LF: Documentation on calculation of progress
I am looking for some documentation on how progress for work items is calculated? Specifically, I am looking to find out how "stop working" affects the calculation of effort/progress marked against a work item. In essence, I want to know if I can put a work item on hold and not record effort against it.
Jeff |
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As, I aware of in RTC 1.0.1.1, estimated time is calculated using three values in a work item:
If the Estimate is the only available value, then that value is used. If a Correction value is available, then that value is used. If a Time Spent value is available and the work item has not been resolved, then that value is subtracted from the estimate or corrected estimate. If the Time Spent value is available and the work item has been resolved, then that value is used. If this didn't help, let me know,... Amirsam Khataei IBM RTC Support Engineer |
If a Time Spent value is available and the work item has not been resolved, then that value is subtracted from the estimate or corrected estimate. What I am curious about is how "time spent" is calculated. It seems to only start counting once a work item has been set to "start working". Does the "time spent" suspend when the work item is set to "stop working"? This is the type of information that I am looking for information on. Thanks, Jeff |
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As far as I know all those calculations are not affected by the state of the workitem, so the "start working" and "stop working" actions just set the state of the work item to "In Progress" or back to "new" but do not have an influence on the progress calculations.
I know, that RTC does not "measure time". A developer has to estimate and to set the actual time spend. The system does not measure those times by tracking "start working" and "stop working" actions. I need to double check this, but as far as I know, the product works this way... Amirsam Khataei IBM RTC Support Engineer |
Geoffrey Clemm (30.1k●3●30●35)
| answered May 14 '09, 5:18 p.m.
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That is correct ... RTC does not try to measure the clock time that
elapses while a work item is "open". First, it is usually very inaccurate (you often are doing lots of other things while a work item is open ... including having a different work item open in another workspace), and also it would be intrusive (and in some countries, illegal). Cheers, Geoff akhataei wrote: As far as I know all those calculations are not affected by the state |
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