Work progress projections

I'm currently trying to understand how are computed load and progress bars. I have created some work items and I have done many changes on the evaluated time/time spent fields/iteration plan date range.../quote]

Hi Frederic

I found the following article on iteration planning extremely useful when I wanted to understand a little more about the progress bars, etc:

https://jazz.net/learn/LearnItem.jsp?href=content/docs/iteration-planning/index.html

That might answer some of your questions, and I am sure someone will also try and answer your specific questions

regards

anthony

Yes, I have already read this article.
But my questions are about projection calculation and how to "control"it (get details on how an iteration plan is computed, reinitialize it ...)

ist-support wrote:

I'm currently trying to understand how are computed load and progress
bars. I have created some work items and I have done many changes on
the evaluated time/time spent fields/iteration plan date range...
Now the iteration plan indicates a strange ratio...
Here are my questions :
- How can I get the details on how the projection is calculated ?

I also recommend reading
https://jazz.net/learn/LearnItem.jsp?href=content/docs/iteration-planning-bars/index.html.
It outlines more details about load and progress computation.

- Is the projection evaluation local to an iteration plan or also
attached to users and teams ?

Both. For progress and load you always need to know what the remaining
work time and what the remaining work is. The remaining work time is
computed based on users of a team (a plan is always configured for a
team) and their work environment settings. The remaining work is the sum
of all work items assigned to the team and targeted for the iteration.

- Is there a projection by user and does it have an impact on other
iteration plans ?

The Group by Owner mode of the iteration plan shows per owner a load or
progress bar (select your preferred mode in the sidebar).

- How can I "reinitialize" the projection ratio for an
iteration plan / for a user / for a team ? (because I have worked on
a real iteration plan and now I want to rebuild a clean iteration
plan)

The notion of a 'clean' iteration plan is somewhat difficult. You have
to understand an iteration plan more or less as a work item query. Plans
are always scoped to an iterations and a team. Hence, the plan contains
all work items which match those properties. Plans are live and because
of that a 'clean' plan can only be achieved in case there are no work
items. Load and progress for plans simply take all work items that have
been selected for the plan into account. So, the concept of
reinitializing progress/load can only be achieved by modifying the
respective work items. For instance, plan them for a different iteration
and they are gone (not shown on the plan, not considered for
progress/load computation).


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Cheers, Johannes
Agile Planning Team