Strange behavior on Release Report

Question

I'm facing a strange behavior with the following Release Report:

Here is the scenario:

The Release has a start date of May/23 and a Planned Release Date of Sep/27. During this time, the Planned Work reached 576 Story Points. Until today, the team was able to resolve 433 story points with 143 story points remaining to be completed.

So, in this scenario, assuming the calculations from the documentation for the Predicted Release Dates, seems that we have the following:

433 story points completed in 76 working days (from May/23 until Sep/06), the average is 5.69 points/day. However, considering the 143 story points left and the avg of 5.69/day, we have 25 days to complete the remaining points.

But, here is the problem, the predictions of my graph show the following:

Predicted Release Date: 22/Sep/23
Predicted Release Date (Optimistic): 21/Sep/23
Predicted Release Date (Pessimistic): 25/Sep/23

This is where the things are strange. If I assume the 25 days to complete the remaining, it is far from completing till 25/Sep/23. It should be sometime around 06/Oct.

Am I missing something?

Douglas Henrique Braun · Answer

Hello Danut,

Thank you for sharing this app, however, this does not address the issue that I'm having. I need some help to understand what is causing the Release Report to set the Release End Date earlier than it should be.

Danut M _StonikByte_ · Answer

Hi @Douglas Henrique Braun,

Try instead the Release Burndown Burnup Chart gadget offered by our Great Gadgets app.

It is highly configurable and precise, can make forecast, supports any estimation type and allows you to include subtasks.

All you have to do is to create a filter that returns all the issues from your release and configure the gadget to use it. And you will have a nice release chart like this displayed on your dashboard.

This app offers many other gadgets that will make your project tracking job much easier, more efficient and effective.

Have a look over the articles from our blog to make a better idea about what you can track with this app and how. See How to track multi-team or scaled-agile projects (such as SAFe®) in Jira with Great Gadgets app, more specifically.

I hope this helps.

Thank you,

Danut Manda