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question associated with jira project management - 'big picture'

in the overview of projects you can find a project has 7% of tasks done, however, when you change to grant, you find it's 53%, so confused

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Hi @Yingyi ,

Big picture has a lot of configuration that you can control and some that you can't. The documentation is extensive :-D

In Jira the statuses are of three categorys: Grey = Todo, Blue = in progress, Green = Done (not a big picture config, this is base Jira)

Your 53 % progress in Big picture is a representation based on the status categories. 53% of the scope is in a status category Done (= green).

Generally the green status should signal "nothing left to do". Done, complete, closed etc. When you build up a workflow and create statuses you also need to decide the category of the status and the order of the statuses. If you have a green status in "the middle" of a workflow and a step out of if to a blue again it will have an effect on the roll up of status. Is perhaps the action to "grant" as status change?

I am interested in the figure 7 in your columns. Is that a calculated value? Based on what conditions?

Lisa

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Hi Lisa,

so you mean for the jira tasks, the overview count on the color rather than the status I put to done? I mean, I change the color to yellow, but I put the jira status to done, it won't be count as done?

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Hi,

there is no yellow only green-blue-grey ;-) but yes, in theory you can assign the DONE status to a grey or blue colour, ie a different category Giving your statuses a color is managed globally for the whole site. A status can only have one color.

if you don't agree that 53% is done then I recommend you to look att the underlying workflow. if you have a lot of green statuses signalling work not being complete, either liaise and agree with all other users using the status to change the colour (ie category) of the status OR change your workflow to use other statuses that fits your way of working.

Lisa