions for the Workfront Agile Product Team:
  • Is there a way to show existing projects in a Boards view?
  • How do I pull in cards from existing projects? 
  • And how do I link the column progress to the tasks progress?
  • Can I import requests (issues) directly into a Board?
 
We also strongly recommend the following resources to get you up to speed with this topic:
 

 

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    CatherineKe
    New Participant
    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

    CynthiaBoon
    CynthiaBoon
    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! 🤠

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    SummerBi
    New Participant
    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

     

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    NicholeVargas
    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! 

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    SummerBi
    New Participant
    August 29, 2023

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

    gunaymusayeva
    gunaymusayeva
    New Participant
    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)

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    PatrickMu1
    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.

      lindselib
      lindselib
      New Participant
      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
      NatalieM27
      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?

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      CathieLe
      New Participant
      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
        CynthiaBoon
        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
        New Participant
        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?

         

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        CathieLe
        New Participant
        August 29, 2023

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

        NatalieM27
        NatalieM27
        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.

          J_Mas
          J_Mas
          New Participant
          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?

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          PatrickMu1
          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. 

            CynthiaBoon
            CynthiaBoon
            Employee
            August 29, 2023
             
             
             
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