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I have a number of cases in my project split between two milestones. The milestone with the earlier completion date only has a handful of cases on it. When I look at the Completion Date (Probability Distribution) report, the graph is identical, regardless of whether I choose the earlier or later milestone. I would expect the later milestone, with its additional tickets, and the fact that developers are assigned to work on cases in the earlier milestone, to have a significantly later completion date estimated.

What gives?

flag	asked Aug 26 2010 at 13:48 David Mitchell 253●1●7

To update this, now I am seeing this update correctly. Is there a cronjob or something that runs to update this? That is pretty frustrating because it isn't entirely clear that changes I make to case-milestone assignments won't have any effect on the reports for a while. Or is there something else going on here? – David Mitchell Aug 29 2010 at 22:08

Rich Armstrong · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-30 14:06:53Z UTC

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The probability distribution is computationally intense, so we only run it daily. You can see immediate effect on the developer timelines, though. That's usually where it's better to see the effect of moving cases around.

answered Aug 30 2010 at 14:06

Rich Armstrong♦♦
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Is there any way to boost the rate at which this calculation is run? (ie. can we make it run 4x more often if we understand the impacts on website response time and are willing to make that sacrifice?) – cdeszaq Aug 30 2010 at 19:05

Ok, that makes sense - the problem with looking at developer timelines for this though is that you don't get an overall picture of when you're likely to be done with a milestone. We are using this for trying to decide which cases belong in the next sprint by moving them in and out of a milestone until the completion date looks good. – David Mitchell Aug 31 2010 at 12:04

There's been feature requests to run daily tasks (like this computation) explicitly rather than overnight. You can do this with a change to the Setting table if you're not on On Demand. There's no current solution for On Demand, I think. I'll check and get back. – Rich Armstrong♦ Aug 31 2010 at 15:19

We are on-demand so it would be nice to have a solution to this problem. – David Mitchell Sep 2 2010 at 11:52

why does my completion date probability distribution not change when I change milestone?

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