RTC Plan Items Estimates
Good Afternoon,
I've had a request from my client to look into the Formal Project Management template and how to add Estimates against "plan items" (Business Need in FPM) Estimate in Hours. In the OOTB version Plan items use the Work Process which is calculated from the Child Execution items "Estimate/Correction & Time spent"..
My Client would like to have an "Estimate" Hours against the Plan Item which integrates with the "Execution" estimates / calculations.
You can add one child item Task to populate the Estimate however then when the actual Tasks are added this needs to be amended? Initial Estimates are Not know.
Any ideas? I guess we could add a new attribute for "Business Need - Original Estimate" but this is independent of the Child items etc.
Thanks
Matt
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I have not tried this, but the parent child roll up in the agile templates is done for the attribute that is set as "complexity" attribute. The top top level plan item types does not have this (e.g. Epic). The lower level plan item types have that and it is used to estimate the complexity. The Plan display rolls it up over parent child in the same project area.
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Ralph,
Thank you for the suggestion:
I've started to look into this and added an attribute - "business Need Estimate" Type = Duration and set this as the Complexity. When it does the calculation for Work Progress:
Business Need Estimate = 1 Hour
Work Progress = 3600000Business Need Estimate (seems to do the calc based on Milliseconds ?)
How do I update the "complexity to run based on hours)
Matt
I don't think you can. My suggestion was integer for a reason. If you use that, you can input anything you want. So you can say 1 is an hour.
My last statement will only work on String attribute types. So maybe not try that.
Ralph missed that bit; I found an article in the RTC help which talked about adding in "Person Hours" and using Duration - so I thought from that instruction it would work.
I've changed my development project and that does what I expected now..
Do you know if the Work Progress (Complexify & Hrs progress) are available in JRS?
It is a simple type custom attribute and I would assume the value being available in JRS.
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Ralph Schoon
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER Jan 11 '19, 2:08 a.m.What is an FPM Template?
Matt Muller
Jan 11 '19, 2:41 a.m.Sorry Formal Project Management - The Traditional Planning one. Non agile