Purpose

Remaining Estimate by week shows time remained to complete planned work.

How metric helps

Remaining Estimate by week helps to understand tendency in remaining work. If the trend is growing, this means new requirements are added on the fly (can be an alert) or estimates are added along the way. In general, this chart can approximately show how many week are required to burn the remaining estimate down to 0

How metric works

Chart overview

This chart shows, week by week, the total amount of the “Remaining Estimate” in the selected scope of work.

Usually it's expected the amount of Remaining Efforts to go down over time, i.e. the remaining work gets burned down, so a project is getting closer to its release.

Example #1 below

See below - the picture shows remaining efforts nearly on the same level over time. This means the work doesn't get burned.

Example #2 below

See below - the picture shows bumping up efforts, which might mean, for example, more work had been added, or team started setting their estimations. So again, the work doesn't get burned but growing instead.

On hover over a column a hint appears with the following info:

Time period by weeks
Metric value by hours

By clicking on a column a pop up appears with the following information got from the task tracking system:

Issue ID
Type
Priority
Summary

Calculation

Remaining Estimate by Weeks = ∑REH of all items,

where

REH is Remaining Estimated Hours.

Calculation notes

1 Calculation considers items within the last 10 weeks including an incomplete week.

2 Week start date is Sunday, end date is Saturday.

Data Source

Data for the metric can be collected from a task tracking system (Jira, TFS/VSTS, Rally, etc.)