Add ability to edit health status in Issue sidebar

Problem to solve

As a User of Epics and Issues,

I need to be able to understand the current health status of work I am following,

So I can respond to delays, problems, and reassign the proper resources.

Review gitlab-com/Product#593 (closed) for internal use case and context.

Intended users

Solution

⭐ A. Future scope, complete MVC
  • User can add or remove "Health status" from the sidebar, within a dropdown.
  • Once applied, the Health status appears a badge that is consistent with the badges in the epic tree.
  • For MVC, the badge doesn't navigate the user anywhere (eventually it may go to a filtered list of issues).
  • On hover, the badge triggers a tooltip that explain what the health status means, ie "This attention is on track. On track issues -insert description of on track here-."
⭐ :B. MVC
  • User can add or remove "Health status" from the sidebar, within a dropdown.
  • Once applied, the Health status appears as text within the dropdown.
  • For MVC, the badge doesn't navigate the user anywhere (eventually it may go to a filtered list of issues).
  • On hover, the badge triggers a tooltip that explain what the health status means.
  • On hover, the badge triggers a tooltip that explain what the health status means, ie "This attention is on track. On track issues -insert description of on track here-."
⭐ :C. First iteration toward MVC
  • User can add "Health status" from the sidebar, within a dropdown.
  • User can remove Health status from the sidebar via the -remove status pattern next to the dropdown input.
  • Once applied, the Health status appears as text within the dropdown.
  • For MVC, the badge doesn't navigate the user anywhere (eventually it may go to a filtered list of issues).

Further details

Health Status = Traditionally represented in other tools in the market as Green/Yellow/Red

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Risk Management Plugin for JIRA

Necessary Usage Data

To track adoption and success we need to be able to view the # of issues with a health status in a Periscope view. Moved this to a followup issue

Future Iteration Considerations

Risk Status Automation

  • We should investigate any opportunity to enable automated risk statuses leveraging data in GitLab like assigned milestone dates, weight completed, time tracking, etc
  • Possibly provide the ability to set custom rules for automating transitions into each risk stage

High Level Risk Reporting

  • We should investigate the best way to surface/report risk at a Project and Group level, aggregating risk status from multiple epics and presenting it in a single view.

Questions asked during Problem Validation:

  • How are users currently tracking Health Status of work?
    • Via comments or updates to description
  • What are the pros/cons of those approaches^?
    • Major cons are the inability to quantify health up a chain of hierarchy or view it anywhere else in the tool
  • How do users expect to view and analyze Health Status over many issues and epics?
    • General consensus is at the Epic Level they'd like to see an aggregate health metric and see each issue's health displayed within the Epic Tree view
Edited by Alexis Ginsberg