7pace Timetracker's Iterations Page

Use the Iterations page to evaluate how your sprint is progressing, what items are being worked on and by whom, your effort, tracked time for parent and child items, and pace.

On this page: 1 Introduction 2 Iterations page at-a-glance 3 Iterations page columns 4 Assign a budget to an iteration 5 Assign a budget to a work item

On this page: 1 Introduction 2 Iterations page at-a-glance 3 Iterations page columns 4 Assign a budget to an iteration 5 Assign a budget to a work item

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Introduction

The Iterations page provides you with a quick snapshot of how your sprint is progressing. Here, you can view the tracked time details of work items according to the specific iterations to which they belong. Featuring a sprint-oriented view of the time spent by your team, the Iterations page is similar to the look and feel of the Backlog page of Azure DevOps, but with more robust information. The Iterations page allows you to assign budgets to whole releases or single work items and provides you with a unique window into the following:

How is the sprint running?
What work items are currently being worked on and by whom?
Which work items were moved to a different iteration?
What is progressing well in the sprint and what requires our attention?
How accurate were our team's estimations?
What is the team's pace on particular work items or the sprint as a whole?

Iterations page at-a-glance

ID	Description

ID	Description
1	The list of all iterations from your DevOps project settings.
2	The name of the iteration you currently have selected.
3	The timeframe or date range of the current iteration. The date range appears only if you have configured it for the iteration. Otherwise, "No Iteration Dates" displays.
4	Options to view the tracked time details of work items within an iteration: Expand One Level (+ ): Expand the work items list by one level at a time. The top level work items are expanded first and after that, the child work items. Collapse One Level (-): Collapse the work items list by one level at a time. The child work items are collapsed first and after that, the top level items are collapsed. View by Iteration Date Range Only: Displays the total tracked time of the work items according to the iteration timeframe. If you set this field to ON, the total tracked time for work items is shown only by the iteration period. If you set this field to OFF, total time for all work items is shown. If you did not configure a date range for the iteration, this field is disabled and set to NA. View Moved Items: Displays the work items that were a part of the selected iteration at the beginning of the iteration, but were later moved to different one. If a date range was not configured for the iteration, this field is disabled and set to NA. The start of the iteration is computed as: `Iteration Start Date + 1 day 00:00AM == midnight next day`
5	Total time tracked for all work items from the selected iteration. Additionally, the total tracked time for work items in a completed state and work items in an incomplete state is also displayed.
6	The Total Story Points (total effort) of all work items from the selected iteration. Additionally, you can view the total effort/story points for the work items in completed and incomplete state. This field displays the total only if you configure the Pace Calculation option on the Settings > Work Item Automation page. If this isn't configured, the Total Effort field displays the status as Inactive.
7	The budget inherited from the parent item or specifically assigned to the iteration. If there is no budget assigned to the iteration, this field displays None. For more information about assigning budget to an iteration, click here.

Iterations page columns

The following table details the columns found on the Iterations page.

Column	Description

Column	Description
ID	The unique ID of the work item within DevOps Server/Services.
Title	The title of the task within DevOps Server/Services.
Iteration Path	The path of the iteration. This column also displays the new iteration path for work items that are moved from the selected iteration.
Assigned To	The name of the person to whom the work item is assigned.
State	The current state of the work item.
Effort	The number of user story/complexity points (effort) estimated for the work item.
Tracked	The total time tracked for the corresponding work item. There are two states - tracked within last 2 hours and 48 hours. Hover your mouse over your entry to see the state of the work item: Tracked within the last two (2) hours: Tracked within 48 hours:
Tracked Summary	The total tracked time for the parent work item and all its child work items.
Pace	The pace at which the task is performed. This number is calculated by dividing the number of tracked hours by estimated effort.
Budget	Displays the current budget assigned to the work item. Budgets are usually assigned to iterations or even whole releases. However, if you don't want to bill a customer for certain work items in a sprint/iteration, you can simply exclude them from one budget (e.g. "Company X Billable") and move them to a different budget instead (e.g. "Company X Non-Billable") by clicking on the "Budget" column dropdown arrow next to each work item row.