Using Pivotal Tracker === ## Abstract The Core Improvements swarm tracks its workflow in a Pivotal project. Although GitHub items can still be created to facilitate communication, the official way to track progress of a functionality/bug fix is in Pivotal. [Project board link](https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/2232205) ## Creating Pivotal Stories Fill in `Story Type`, `Requester`, `Owner` (if already assigned), and `Points` (if an estimate is available). Add a description and optionally group it using a label. As a rule of thumb, Pivotal stories should be grouped in epics for better high-level visibility. Although labels can be used to group stories, the prescribed way to do that is through epics. You can add tasks under a Story for smaller items that don't warrant its own Story. Do add the link to the Pull Request to the Story when one is available. ## Lifetime of a Pivotal story The `State` field in the Pivotal story is used to track the progress of a Pivotal Story, and has the following interpretation: | State | Meaning | | ---------- | -------- | | `Unstarted` | In backlog | | `Started` | Developer has started work on story | | `Finished` | Developer has finished work on story (Pull Request for story is in [REVIEW](https://github.com/status-im/status-react/projects/7#column-1843024) column in [Pipeline for QA](https://github.com/status-im/status-react/projects/7) board) | | `Delivered` | Pull Request for story is in testing in [Pipeline for QA](https://github.com/status-im/status-react/projects/7) board) board | | `Accepted` | PR has been merged | | `Rejected` | PR has been aborted | ### Rules of thumb - **Q:** _When to create a Pivotal story?_ **A:** Stories should be created whenever estimated work exceeds half a day, or when part of a bigger epic. - **Q:** _What do points equate to?_ **A:** We've agreed to make 3 points equate roughly to 1 day of work. From there, we can extrapolate: | Points | Estimated Time | | -------- | ---------------- | | 0 points | < 1 hour | | 1 points | 1 hour - 0.5 days| | 2 points | 0.5 - 1 days | | 3 points | ~1 day | | 5 points | 2 - 3 days | | 8 points | ~1 week | We should avoid 8 point stories by breaking them down into smaller stories as much as possible.