Estimate the end date of your initiatives

Staying on top of multiple cross-team engineering initiatives can be challenging. Yet, many internal departments rely on engineering leaders to provide frequent updates on the status and progress of strategically important projects. The problem is that simply looking at an ongoing initiative isn’t going to help you determine when it will be completed.

That’s why we’ve launched a new initiative forecast feature that allows you to estimate the end date of an initiative based on three inputs:

• Total number of issues
• Average issue cycle time
• Average number of issues in progress

You can adjust the values of all three inputs to understand how the estimated end date will change if you add or remove issues, increase the average cycle time of an issue, or start working on more issues simultaneously. The UI will offer suggestions for each input based on your historical data, including previous activity in the initiative and data from the most active team.

Once you’re happy with your forecast, you can save it to the initiative overview page where everyone in your organization can see it. You can always go back and edit the forecast later as you learn more.

To create your first forecast, navigate to the overview page of any ongoing initiative and click create forecast.

More improvements:

• The code review Slack notification now includes the number of comments in the PR.
• The past four full quarters have been added as presets to all time selectors throughout the app.
• Hovering over the PR throughput chart under Insights will now activate a tooltip with the number of contributors per week and the number of PRs per contributor.