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Status Unlikely to implement
Categories Releases
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 13, 2018
Merged idea

This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit APP-I-6989 Set Release Capacity on Parking Lots to 0.

Features in Parking Lot should contribute 100% of their Effort immediately to "Release work remaining over capacity" Merged

I have been building reports and charts to show investors and top management how much capacity is missing. While I was successful with ordinary releases, utilising the "Release work remaining over capacity" field, I hit a major obstacle with Parking Lots:

It is not possible to enter the release capacity on Parking Lots. If it was, I would set it to 0, because that reflects the reality - we do not have any resources available for things waiting in the backlog. I wish the system would default it to 0, or allowed me to change it.

As a result, all features parked in the Parking Lots look in reports as "green" - all is fine, we do not need more resources. The field "Release work remaining over capacity" is always 0. It should be the opposite - these features will never be delivered unless more resources are added. Is that not the whole point of the backlog? A place to park all the requirements we cannot address at the moment due to capacity limitations?

We would like a fix to the calculation of "Release work remaining over capacity" field. Example: 3 features in parking lot with respective Feature Remaining Effort = 5, 2 and 1 would result in "Release work remaining over capacity" = 8.

 

Thank you