How is JIRA Plans determining if a Release is "On Track" or "Off Track" and by how much?

[Renee Houston-Lang]

I'm just starting to explore using JIRA Plans and pulling in Releases.  I notice each release has a "Status"; values appear to be "On Track" or "Off Track."  If "Off Track" will tell you by how many days.  Also, I notice the Release Date when in this state has a (+X days) value beside it.  I have attached a screen capture to share an example.  I'm not sure what data is being used to determine this and hoping someone can share insight.

[Dave Rosenlund _Trundl_ · Accepted solution]

Welcome to the community, @Renee Houston-Lang  👋

Releases that contain issues scheduled by sprint dates will show as off-track if the sprint ends after the release date. In other words, your project must contain Jira issues that will not be completed in time for the planned release date.

You can read more (and related info.) in:

Track releases in your plan

...if you wish.

Hope this helps,

-dave

[Renee Houston-Lang]

Thanks @Dave Rosenlund _Trundl_ ; this does help.  Do you have any insight on the +20 days in this example? Is that saying I have a JIRA issue which is scheduled to end 20 days after the specified release date?

[Dave Rosenlund _Trundl_]

The simple answer is, yes. However, a site administrator or project administrator can customize settings that might be relevant here.

Since you are a site administrator, I assume you'd be aware of any customer settings that might have a bearing on this question. 😉

[Renee Houston-Lang]

Thanks Dave; I did not set up the JIRA instance and just recently joined and got added as an Admin. So I'll just need to dig around in the settings.

[Drew Nedderman]

@Dave Rosenlund _Trundl_ , this is very helpful. I would think that if the tickets in the release are Done, then the warning would be dismissed since the release is no longer at risk. Do you know if this case is being considered?

[Dave Rosenlund _Trundl_]

Hi, @Drew Nedderman.  Unfortunately, Atlassian Community Champions do not have access to Atlassian’s product roadmaps 😕  We’re just customers or partners, like you, who volunteer some of our time to help our peers in the Atlassian ecosystem.

Suggestion You might want to check the Jira “Bugs and Suggestions” system to see if there’s anything along these lines in the system and/or create one of your own.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-89817?jql=text%20~%20%22%E2%80%9COff%20Track%E2%80%9D%22

 If you find an existing ticket, you can add yourself as a watcher.

Hope this helps,

-dave