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ZCOPE Tip: To start with a to do list

You may start your projects in ZCOPE as you wish, one possible start is the to do list. Here’s a short instruction how we do it:

For this purpose I create a task list and fill it with all the tasks that come to my mind. Once this is done I think of an appropriate grouping of tasks and create new task lists based on that. Then I move the tasks from the original to do list into the corresponding new task list: in ZCOPE you do that by drag & drop, it’s as simple as that.

We used this approach also for a SCRUM sprint: the single task lists stand fort he calendar weeks (CW), where we placed the tasks from the original to do list. In this way we could even image dependencies: What must be finished at first, goes into an earlier CW as the one depending on it. At the weekly meetings we talked about the tasks still open and moved them in a future CW if necessary.

All in the purpose of agile project management changes appeared during the sprint and we had to redispose. Thereto we created new task lists (Sprint 2 CW Y, etc.) and moved some of the tasks from the old sprint (Sprint 1 CW 1, etc.) into them. All the remaining tasks from the old sprint now are in one single task list (Sprint 1) until needed and planned.

Conclusion: The rescheduling was done in very little time, tasks of the postponed sprint won’t be lost, but aren’t in the way. Well, a successful experiment ;-)