Display work item (story) estimated time by children

Hi,

you can open the the story in the work item editor, where you find a
progress indication which is calculated using the children estimates.
The numerical values can be found on the lower left side of the progress
bar, indicated by "Progress: xx/yy h", where yy is the total estimated
work time and xx indicates the work time spent.
This works both, in the Web UI as well as the Rich UI.

Cheers,
MikeS

alon24 wrote:

We define a story work item and define children for it.

The story does not have an estimated time amount, all its children do
have (1d, 2d etc...)

When we do a query on the story work items we would like to see the
estimated time for each story, based on the amount of time the
children take.

How can I do this???
When in the "Work Items" view, in the estimated time, it
does not display the total amount of time, we need to drill down on
the children to see each, and do our own calculations.

My question is both for web, and standalone client

--
MikeS
Jazz Agile Planning team

Is there any way of showing this information in a query ?

I have a query which returns a number of stories - and I would like a high level indicator of the progress in each.

These stories may well be in different timelines and / or iterations, so none of the "plan" views gives me what I need.

MartinBailey wrote:

Is there any way of showing this information in a query ?

I have a query which returns a number of stories - and I would like a
high level indicator of the progress in each.

These stories may well be in different timelines and / or iterations,
so none of the "plan" views gives me what I need.

No, this is currently not possible. Pls submit an enhancement request.

--
MikeS
Jazz Agile Planning team

Enhancement 89402 raised.

Do you think there is another way to see what I want ?

I have an epic which has several child stories. These stories are all assigned to different teams and planned for iterations in those separate teams' timelines.

I want to be able to see a view which lists all the child stories with a progress bar on each (so that I know who to go and kick without having to hunt through to find them all).

Something like this;

Deliver really big enhancement (EPIC) 50%
|-- Build a database (STORY) 30%
|-- Build the business logic (STORY) 85%
|-- Build a GUI (STORY) 70%

I don't mind what form this view takes (plan / query / whatever) but I'm a bit stumped as to how to achieve it.

If I could drill down inside each story to see the progress of the child tasks of each story - that would be the icing on the cake ;-)

On 8/6/2009 12:23 PM, MartinBailey wrote:

Enhancement 89402 raised.

Do you think there is another way to see what I want ?

I have an epic which has several child stories. These stories are all
assigned to different teams and planned for iterations in those
separate teams' timelines.

I want to be able to see a view which lists all the child stories with
a progress bar on each (so that I know who to go and kick without
having to hunt through to find them all).

Something like this;

Deliver really big enhancement (EPIC) 50%
|-- Build a database (STORY) 30%
|-- Build the business logic (STORY) 85%
|-- Build a GUI (STORY) 70%

I don't mind what form this view takes (plan / query / whatever) but
I'm a bit stumped as to how to achieve it.

If I could drill down inside each story to see the progress of the
child tasks of each story - that would be the icing on the cake ;-)

Hi Martin,

It sounds like what you're looking for might be accomplished with a
report. In 2.0 we introduced the ability to report across item links,
such as parent-child work item links. We shipped a sample report called
"Story Child Work Items" which shows a list of all child work items for
a given story.

So the view you're looking for doesn't exist as a report today but you
could write it with the BIRT report design tools.

Here are some resources to help if you're interested:

Writing a report:
https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/ReportsCreatingANewReport20

Reports Central, which has an example report that reports across item
links: https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/ReportsCentral

We also have a number of videos that help with report authoring,
including one that demonstrates how to build a report across item links.
Go to http://jazz.net/library/#type=video and then filter by "report".

Hope this helps.

james
RTC Reports Team Lead

I was trying to avoid a report as constructing these looks pretty painful (compared with building a query say). Also - there doesn't seem to be any way of changing the display options on a report post-construction.

I can't see the "story child work items" report - where should I be looking ?