With Project Monitor- Delivery Tracking you have an indication of how your project is progressing effectively than planned! This gadget allows you to track the progress of the project towards the delivery date.
Depending on the velocity of the project you can get on an Elapsed information: compared to what I had commercially defined,am I in early or late? And how many days? With Project Monitor- Delivery Tracking, just a glance to know that.
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- estimate of work completed (ideal percentage of completed tasks)
- real work completed (real percentage of completed task over task in progress)
- estimated effort remaining (remaining of the estimated effort considering work completed)
- actual effort remaining (work remaining to complete the project)
Not only projects
Project Monitor- Delivery Tracking works not only with Projects and Sprints, but also with JIRA filters! In this way you can monitor the progress of activities selected by you.
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For each selected project the gadget shows, in days, the positive or negative skidding of real End Date compared to the Business End Date. The label with this number is green in case of an advance, red in case of a delay.
Start Date, End Date e Today
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Adding Project Monitor to your Dashboard: On your Dashboard just click on 
button and the “Add a Gadget” screen will appear. Make sure that all the gadgets are displayed, by clicking on “Load all gadgets”. When the gadget list is updated, search for Project Monitor and choose one or both gadgets:
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Configure Project Monitor – Delivery Tracking
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After adding a Project Monitor gadget to your Dashboard, a configuration screen allowing you to configure the plugin will appear directly on the Dashboard in the gadget itself. The configuration parameters differ based on the JIRA Agile (Boards) being installed in JIRA or not. |
Configure Project Monitor- Delivery Tracking in JIRA Server without JIRA Agile:
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- Project Start Date: insert the Business Start Date;
- Project End Date: insert the Business End Date;
- Use remaining estimate: if selected, the plugin will use the Remaining Estimate (the remaining amount of time currently anticipated to resolve the issues). Further information in the section: “Use Remaining Estimate” Checkbox;
- Refresh Interval: you can specify how often you would like the gadget to update.
Screenshot of Project Monitor- Delivery Tracking Configuration with Jira Agile not installed
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- Issue pool: choose one of the two options:
- Project: allows you to specify the project you would like to monitor;
a) Version: allows you to specify the version tracked in the selected versioned JIRA project; - Sprint: if you would like to monitor a Sprint, you must select;
a) Board: allows you to specify the Agile Board you would like to monitor;
b) Sprint Selection: allows you to specify the Sprint (belonging to the JIRA Agile Board) that you want to track in the gadget; - Filter: allows you to specify a JIRA Filter which returns issues that represent a business project;
- Project: allows you to specify the project you would like to monitor;
- Project Start Date: insert the Business Start Date;
- Project End Date: insert the Business End Date;
- Use remaining estimate: if selected, the plugin will use the Remaining Estimate (the remaining amount of time currently anticipated to resolve the issues).
- Refresh Interval: you can specify how often you would like the gadget to update.
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Screenshot of Project Monitor- Delivery Tracking Configuration with Jira Agile
“Use Remaining Estimate” Checkbox
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Glossary used in JIRA issues
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| Name | Description |
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| Original Estimate (blue) | The original estimate of the amount of time anticipated to resolve the issue. (This is indicated as Estimated when viewing an issue.) |
| Remaining Estimate (orange) | The remaining amount of time currently anticipated to resolve the issue. (This is indicated as Remaining when viewing an issue.) |
| Time Spent (green) | The amount of time logged working on the issue so far. (This is indicated as Logged when viewing an issue.) |
Glossary used in Project Monitor – Delivery Tracking
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| Time Spent from Estimated: | The value of the Time Spent from Estimated is an estimate of how long we have spent according with the estimated effort. |
| Estimated Time Remaining | The value of the Estimated Time Remaining in open issues may be different according to the user selection of “Use Remaining Estimate” checkbox in the gadget’s control panel. This value return the bar length. For closed issues, Estimated Time Remaining is always considered to be zero. |
| Actual Time Spent: | The value of Actual Time Spent is obtained by adding all the Time Spent (Logged), for both open and closed issues. It’ return a percentage. |
| Projected Time Remaining: | The Projected Time Remaining is an estimate of the residual time left until the actual end of the project, based on values of Time Spent from Estimated, Estimated Time Remaining and Actual Time Spent. |
| Business Start Date: | The Business Start Date is when the project is supposed to start. |
| Real Start Date: | The Real Start Date is the date of the first log (real start of the project). |
| Business End Date: | The Business End Date is when the project is supposed to finish (ex. final delivery). |
| Projected End Date: | The Projected End Date is a projection. It’s a date obtained by adding Projected Time Remaining to the current date. |
| Advance/Delay | Number of days of an advance or a delay of the project is the difference between Estimated End Date and Projected End Date.The gadget shows this difference in a colored rectangle. It is green in case of earliness, red in case of lateness. |
Version History
You can find Version History and Compatibility here.