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Viewing estimates in an Iteration Plan


Stephanie Walter (611) | asked Oct 27 '09, 5:25 p.m.
Is there a way to view the estimates associated with the work items for each story in an Iteration Plan? I want to see both estimates for tasks and the sum of these estimates for each story. Right now I can only see estimates for Enhancements and Defects. 'Story' is the only Top Level Plan Item Type.

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Johannes Rieken (1.2k1) | answered Oct 28 '09, 4:20 a.m.
swalt wrote:
Is there a way to view the estimates associated with the work items
for each story in an Iteration Plan? I want to see both estimates for
tasks and the sum of these estimates for each story. Right now I can
only see estimates for Enhancements and Defects. 'Story' is the only
Top Level Plan Item Type.


Right, top level types do not show estimates but complexity, e.g. story
point. Still, there a plan column called Progress. It will show progress
based on the children of a story, e.g 7/14h which means that 7 out of a
total of 14h of work are done.

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Cheers, Johannes
Agile Planning Team

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Stephanie Walter (611) | answered Oct 28 '09, 9:22 a.m.
swalt wrote:
Is there a way to view the estimates associated with the work items
for each story in an Iteration Plan? I want to see both estimates for
tasks and the sum of these estimates for each story. Right now I can
only see estimates for Enhancements and Defects. 'Story' is the only
Top Level Plan Item Type.


Right, top level types do not show estimates but complexity, e.g. story
point. Still, there a plan column called Progress. It will show progress
based on the children of a story, e.g 7/14h which means that 7 out of a
total of 14h of work are done.

--
Cheers, Johannes
Agile Planning Team

But why can't I see the estimates for tasks nested under the Stories? I need to provide a "report" of our top stories along with their estimates.

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Johannes Rieken (1.2k1) | answered Oct 29 '09, 4:25 a.m.
swalt wrote:

But why can't I see the estimates for tasks nested under the Stories?
I need to provide a "report" of our top stories along with
their estimates.

If you want to see the individual estimates of the nested tasks you can
add the corresponding column to the plan. I added a screen capture of
how to edit a view mode to show progress and estimates.

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Cheers, Johannes
Agile Planning Team

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