TAIGA

USER GUIDE

Created by: Khalid Rabie - Agile Coach and Program Manager ~Kr
 VALUE

Creating a Collaborative space built to enhance the way

we are working together
 Less documents going back and forth through emails
 easy to pull information by any stakeholder
 No need to be dependent on a single point of contact
 Collective space with all information updated Real-Time
 Easy GUI to be used by all contacts with all parameters well
defined and clear to all stakeholders involved.

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 TAIGA
Walkthrough Manual

Current Platform Link https://taiga.bigdata.intraorange

Main Dashboard:

Shows all projects you’re part of (showing on the far right).

Columns Working on and Watching are designated to all projects either a Task you are directly
assigned to or another that you are watching only respectively.
List of Projects
Tasks your Help Button for
accountable for further details

Tasks you’re
watching for
updates

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 Project Team Click this button to
send an e-mail to the
whole team with a
Inside the Project dashboard (clicking on any project on the right):
click of a button
Project Control
Navigator

Timeline

Epics

Backlog

Kanban

Issues

WIKI

Team
Project Timeline
ADMIN

Project Timeline:

This space has all actions being taken on throughout the project and by whom for full access on
actions throughout all tasks (Epics, user stories, etc..)

Project Team:

This displays the whole team assigned to the project or that on-board. If you move the cursor
on any picture it will display the name of the stakeholder.

Project Navigator Control tabs:

This is where all the tabs of the project are located. Top down order of Tabs above (Timeline,
Epics, Backlog, Kanban, issues (issue log), WIKI, Team, ADMIN)

Through the Search option at the top of the column, you are able to search for any keywords in
any of the tabs.

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Epics:

Created by: Khalid Rabie - Agile Coach and Program Manager~ Kr

This is where the high level deliverables are listed with overall details (Progress, Assigned to,
status, etc...)

Every Epic is assigned a color that is used as a color code in the user stories and backlog section.
Inside each Epic you will find:

- Related User Stories with assignments and progress, etc..

- Attachments
- Comments
- Epic Owner
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User Stories Watching Section

or Add Watchers

Story Owner

Attachments Section

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Going inside a single user story as an example within this EPIC:

Created by: Khalid Rabie - Agile Coach and Program Manager~ Kr

Same details you will find inside (description, related tasks (instead of user stories), attachments and
comments) only difference is the User Story Format as per below:

Description Field

Story Owner/ role on

the project

What is the
requirement or need

The Done definition

(The acceptance
criteria)
Value of the format is to make sure it is broken down to a format that everyone can understand
(technical or none Technical) with clear value of the written user story.

The Backlog Tab:

Sprint Task board

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 This displays everything in this project not specific to a Sprint. You will see all the user stories within all
Epics and all sprints that were conducted and in progress.

On the Right of the page you will see the sprints within the project all listed and on the left are the
project user stories with designated colors in front of them indicating the Epic it belongs to.

User Story list with

color indicator
Inside the Sprint Task Board:

Sprint Lock Date/

duration

Status Columns

The Task Board shows the Kanban Board with status Columns for ONLY the user stories locked in the
sprint.

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Kanban Tab:

Created by: Khalid Rabie - Agile Coach and Program Manager~ Kr

This shows the Task board for ALL the user stories in the project (with indication colors to Epics as
discussed)

This shows all the tasks related to the Project.

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 Issue Tab:
Issue/ Risk Owner

Filters
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This is the Issue log with all issues with assigned severities to each issue. You can easily filter
from the options on the left with clear accountability and dates and statuses on the right.

WIKI TAB:

This tab is for referring to any bookmarks or hyperlinks or repositories as needed for the whole
project Team:

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TEAMS TAB:

This tab has all Team members and their roles

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ADMIN TAB:

This Tab is where all the editing of the layout, members, Attributes and even Reports extraction
happens

Extraction of Reports
(Epics, User Stories)

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You can always find more from the Help Tab button (shown on page 2) on the top left of the
page when accessing the platform.

End of Document
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