Dynamic Progress Roll Up

Progress calculations

Links Hierarchy adds new elements that will allow you to know the status of each issue at a stroke, like:

individual issue progress

issue progress in scope

sprints' and epics' progress

affected by blocks issues and much more

Not only Jira Software (Agile) is supported, Portfolio for Jira is also supported. See the progress of your initiatives and any element of your hierarchy.

Links Hierarchy calculates these elements of the hierarchy:

1. Progress of resolved issues.

2. Progress of the storypoints resolved.

3. Progress roll up.

4. Progress of custom fields resolved and  the individual progress of each issue.

Link Color

The colors of the links help you to know what problems are contributing to the sum of the one issue.

Color	Line	Description
Black		The issue does not contribute to the root issue (there is one outward link at least in the branch connecting the issue with the root which breaks the roll-up progress)
Red		The issue contributes to the root (all the chain of linked issues are inward) and all their contributing children are already loaded in the hierarchy, therefore the total contribution of the branch under the issue is well known
Orange		The issue contributes to the root from more than one way and each way does it partially with the same amount (balanced)
Light red		The issue contributes to the root but not all its children have already be loaded, therefore the real total contribution of the branch is unknown as it might vary when more children are loaded
Yellow		The same that the previous one when the issue contributes from more than one branch

Progress Bars Colors and Individual progress of each issue

You will see different colors in the progress bars. Mousing over color bars will appear pop-up windows with individual progress of issue. Appears in all issues that have time tracking.

Progress of resolved issues

Shows the number of resolved issues in the hierarchy that is being displayed. It appears in the root issue, and in all those issues that contribute to it.

Progress of the history points resolved

Shows the number of history points resolved in the hierarchy that is being viewed. It appears in the root issue, and in all those issues that contribute to it.

Progress roll up (on intermediate levels)

"Links Hierarchy" extends its functionality and provides progress roll up in all issues, and not only in the root issue.

Now you can also see the progress of the issues that influence the issue you are visualizing, allowing you to monitor and better analyze progress.

It shows the progress roll up in all the issues that influence the root issue.

When an issue appears in several places contributing, it contributes to all its ancestors.

In the image, LH-10 contributes to the roads (LH-7, LH-8, LH-1) and (LH-7, LH-9, LH-6, LH-17).

This allows you to see the actual progress of each of the issues that contribute to the root.

When an issue appears in several places contributing, all your appearances are shown with an orange link to indicate that the issue is contributing in different ways.

Cycle detection (SERVER ONLY)

When creating links between issues, it may happen that you create cycles between the issues. In some cases, these cycles do not have functional logic and cause their analysis of progress is not correct.

Now, "Links Hierarchy" helps you detect those cycles.

For example, suppose we have 4 issues (A, B, C, and D)
A is blocked by B.
B is blocked by C.
C is blocked by D.
D is blocked by B.

Which issue should be resolved first? How long would it take to resolve issues B, C and D? 

A cycle appears that does not have functional logic, so these questions do not have an easy answer.

These cases are detected by "Links Hierarchy", and will mark the issues where it occurs with an orange border. You can review each case and decide if it is correct or not.

Progress roll up on cycles

When "Links Hierarchy" detects a cycle, it does not load the descendants indefinitely because it would be an infinite loop. Instead, "Links Hierarchy" warns that the issue was previously shown, and that issue would no longer contribute to the sum.

In these cases, you must take into account that being a hierarchical sum, the intermediate issues from the root issue to the issue detected as a cycle, do not contain the total sum of the cycle.  The sum in the cycle issues should be:

Sum up TALH-12 (B) → (TALH-12 + TALH-13 + TALH-14)  

Sum up TALH-13 (C)→ (TALH-12 + TALH-13 + TALH-14) 

Sum up TALH-14 (D) → (TALH-12 + TALH-13 + TALH-14)

Being a hierarchical sum, "Links Hierarchy" calculates:

Sum up TALH-14 → (TALH-14 + TALH-13 + TALH-12) OK  OK

Sum up TALH-12 → (TALH-12 + TALH-13)  MISSING

Sum up TALH-13 → (TALH-13)  MISSING

In the cycle issues, the total sums will appear in the root issues:

Progress of custom fields resolved