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Story Work Item, % Work Completed, and Time Spent


Kelvin Ho (212) | asked Jan 25 '08, 12:55 a.m.
I have followed the instructions in the link below to add the story work item successfully.

https://jazz.net/downloads/betas/data/0.6Beta2a/jazz-news-0.6Beta2-part2.html

I saw some mentioning about time spent. Will I be able to try it in Beta 2? If so, how?

The progress bar for the Iteration Plan and Story Work Item currently seem to show a percentage based on the number of closed work item and the number of open work items without considering the actual time estimate of each work item.

For example, if I have 3 work items in my Iteration Plan with estimates of 1 day, 4 days and 5 days respectively. If I have closed the 1 day work item, the progress bar will show 33% completed, but I would expect to see 10% completed instead.

Ideally, I would love to see the following.
There are two additional fields in the Work Item called "% Work Completed" and "Time Spent". For the same scenario above, assume the following:
- I have completed the 1-day work item in 1 day
- I have spent 2 days working on the 4-day work item, but have finished 75% of the work (so % Work Completed is 75)
- I haven't started the 5-day work item.
So I am ahead of schedule.

One progress bar for work completed shows (10%*1day + 75%*4days)/10days = 40%, and another progress bar for time spent shows (1 day + 2 days)/10 days = 30%.

If the two bars are equal in length, then I am on schedule.
If the work completed bar is longer than the time spent bar, then I am ahead of schedule.
If the work completed bar is shorter than the time spent bar, then I am behind schedule.

Kelvin

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Tobias Widmer (3211) | answered Jan 25 '08, 4:48 a.m.
kho schrieb:
I have followed the instructions in the link below to add the story
work item successfully.

https://jazz.net/downloads/betas/data/0.6Beta2a/jazz-news-0.6Beta2-part2.html

I saw some mentioning about time spent. Will I be able to try it in
Beta 2? If so, how?

The progress bar for the Iteration Plan and Story Work Item currently
seem to show a percentage based on the number of closed work item and
the number of open work items without considering the actual time
estimate of each work item.

For example, if I have 3 work items in my Iteration Plan with
estimates of 1 day, 4 days and 5 days respectively. If I have closed
the 1 day work item, the progress bar will show 33% completed, but I
would expect to see 10% completed instead.

Ideally, I would love to see the following.
There are two additional fields in the Work Item called "% Work
Completed" and "Time Spent". For the same scenario
above, assume the following:
- I have completed the 1-day work item in 1 day
- I have spent 2 days working on the 4-day work item, but have
finished 75% of the work (so % Work Completed is 75)
- I haven't started the 5-day work item.
So I am ahead of schedule.

One progress bar for work completed shows (10%*1day +
75%*4days)/10days = 40%, and another progress bar for time spent
shows (1 day + 2 days)/10 days = 30%.

If the two bars are equal in length, then I am on schedule.
If the work completed bar is longer than the time spent bar, then I am
ahead of schedule.
If the work completed bar is shorter than the time spent bar, then I
am behind schedule.

Kelvin


Hi Kelvin

Full support for the time spent attribute on work items will be
available in M5D1.

Regarding progress display: Please file an enhancement request against
Agile Planning.

Cheers,

Tobias
Jazz Collaboration, Coverage, Agile Planning

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Dirk Baeumer (4811) | answered Jan 25 '08, 6:58 a.m.
JAZZ DEVELOPER
Hi Kelvin,

beta2 doesn't contain support for time spent fields. It got added for M5D1.

We are currently in the process of revisiting the use of progress bars
in agile planning. Where it makes sense we replace open/close based bars
with estimate bars (for example the team load section and the my work
view uses estimate based bars). The progress bar in the story work item
is definitely a candidate.

Dirk
Agile Planning Component.

kho wrote:
I have followed the instructions in the link below to add the story
work item successfully.

https://jazz.net/downloads/betas/data/0.6Beta2a/jazz-news-0.6Beta2-part2.html

I saw some mentioning about time spent. Will I be able to try it in
Beta 2? If so, how?

The progress bar for the Iteration Plan and Story Work Item currently
seem to show a percentage based on the number of closed work item and
the number of open work items without considering the actual time
estimate of each work item.

For example, if I have 3 work items in my Iteration Plan with
estimates of 1 day, 4 days and 5 days respectively. If I have closed
the 1 day work item, the progress bar will show 33% completed, but I
would expect to see 10% completed instead.

Ideally, I would love to see the following.
There are two additional fields in the Work Item called "% Work
Completed" and "Time Spent". For the same scenario
above, assume the following:
- I have completed the 1-day work item in 1 day
- I have spent 2 days working on the 4-day work item, but have
finished 75% of the work (so % Work Completed is 75)
- I haven't started the 5-day work item.
So I am ahead of schedule.

One progress bar for work completed shows (10%*1day +
75%*4days)/10days = 40%, and another progress bar for time spent
shows (1 day + 2 days)/10 days = 30%.

If the two bars are equal in length, then I am on schedule.
If the work completed bar is longer than the time spent bar, then I am
ahead of schedule.
If the work completed bar is shorter than the time spent bar, then I
am behind schedule.

Kelvin

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