so you understand what dependencies are you understand
how to manage dependencies or remove dependencies now where the problem or the gap is
how do you track the dependencies in order to better manage them how do you do it that
is the question my name is karen for marvel your agile evangelist and welcome back to my channel
today we will be discussing from my own experience how i have tracked dependencies what i use
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thank you so much now let's go straight into the topic so how do you track dependencies
what do you use to track dependencies that should be the question first of all i need to put this
out there we do not appreciate dependencies no the first thing we want to do is how do we remove
dependencies if we have done all that we can and um we still have some dependencies that we just
have to accept and manage them okay that this video today will be helpful to cover that gap
for the dependencies that cannot be removed for whatever reason how do we track them that is the
big question for today now to help answer this question first of all it depends on the tool
that you and your organization uses to manage um your work and track issues okay
in my experience i have used jira to track dependencies i have used jira and how do i do that
it really depends on the package your organization is paying for if you're using jira it depends on
the package organization is paying for so if you go into jira right unfortunately i am not
able to show us anything here because of some different confidentiality reasons so if you go
into jira where you have the issue type let's say you're trying to create a work item right
where you have an issue time where you have to select the kind of issues and the common kinds
of issues that will be there you would have user stories you would have task you have um spike
again depending on your your functionalities and the package that your organization is paying for
okay but the one that i have used when when we just started using that jira
we did not have all these options in the issue types that i just listed to you the only
options that we had was we had user stories we had tasks and then we had um risk those were the issue
types we had and then as we continuously work we we realized the need to have other options
added to our issue types you see so we we as an organization and as teams we voted for that
functionalities to be for extra things to be added into our jira package okay so our organization
decided to go for it they paid for it and on the issue type we added dependency as an issue type we
also added spike as an issue type okay so all what you have to do let's say you are you're working
your user journey discovering the product and then you identify an issue you identify dependency that
you will have to to to um track all what you have to do is when you go and like you want to create
a work item instead of selecting user story you will select dependency that's really it that's
really all what it's all about you will select dependency as that issue type and then it and
then you can choose to pull it into your sprint but you will not be estimating anything on it
and but so it's just to keep track and then as you you're discussing your work as you're progressing
with the work you will also be discussing it and see how you're managing it and how it's you are
you're eradicating it as you go so that's one way and then another way is still in jira jira
is a powerful tool though still in jira and by the way this is not a paid ad or anything like
that i'm not advertising it for any money or if it's for zero dollar so i'm just you know sharing
my experience that's really what i'm doing so in my experience another thing that we have done is
still in jira we created a whole um space on its own just for dependencies so all you
have to do is you go there again because as the package organization decided to pay for
we there's a whole section in jira just for dependencies where you can go there just go and
select your team it's the whole dashboard you select your team and boom it will show
you all the dependencies that you have for um whatever time period you you have selected
and for the work item for the the epic order the product you're working on it's going to show you
all the dependencies that you have created and you have entered in there in all in one place
and through that you're able to have conversations you know and clarify on things just by looking
just by that visual it's a very powerful tool and then some other things that um
or some other organizations that really may not have these dependencies the other um dependency
functionality in the algeria they go by normal other tools like miro they can also use mirror to
track their dependencies some other organizations may use even even an excel spreadsheet you know so
it's just a way to capture all of these things in one place to create visualization
so that you can easily discuss through them and you know do whatever you have to do to remove
them to manage them and and you go your way so but yes that is that's how i have used it in the past
so if you are currently a working scrum master and you're not sure how those things are done ask
your organization you know what um so if you don't have that in your jira let your organization know
that jira has that that capability jira has that capability to track all those things
so if you don't have it you should you all can vote for it and and your organization will pay
for it that is if you're able to sell it to them and show the value it will bring okay so it can
easily do that for you so yeah that's what i have done also check on azure devops azure devops 2
on their various issue types they should um they should have um that functionality the
dependency functionality where you can create the dependency just within that tool and in one nice
place you can easily pull it up you know sort it and pull it up and see um you know all of
the the dependencies you have and from there you have whatever conversation you're looking to have
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