Work Item Selector's current scope and functionality:
Support for Jira ALM Connections only. Coming soon there will be support for the ADO and Rally ALM Connections too.
Support for a single Jira Project team mapping's only. This is at the ALM Connection > Team Mapping level. Coming soon support for piplanning.io Teams that map to multiple Jira Projects.
Currently the limit on the backlog work items that can be fetched from the ALM tool is 100 records. Use the filters in the Work Item selector to find specific work items if your team backlog has great than 100 backlog items.
Purpose of the Work Item Selector
When you are preparing for the next PI Event, or during the actual planning days, or during Sprint Planning ceremonies, you want to quickly and easily:
See all the unplanned Work Items in your Team's Backlog [in the connected ALM tool].
Drag-and-drop any of those individual Work Items in the Backlog onto the Team Board in piplanning.io so they can be planned/scheduled into an Iteration/Sprint.
You want to be able to filter that [ALM] Backlog by Work Item Type, Assignee and/or linked parent Feature.
How to use the Work Item Selector
Launch the Work Item Selector from the utility toolbar in the bottom right
.The Work Item Selector modal will appear on the left of the screen. It automatically fetches all Work Item types that are configured on the #3 Team Board (in the PI Session), that are unplanned, i.e. in the Backlog, and in the mapped Jira Project, ADO Area Path or Rally Project for that [piplanning.io] Team.
Only the top 100 results (unplanned work items from the Team's ALM backlog area) are returned.
Filter the results based on Work Item Type, Assignee or linked parent Feature (coming soon).
Select a work item, and drag-and-drop it onto the Team Board, and then dynamically plan it into an Iteration/Sprint.
The Iteration/Sprint field on the work item will be automatically updated in the ALM tool.
Work Item Selector modal shown on the left with filters and other GUI elements.
How to return a Work Item sticky note back to the Backlog
If you decide that the work item needs to be unplanned and returned to the Backlog in the ALM tool (so it will then reappear back in the Work Item Selector), then simply do the following:
Click on the Work Item sticky note - bring into focus - or use the multi-select to select multiple Work Item sticky notes.
The sticky note toolbar appears, select the Remove button from the Sticky Note toolbar.
The Work Item sticky note will be removed from the Team Board, but it will remain in the backlog area of the ALM tool. The Sprint/Iteration field on the Work Item is simply set to null, and it remains in the ALM tool. You can find/retrieve that work item again from the Work Item Selector if a decision is made to pull that item back into the teams plans for the PI.