Plan is not distributing the hours well

Szymon Turczynowicz

Hello All,

I set up View - "Sprint capacity management" and added Target Start (17/Jan/2022) and Target (11/Feb/2022). Time estimated for 15 hours.

Task time is 4 full weeks but it is not distributing the 15 hours throughout the 4 weeks but rather that puts all the time in the first week:


Do you have any idea what am I doing wrong? Do you need more information about my Plan?

Best regards,
Szymon

Curt Holley

I can only imagine that, the previous 2 weeks have passed (so the work can't be done then) and the estimated 15 hours fits into the capacity of the week of 30/Jan....so why not do it then?

I only know the cloud version, but again, I believe it will schedule the work at the earliest opportunity (which is what has happened) and even if Benja had 160 hours work loaded for the 4 week period, AR would still try and schedule the 40 task in one block/sprint.

This is a fairly standard Scrum philosophy, anything started, should be finished within the same sprint. That is why they recommend breaking the work down into bite sized (with an iteration/sprint) chunks. Consequently, i doubt Atlassian would build the logic into any capacity planning to spread the work out over the longest period (especially over multiple sprints).

In other words, I believe it is behaving is it should.

Why a timeline of 4 weeks to do 15 hours work anyway? Asking on behave of the AR algorithm   ☮