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Understanding Project Timeline

This article explains how to use the project timeline option in Agility.

Overview​

Use the Project Timeline to track portfolio items for a project driven by planned portfolio item start and end dates. If those dates do not exist for a project item, the system defaults to the start and end dates on the portfolio item's project or release.

  • The graphical representation displays a prorated "velocity" of the portfolio items by month.
  • The vertical red line indicates the current date.
  • You can pan horizontally to go back in time to look at portfolio item history or into the future to see planned project details
  • If you want to see the details support the dates shown, click on an item to drill down into the details.
  • The items display in order of priority (established in the Portfolio Tree) so you can see what's most important.

Panning and Zooming In and Out​

By default, the Project Timeline opens centered on the current date, which is represented by a vertical red line. If you want to see a more a more detailed project view, you can use the set of navigation controls Epic_Timeline_Navigation_Tools to the right of the grid.

  • Click the hamburger icon Hamburger icon > Portfolio > Project Timeline

  • Select a project from the Project Navigator.

    • To see a wider or more granular view, click Plus-Signto zoom out or clickMinus-Sign to zoom in.
    • To analyze historical project data, click Backward to scroll back in time or click Forward to scroll forward to analyze planned projects.

Viewing Period Estimates and Swags​

The graph at the bottom of the Project Timeline shows the allocated weekly total of Estimate (rolled up from contained backlog), Swag (from included estimates), or both at the same time.

  • Click the hamburger icon Hamburger icon > Portfolio > Project Timeline

Graph values are driven only by the projects displayed on the timeline. Portfolio Items that are filtered out, not displayed because of missing end dates, or backlog not belonging to a project are not counted in these totals.

  • Select a project from the Project Navigator.

  • Scroll to the bottom of the page. A color-coded graph shows the relationship between Estimate and Swag.

  • Click Show All (default) to see both Estimate and Swag timelines.

    • Click Estimate to see only total weekly project work estimates for the selected time range, or Swag to see only the high-level Swag timeline.
    • Click Hide to remove all timelines.
    • Hover over these timelines to see the rollups of Estimates and Swag for any given week to determine your progress and scheduled workloads.

Using Project Timeline

Project or Program Summary Report

Portfolio Kanban Board