How managing Kanban team on Jira Align Program Board - Red/Orange due to 'Target completion'

Question

Hi,

Our PI consists of a combination of scrum and kanban teams.  When we are reviewing our Program Board and addressing red items on the board, it was because the 'target completion' was outside of PI.  Upon reading, this field is autocalculated.

Our Kanban teams want the ability to edit the target completion field and manually set vs system auto setting based on the teams JA 'throughput' settings.

How are your RTEs managing to this?  Are you using the overwrite option for the team's 'throughput' setting? What ways do you work around this so the board doesn't unnecessarily flag something red?

Joe · Answer

What is behind this auto calculation?   (NEED HELP)

* I have set up a test team under a test program with a throughput of 1.
* I have two features, each with 6 stories 
* I have 6 sync sprints per PI
* I have my 2 features prioritized
* I have my 12 stories prioritized* top 6 stories in feature 1
* bottom 6 stories in feature 2

* I would expect to have 1 story line up under each sprint based upon a throughput of 1?
* Target completion dates look good based upon priority for feature 1
* Why are target completion dates in lower priority stories in feature 2?

BELOW ARE FOR FEATURE 1

THESE ARE FOR FEATURE 2

STORY IDTARGET COMPLETION DATE110/27/23211/3/23311/10/23411/17/23511/24/23612/1/23710/27/23811/3/23911/10/231011/17/231111/24/231212/1/23

Allan Maxwell · Answer

I am able to set the Feature target complete date for a Kanban Team.  I am not able to specifically say when each Story under that Feature will complete.  That is auto-calculated. The red/orange on the Feature is an indication that your Kanban team is overcommitted on Stories which is a good thing to know.

If you feel like the Kanban Team is justified in overcommitting versus their calculated throughput, then you can override that value from the Team's grid.  See pic