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You can either access the planning plan/actual sheet via the JIRA project tab or via the ictime navigation.
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Plan/Actual Comparison via ictime Navigation
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When accessing via the ictime navigation, you have to choose a project first when entering the planning sheetplan/actual comparison.
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Choose a project and click on the "Show" button.
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Plan/Actual Comparisonvia JIRA Project Tab
Choose a project via the JIRA project tab and select the navigation tab "PlanningPlan/Actual":
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If you once have entered the planning sheet this way, you can change the project in JIRA and will directly go to the planning sheet for the respective project.
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Basic Structure of the
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Plan/Actual Comparison
The planning plan/actual comparison sheet consists of the filter bar, the project section and components.
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The filter bar helps you to restrict the planning sheet display to a project (only if called via ictime navigation), component or version (coming soon).
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The filter by component, version and user can be combined. It is basically useful if you want to plan on issue level and is intended to restrict the number of issues on your page and to allow you to focus for a specific component, version and/or user. |
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Plan/Actual Comparison for Project
This is the highest planning plan/actual comparison level.You can either enter a "generic" value here or you decide that the total plan value for the project will be taken from the plan value of all components.
Click "Update" if you have made changes.
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If you have already done a detailed planning on component level, you should always decide to use the sum of all component plan values as total project plan value. If you are in the very beginning of your planning, it might make more sense to set a "generic" value which in fact will be something like an "educated guess" about your project time budget. When you feel that your planning on lower levels is getting better, you will decide to switch. For details, refer to Planning Concept. |
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Plan/Actual Comparison for Components
This is the second planning level. Similar to the project level, you can either decide to set a "generic" value or to take the plan values from all issues of this component. plan/actual comparison level. If you did not define components for your project in JIRA, ictime will automatically display a component "Without Component".
Click "Update" if you have made changes.
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If you have already done a detailed planning on issue level, you should always decide to use the sum of all issue plan values as total component plan value. If you are in the very beginning of your planning on issue level, it might make more sense to set a "generic" value which in fact will be something like an "educated guess" about your component time budget. When you feel that your planning on issue level is getting better, you will decide to switch. For details, refer to Planning Concept. |
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When clicking on the component, you get access to all issues of the component and can see the plan/actual comparison on issue level (see next chapter).
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Plan
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/Actual Comparison for Issues
When clicking on a component, you get access to all issues of that component and can plan time on these issues. This way, you can plan time (make "work estimates") for all issues in one place.
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| Task | Task key (clickable, directs you to the issue screen), name, type and status | ||||
| Assignee | Assignee of this issue | ||||
| All available operations for this issue | |||||
| Estimate | Enter or modify plan Plan value ("work estimate") for this issue. Changes automatically apply the delta to the "remaining estimate" field. | Uses the respective JIRA field. If you have set this value when creating or editing the issue, it will of course be displayed here. If you change it here, it will also change in JIRA interfaces. | Update | Click when you have made changes | |
| Remaining Estimate | The remaining estimate. | Uses the respective JIRA field. If you have set or changed this value when creating or editing the issue or when logging work, the current value of course be displayed here. If you change the plan value here, this will always automatically modify the remaining estimate (with the delta of your plan change). |
Please note that - contrary to normal JIRA behaviour - in this interface, you can also plan time on issues that have already been closed. This is basically intended to allow for "ex-post" planning.
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