Salesforce Agile Accelerator Manage Your Agile Development from Salesforce

Salesforce Agile Accelerator helps manage your agile product development in salesforce.   Agile Accelerator consolidates scrum, QA, and bug tracking into a single, interface, called GUS (Grand Unified System).  With the help of sprints we can organize our work into manageable chunks.

Salesforce Agile Accelerator, a new Salesforce Labs app, development teams can:

• Track business requirements, measure progress, and successfully deliver releases – right from Salesforce.
• Use drag and drop tools to manage backlogs, sprints, and user stories.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams through Chatter, linking actual business needs to development efforts.

Agile Accelerator is free app exchange product. We can download it from following url:-

https://appexchange.salesforce.com/listingDetail?listingId=a0N30000000ps3jEAA

We can install it in the developer sand box. Once it get installed , we can check it from following:-

Setup -> Build -> Develop -> Installed Packages

Create Product Tags

From Product Tag tab click on New Product Tag and enter tag name. 

Click on Create new button to create new user story or bug.

Create Sprint

Click on sprint tab and click new. Enter the name of the agile team that you created earlier in the Agile Team field. Populate the Start Date and End Date fields.Click Save button.

Salesforce Epic

An Epic is a large User Story that can’t be completed in a single sprint or sometimes even multiple sprints. Because Epics are large projects, Agile teams break them down into smaller, manageable User Stories.

To create new EPIC, click on new button and enter below details:-

Epic Name

Description

Design Lead

Development Lead

Quality Lead

Team

Design Complete

Tech Design Complete

Test Design Complete

Work

• Click the Sprint tab and then New Work. 
• From Record Type, select User Story then click continue. 
• Other choices are bugs and investigations. 
• A description of each record type is shown at the bottom of the page.

Task

From your sprint, click the drop-down arrow within a user story and then select Add task

Backlog Manager

From  backlog manager, we can manage all team's work.

• Click the Backlog Manager tab. 

• You are shown two panels by default: your team’s backlog and backburner. 

• The backlog is for user stories that your team has prioritized to work on in a sprint. 

• The backburner represents open user stories that haven’t been prioritized by your team. 

• Drag the user story that you just created from the backburner to the backlog.

• Open a new panel by clicking the Add Panel link in the top left corner. 

• Select By Sprint.

•  Enter the name of the sprint that you created in a prior step. A panel opens that contains only work records for that sprint