Vizydrop custom forecast

Brief summary of this article:

• Forecast Line based on Effort To Do
• Forecast Line based on Velocity

You can forecast the team completion date of all the Sprint's work using new VELOCITY_FORECAST calculations in Burn Down/Up charts!

Forecast Line based on Effort To Do 

To perform this, you first need to add a new Annotation Line to the Effort To Do and include a start point, a goal value and a velocity per day,

e.g.:

VELOCITY_FORECAST(FIRST([Effort To Do]), 0, 10)

 Where,

1. start point: FIRST/LAST aggregation that specifies a point on the chart to start forecast from.
2. goal value: Aggregation or number which set end of forecast.
3. velocity per day: A number greater than 0 which shows daily velocity.

Knowing your team's average daily velocity, you can even draw Optimistic and Pessimistic Forecasts on the chart.

We have added the ability to include a Forecast Line based on Velocity. It helps your team to understand when a particular amount of work will be done.

VELOCITY_FORECAST(start point, goal value, velocity per day)

You can also have a look at this document for knowing about Velocity Forecast. https://plan.tpondemand.com/vizydrop/api/v1/docs/annotations/velocity_forecast/

For example, if you have a Burn Up chart over your current Team Iteration, making a forecast based on Team Velocity requires an annotation like this:

VELOCITY_FORECAST( LAST([Effort Completed]), LAST([Effort To Do]), 5 )

Where:

• LAST([Effort Completed]) - point which annotation should start from
• LAST([Effort To Do]) - goal value to be achieved in the forecast
• 5 - average daily team velocity

You can also add a forecast based on MIN and MAX Velocity in the same way.