JQL calculated progress bars?

[David Loszewski]

Hello,

Each issue that we have is assigned a "weight" of 1-4, if an issue is difficult to resolve we assign it a 4, 1 if easy, etc.  I then have a chart on a dashboard that shows how much "weight" each user has assigned to them.   

What I'm trying to do is show a progress bar of some sort or something similar to display our capacity.   So if a user can handle a total weight of 24, and they currently have a weight of 20, I want to display that they have 83% capacity remaining.   I'll also want to display a total capacity for all team members. 

Any ideas on how I can accomplish this?  

[Aron Gombas _Midori_]

Hardcore agile fans will crucify me for this, but why don't you just (ab)use the "Story points" field for this?

It accepts integers and it has dedicated support everywhere (burndown charts, velocity, backlog, board, etc.).

[David Holman]

I don't see anything unsavory about that. The "weight" described is in effect effort, which is what a story point should represent. 

When I first read the question, I assumed the OP was using weight differently than points, but it seems like it would serve the same end.

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @David Loszewski 

Where do you want to display this information?  How would the team behave differently if you had that right now?  

Knowing those things may help the community offer suggestions of how to help.  Thanks!

Kind regards,
Bill

[David Holman]

Hopefully, there's a better solution out there but …

You could use an automation routine to calculate the utilization or remaining capacity in a custom field.

[David Loszewski]

Thanks! I've thought of that, the problem with Jira is there are no "Global" fields.  Fields are assigned to projects.   Ideas on where I would actually place that?

[David Holman]

You can share field schemes across projects, so they're effectively global.