Dependency warning explaination

[Goettert_ Michael]

Hi community,

just started using advanced roadmaps some days ago (switched from MS Projects).

Why does Jira shows me a dependency warning if i connect two items via "see also" or "has to be finished together with".

I expect "see also" is just a kind of information about a link.

I switched to "has to be finished together with" (my original desired link)... this displays in my point of view, that two linked items should be finished together on same day... so so end dates have to match and everything should be fine / on track.

why do I recieve warnings? :( 

thanks in advance for support

Regards

Michael

[Walter Buggenhout]

Hi @Goettert_ Michael and welcome to the Community!

It is important to keep in mind that Plans in Jira are not Gantt charts. They are a visual roadmap, primarily designed for use in agile environments and they lack capabilities that traditional gantt offers.

Having said that: there is a setting in your plan settings that determines the behaviour of your dependencies. They are treated either as sequential or concurrent as you can see here:

You can determine how the tool will handle overlapping dates by this. But, as you can see, it is an overall setting across all dependency types. It does not consider different definitions.

You can to some extent control scheduling behaviour for different types of dependencies in Plans admin settings. However, these only allow you to specify the sequence of the dependency - concurrency is not an option there either:

Hope this clarifies!

[Goettert_ Michael]

Hi Walter,

thanks for quick response and explaination!

Regarding the option concurrent / sequenzial I already set this to concurrent.

And you're right - this roadmap feature is not a 1:1 gantt tool. 

I just want to understand why the dependencies i menitoned are on warning in order to fix it in any way.

Currently I can't get it why those links are stating this behaviour. maybe it has 2do with the lead time?

Could you provide me infos to understand it more better or a link?

[Walter Buggenhout]

It will become easier to see if you change the visualisation of dependencies on the timeline view from badges to lines. It will probably display an end-to-start relationship while - from the description of your dependency type - I guess you are trying to make it interpret as an end-to-end dependency. That is one of the things I was referring to when I said Plans is not a gantt tool.

You probably have an overlap of +/- a month where plans is interpreting this as a delay. Either try not to model dependencies of this type, but just use due dates in your plan to indicate when work must be completed. Or just leave it there and consider it as just a warning that you might be at risk there.

[Goettert_ Michael]

thanks for your feedback!

regarding... "It will become easier to see if you change the visualisation of dependencies on the timeline view from badges to lines."

we're working with the datacenter edition - is it possible to change from badges to lines there? how?

asked my admin and he told me this is only possible on the cloud edition :) 

[Walter Buggenhout]

My bad, @Goettert_ Michael. I had not paid attention to the fact that you indeed labeled your question as Data Center related. Your admin is most likely right on that aspect.