I find this view helpful for understanding the amount of work remaining for a particular release. http://goo.gl/VDKsB
JIRA urls are horrifying. On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Patrick Mueller <[email protected]> wrote: > I just noticed this on my JIRA dashboard: > > http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7047/6880535202_006c6e502d_o.jpg > > Bummer that these are transient images that I had to 'paste' to flickr. :-( > > And let me start off by saying I'm not concerned about the "redness" of the > graphic. It's not clear what it's even showing me. For instance, I'm in a > habit of closing issues, but not resolving them. So, I'm guessing the > created vs closed graph would look "less red". > > What I'm really wondering is if we're annotating our issues, or if we want > to, in such a way that we could do some potentially more meaningful graphs. > For instance, it would be interesting to see "issues created for version > x.y.z vs. issues closed for version x.y.z". But you actually just want to > see the differential of those values, in which case the lifetime of such a > chart for would look more "bell curve" shaped than "increasing monotonic". > Give you sort of an idea of how much work went on. Kinda. Maybe not. > Maybe how close we are to finishing a release? > > This would likely require diligence in annotating issues. Which I'll admit > is a quality I don't have. :-) > > Not out of the question we could do this during "planning" calls though. > > And then, in general, has anyone found any other JIRA dashboard widgets to > be useful? I currently have four lists of issues on the left hand side of > my dashboard: Watched Issues, Assigned to Me, Filtered results for a > "weinre" filter I created, Filtered results for a "opened by me" filter > (that I couldn't believe I had to create myself - nothing built-in for > this?). Between those 4, I typically can find anything I'm looking for, > fairly quickly. > > -- > Patrick Mueller > http://muellerware.org
