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The Spread Effort toggle spreads the estimated effort across the start and end date timeframe. This
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Projects can be set up completely differently across a Jira instance. The fields that represent dates can also vary across issue type.
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In order to report on dates, the tool needs to know which date fields it should use.
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In order to calculate percentage completion, the tool needs to know which field holds the estimate, the team’s velocity per sprint, and how long a sprint lasts.
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is used to alter the Percentage Completion calculation.
For example, if Spread Effort is turned off, and an issue has a start and end date, then the amount of work will be the number of business days between the start and end date.
If Spread Effort is turned on, then the amount of work will be the number of days of work calculated using the Estimate, Confidence, Sprint Length, Velocity, and Tracks fields.
For more information read Percentage Completion.
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Turn Spread Effort on if the other estimate-based fields are correctly configured for the team. This will typically provide the most accurate percentage completion information. |