All my stories are already estimated using the original / remaining estimate fields in jira and I was hoping that, when I create a plan, Roadmaps would use the estimates to automatically create a timeline?
Is that possible?
Hi @Anisha Gallagher ,
Could I just confirm if you're using Roadmaps or Advanced Roadmaps?
There is an auto-schedule capability in Advanced Roadmaps that will assign dates, sprints, releases and teams to your issues based on the estimates that you've provided. But this capability does not exist in Roadmaps.
Advanced Roadmaps is a premium feature that you access from the "Plans" menu in the top navigation bar. Roadmaps are available from the left sidebar of your project,
Regards,
Dave
Hi @Dave ,
Thank you for your reply, apologies for being so vague!
I'm using Advanced Roadmaps and I have tried using the Auto Schedule option you mention but it doesn't seem to use the issue estimates.
For example a particular issue that is estimated at 8 hours has been auto scheduled with target start / end dates that give it a planned time frame of 22 days. I'm unsure how it's calculated those start / end dates but it seems unrelated to the issue estimate?
Thanks,
Anisha
Have you had the chance to read through the documentation on this at all yet? It will probably provide a better guide to how it works than an answer I write up myself - please have a read through here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/advancedroadmapscloud/auto-scheduling-issues-998651231.html
However, in general the key things you want to check are that you're setting the correct estimate field (if you're doing this on the issue details, rather than in the plan) and that you have your plan configured to use the right estimation type (i.e. make sure if you're using time-based estimation on the issues that the plan isn't set up to use story point estimation).
You also want to check the teams in your plan, the velocity that you've assigned to them and the number of members in the team (as this can have an impact on the schedule - it's assumed that only one member of a team will work on one issue at a time for example).
Hi @Dave
Thank you for the documentation, I had read it already and unfortunately it doesn't help resolve my issue. I can confirm that my plan is configured to use time based estimates but I am currently unclear how this is meant to pull through to my Gantt chart?
I'll try to explain what it is I'm trying to achieve and what issue I'm facing:
I have created a project based plan containing a number of epics, each with child tickets within. The child tickets are individually estimated using 'Original Estimate' and 'Remaining Estimate' time tracking fields.
My Advanced Roadmaps plan pulls through the correct epics and hierarchy, it also pulls through the correct estimate figures in the Estimates (d) / Estimates (h) field.
The problem I face is that the estimates are not reflected in the Gantt itself. For example:
I do not understand how to integrate estimates within my Gantt chart without doing it all manually? It might be worth noting that I am not using next-gen projects.
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