Getting a realistic end date to a project based on number of devs.

[david williams]

Hi,

Hopefully, this isn't something obvious, but I've been looking around and can't find the answer.  I'm also fairly new to Jira.

As someone who always works on projects with fixed end dates, I always need to know if my backlog is going to fit into the time available.  So far it seems that Jira only gives time estimates and burndowns for Sprints, and not entire projects.

I have found that if I put my entire backlog into a version, the version report will give a rough total of when it thinks the project will end based on all the time estimates (I'm using days). 

But.  If I have Programmer 1 with 5  1-day tasks and Artist 1 with 5 1-day tasks.  It says the project will finish in 10 days.  Not 5 days.

Am I missing something obvious?

I know jira is based on Agile, but it seems odd to me that so many people are using it without knowing when their project will finish.

Thanks for your help

[Krisztian Kovacs]

Hi @david williams

seems like you need either the Big Picture or Portfolio add-ons. They both deal with resource management.

I hope this helps. Jira doesn't deal with resource management by default.

[david williams]

Thanks.  Big Picture seems to be able to do more or less what I'm after.

Cheers.