Hi. Need some advice on earned value calculation as I am stucked. I use 0/100% rule on my project. There might be cases. when some tasks take less time we expect so we pick up the next tasks not initially planned. And here we start to work on them but not finish (in progress). How better to calculate planned and spent in this cases? To be more specific, in sprint 1 we pick the next task that is estimated as 16h (not initially planned) and spent 7h in sprint 1 and remaining 9h in sprint 2. So, what should be then PV for sprint 1 with respect to this task and what should be planned and actual with respect to this task in sprint 2? Saving Changes...
If you have estimations for each task, base PV on each task. When you start a sprint. take credit for 50% of the PV for each task included. For each task you complete in the sprint, take 100% credit for that task. For each task that is carried over from sprint 1 to 2, you take half credit in sprint 1 and half in sprint 2.
It is not exact, but it is easy and much closer than 0 or 100%. Saving Changes...
1. Having work items span sprints is not a good practice. It might happen occasionally but should be the exception not the rule.
2. Pure EV is not really suitable for this scenario as PV is based on the work which should have been done by a given point in time and yet with an adaptive approach, there is no baseline of when specific work items would be completed.
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Stéphane ParentSelf Employed / Semi-retired| Leader MakerPrince Edward Island, Canada
I suggest you break the tasks to align with your sprint. In this case you should have one task in sprint 1 and another in sprint 2.
The bigger question is why is it unplanned? Sprint planning should have set your sprint backlog. Anything that comes in after, should go into the product backlog for grooming. Saving Changes...
Thank you for all you answers.
As of Stéphane's question why it is not planned the explanation is that we planned the sprint exactly capacity allows but one task for example took less time (PV = 16h, AC = 10h, variance = 6h) so not to idle we might to start on the next prioterized/groomed task (normally we have prepared backlog for 1-2 sprints ahead) Saving Changes...
