Background
There are two different time planning levels within ictime:
- Work estimates on task/sub-task level (this functionality is already provided by JIRA and ictimeuses the dataenhances this option by providing a central planning sheet).
- Planning/estimates on component and project level.
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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 budget planning at this stage, but just time-planning. |
Planning Approach
When you plan your project, especially in the beginning, you might only have a very high-level planning (e.g. time budgets on project or component level), and with the time, you can go more into details (tasks, sub-tasks). So you need to start planning with very rough numbers, but of course with the time, you want to benefit from being able to plan more in detail.
It also might happen that some people in general prefer to plan top-down and others want to plan bottom-up:
- top-down planning, where planning only takes place for project and maybe component,
- bottom-up planning, where plan figures for a project or component only arise from the plan figures for tasks and sub-tasks.
In fact both approaches have serious disadvantages. The first does not allow for control on lower levels, the second leads to a situation where the planning only gets complete towards the end of the project, because you usually can't pre-define all tasks and sub-tasks in the beginning of a project.
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- This is extra functionality provided by ictime.
Apart from having two different places to enter time budget planning information, there is also a specific approach for being able to manage rough time budget plans and detailing planning at the same time. This is explained in detail in the following chapters.
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