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Please note that planning in ictime is always time-based. Even though you can assign a cost/price to you work for time you log, we do not offer financial budget planning at this stage, but just time-planning. Planning is also not related to resource-allocation, so you are not planning who is going to do what, but just which time budgets you expect on the level of project, component and issues. These plan values will then be compared with the time logged in the Plan/Actual interface (see Plan/Actual Comparison). |
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Accessing
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Plan/Actual Comparison
You can either access the plan/actual sheet via the JIRA project tab or via the ictime navigation.
Plan/Actual Comparison via ictime Navigation
When accessing via the ictime navigation, you have to choose a project first when entering the plan/actual comparison.
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Choose a project and click on the "Show" button.
Plan/Actual Comparisonvia JIRA Project Tab
Choose a project via the JIRA project tab and select the navigation tab "Plan/Actual":
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If you once have entered the plan/actual comparison sheet this way, you can change the project in JIRA and will directly go to the plan/actual comparison sheet for the respective project.
Basic Structure of the Plan/Actual Comparison
The plan/actual comparison sheet consists of the filter bar, the project section and components.
Filter
The filter bar helps you to restrict the display to a project (only if called via ictime navigation), component, version or user (coming soon - currently, only component is available).
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Whatever filter you apply, the plan/actual comparison values on project and component level will not consider this filter. Reason is that plan values might be generic, and it does not make sense to compare a generic plan value that has been set for a whole project or a whole component with real values that are filtered and only include some components or some issues etc. Idea of the filter is basically restricting the issues displayed to a dimension you are interested in. |
Plan/Actual Comparison for Project
This is the highest plan/actual comparison level.
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| Plan | Plan value on project level. | either generic or as result of all plan values of all components |
| Actual (Logged) | Time logged on all issues of the project. | |
| Remaining | Sum of all remaining estimates for all issues of the project. | |
| Difference | Plan minus time logged. | due to JIRA options for handling of remaining estimate this value is not necessarily the same like "Remaining" |
| Quality | A quality factor for the overall project planning. The indicator is calculated based on the quality factor of all components. | The quality factor can only be calculated if there is at least one issue that
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Plan/Actual Comparison for Components
This is the second plan/actual comparison level. If you did not define components for your project in JIRA, ictime will automatically display a component "Without Component".
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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).
Plan/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. Issues will only be loaded in this moment, and we will store in your session that you have opened this component. This setting will be kept, even if you navigate through JIRA or ictime.
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