After task decomposition, all team members can claim tasks and start to develop. In addition to coding, they should also take some time to update the task status and the time cost.

1. Claim tasks

According to Scrum, it is the best scenario that everyone can claim the tasks they like to do, as it will boost the morale of the teams to a larger extent. Some people might ask what if nobody claims the tasks or only easy tasks are claimed? What if a green hand claims a key task, or the tasks claimed are not balanced among members? In fact, these are NOT problems. Since all the information is open and transparent in ZenTao, you cannot always claim easy and simple tasks. Meanwhile, project managers should manage and balance at a macro level, especially for some key tasks which have to be assigned with consideration.

Go to Project->Task and select the task you want to claim. There are two ways to claim tasks. One is to Assign tasks and the other one is to Edit.

2. Update task status

When the tasks are started, everyone should update the task status daily. ZenTao has shortcut action buttons for you to do it.

The meaning of Start, Finish and Cancel are self-explained. Let's look at Close and Activate.

In ZenTao, there is an optional workflow. Once a task is finished, it will be automatically assigned to the one who created it for acceptance verification. If acceptance is done, the task will be Closed. If not, it will be activated. This workflow optional rather than required. It is for teams adopting the traditional management. For of Agile teams, the workflow can be skipped.

3. Update effort/man-hour

Team members should also update the man-hour cost every day.

Click Effort and you will see the popout to add it.

• Cost is the man-hours that have been consumed in doing the task.
• Left is the hours that are needed to complete remaining work. If the estimation is zero, it means the task is done. Please note that initial estimation ≠ man-hour cost + man-hour left.
• All team members should update their task status daily since the Burndown chart is made based on the man-hour left.